>>77652311On reconsidering it, the only assumption that I might be way out on is scaling down the venue and production costs based on capacity.
Otherwise I don't think we're in conflict here, just looking from different perspectives. You're considering the gross revenue per ticket without assigning the cost of production anywhere, while I'm talking from the perspective of how much of a cut they get per ticket given the costs of hosting someone in person versus online.
The main point here is that if they can get the same number of tickets sold at significantly cheaper venue and production costs then they'll make more money overall.
I think it was for Connect The World (potentially may have been New Underworld Order), but my main memory of this is Mori shilling the streaming tickets and saying how important it was for people who couldn't attend live to buy streaming tickets for them to actually turn a profit on the event, so it's always stuck in my head how high the operating costs must be, even assuming she didn't know what she was talking about and wasn't accounting for merch sales and everything else.
