Dark One
The Tainted Dogma
Those of us posting on this forum are certainly more biased towards being more dedicated and spending more money, and maybe that causes us to overestimate the amount to which others feel the same way. I wouldn't want to see John say "yeah, we're doing HC4, and taking your advice to triple the ticket prices", and then have 40 people show up.
While I completely understand what you're saying here, and while there may be a bit of overstating based on the diehards that frequent the forum, I honestly wouldn't worry too much about it if I were John based on what I stated earlier:
Dark One said:Hell, the majority of costs for most folks attending consists of airfare/hotel room/festival merch/cd's/alcohol, etc., so spending a little more for festival tickets isn't going to break the deal for the majority of attendees.
I simply can't imagine $75 ticket prices being a deal breaker for those who spend so much more just for travel, lodging and non-band entertainment/sustenance for the weekend. I think this is especially true now that the die hard (and mostly non-local) fanbase is more or less wholly established.
Jason