Any chance of remembering players other than in the USA?

[omegaamoe]

<p>Would be nice for a slightly less insular approach to these fanfairs </p><p>Not all players are in the USA</p>

[Tur]

While I can't officially respond for SOE, I do know that when moving a large event such as Fan Faire outside of the states, you run into a number of issues including game licensing, music licensing, shipping equipment, unions, taxes, insurance and simply being familiar with the location and customs. This doesn't mean they will never host an event overseas, just right now it's just not financially or logistically feasible to do so. What I would recommend is putting together your own event.  If you're tired of waiting for SOE, do what our players in MxO are doing and put together your own Meet & Greet: <a href="http://mxoliveevents.proboards37.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://mxoliveevents.proboards37.com/</a> =)

[Senlae]

<p>Last we heard (2 years ago), Ubisoft had the European rights to EverQuest so Sony couldn't host a Fan Faire in Europe. </p><p><a href="http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/message?board.id=Fanfaire&message.id=2313&query.id=3829#M2313" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq...y.id=3829#M2313</a> </p>

[Ashlanne]

<p>Perzephone was nice enough to find this post from Jen....</p><hr /><p>FanFaireJen wrote:</p><p>Hello All,</p><p>First let me thank all of you for your votes and opinions.  It is always a very hard choice for us when picking a Fan Faire city, because there are so many of you from all over, and it definitely helps when you vote and/or voice your opinions.</p><p>That being said, please know that we have checked virtually every city in the nation that can meet our criteria.  For those who are unaware, our criteria are as follows:</p><p>1.  Convention space that will fit at least 700 people (this is harder to find than you might think).  While there are many great destinations with beautiful hotels, many of them have little or no function space in which to hold the myriad of events that make up a Fan Faire.</p><p>2.  Hotels that will give us a decent room rate (ideally, $125 per night or less).  We search tons of cities each time, and lots of the cities that you all request simply have no availability during desirable Fan Faire dates, and if they do, they are charging an arm and a leg for room nights.</p><p>3.  Hotels that actually have availability during desirable times to have a Fan Faire (i.e., not during May, because we have E3 and can't do both events in the same month).  We generally try to shoot for Spring time (February, March, April), as that seems to be the most popular with y'all -- but that is also peak season for most desirable destinations, and so hotels are unwilling to give us bargain hotel rates, which means that the Fan Faire host hotel rooms will cost AT LEAST $200 per night, not including taxes.</p><p>4.  Destinations that are affordable to travel to and get around in (excuse the prepositions).  Places like New York City and Atlantic City have historically come back to us with sky-high room rates, not to mention that things like getting around in Manhattan, parking (if available at all), takings cabs into the city from JFK or Newark, or flying into Atlantic City and getting there, are enormously expensive and time consuming when you add it up.  Most NYC hotels also don't have the type of function space we are looking for.  Believe me, I LOVE NYC, and ALWAYS look.    I'd love to have a Fan Faire there and will definitely jump on it if I get the chance.    But generally, we look at places with big airports / hubs, that aren't too far from the venue.</p><p>5.  Destinations that are new and different from previous Fan Faires.  We have done Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Seattle, Atlanta, New Orleans, San Francisco and more.  We try to be "Faire" to everybody by hopping around as much as possible while keeping things as inexpensive as possible.</p><p>When you add all of these things up, the list of potential venues gets pretty small.  We have checked places like DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Memphis, Reno / Tahoe, Raleigh-Durham, Omaha, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Phoenix, Miami, St. Paul, etc., etc., and none of them came back with viable offers.  The list we gave for the poll is the best of the best (and even then, you'll notice some of our criteria weren't met -- like the room rate for Orlando, or the dates for Vegas).</p><p>Also, many of you might wonder why we don't just rent space at a Convention Center and let Fan Faire attendees deal with hotel rooms on their own...  </p><p>First of all, Convention Centers require a minimum amount of people to make things exclusive, or else they will break down our space each day and force us to share with others.  We do not meet that minimum, and therefore would not have the option for things such as exclusive banquet space, Live Quest space, vendor space, etc., without having to tear down and rebuild each day.  We need to be able to take over a large amount of space exclusively for at least 72 hours.  Also, if we solely book convention space at a Convention Center, we cannot force "rent control" at surrounding hotels -- which means that, as hotel rooms sell out in the area, late-comers to Fan Faire will likely be forced into exorbitant hotel rates.  Basically any hotel in the area can charge you whatever they want.</p><p>Hopefully this helps clarify things a little.</p><p>Happy Voting!!!!  </p>

[Sassums]

<p>Wisconsin Dells meets those requirements, heck one of the Resorst, or Hotel, what ever they call themselves now, is either America's or the World's largest indoor waterpark, its HUGE! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Im sure that would be a nice perk to go along with the whole deal <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  </p><p>The Kalahari Resort I think is its "official" name.</p>

[Fitzroy_EQ-Valor]

Ever consider Toronto , Ontario or Vancouver, British Columbia ? There are a fair portion of Canadians that play Everquest ... Over countless FFs and you have never considered a Canadian site to hold it /boggle

[Blackgua]

<cite>Fitzroy_EQ-Valoran wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ever consider Toronto , Ontario or Vancouver, British Columbia ? There are a fair portion of Canadians that play Everquest ... Over countless FFs and you have never considered a Canadian site to hold it /boggle</blockquote>Just because we haven't had one somewhere doesn't mean it hasn't been considered. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />