I'm sure there must be people who subscribed just to get this to happen.
Why no uproar over cancelling the World Tour?
Did this actually happen?
Anyway, if the choice is between having the world tour and GB staying in the black, there isn't really a debate to be had.
I figured they were going to cancel it. Not enough people were signing up. I hope to go to several conventions next year so I'm not that disappointed.
If they didn't hit the numbers then it wouldn't have happened anyways. Sometimes you gotta put things out of its misery.
I was really disappointed to hear it was cancelled, being Australian and all. It sucks so much they cancelled it. :(
Go ahead and make a riot at your nearest US embassy then. Or just maybe, not enough people cared in the first place.
There were a few people in the comments on that article that were disappointed/said they signed up specifically for the World Tour, but I think general consensus is that it wasn't a very good idea to begin with.
Because the people that were disappointed by it already commented on the appropriate article instead of making a bunch of threads.
Why no uproar? Maybe because it would have been only slightly cool for a small number of people but mostly a colossal waste of money that could (and now will) be spent on providing more and better content for all subscribers (and non-subscribers) to enjoy.
That's why.
Did any of the subscription stuff actually happen as advertised in the end? The bombcast didn't end up getting split up, the World Tour got dropped, the Happy Hour stuff didn't stay member-exclusive... did the old videos end up getting HD'd? I have no idea.
I personally don't care about any of those things (and most of those decisions were ultimately right), but you know, be smarter about this stuff before announcing it so you don't have to keep backing out of it.
It was always up in the air whether or not they would actually go through with it, and Dave even said the idea was just one of those silly drunken rants that makes it to the next morning. Plus, the odds of them making it to my state were extremely unfavorable so I personally never got my hopes up about it.
Maybe I'll just have to settle for buying Dave a beer if he makes his way over here to Maryland for Christmas or something
Getting people to sign up just to see some internet dudes appear in your country always sounded a bit silly to me. Glad they thought about it again and realised the nonsense. They should still check out other countries when they get the chance though, but in a more realistic scale.
I would have gained no benefit from it since I live in the US and not any of the places they'd visit. I felt the money would have been much better used on the site to benefit all. But I said nothing because I'm privileged to have access to them at any PAX or when I drive to San Francisco and stare at their offices through my binoculars. So I'm both happy it was canceled and sorry for people who live far away and can't join in the fun.
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