Thread: DGA ceasing all Lans until further notice

Gamers,

It has been bought to my attention that the cost of the Greek School to hire is $600 per lan.

Effectively in order to cover this cost we need to ensure we have at least 30 gamers at the event and then an additional $75 to cover the insurance. From my understanding the last DGA event was less than 20 people.

I cannot confirm this to be exact but neverless there were not 30 present hence we now appear to owe the Greek School some dollars that we need to make up before the next lan.

So as the current President and with the support of the vice president I have only one real option here unless things improve.

There will be no further lans sanctioned or allowed at the Greek School using the DGA name. As an organisation and a registered association we need to protect ourselves and ensure we remain within the confines of the regulations.

The idea of the DGA registration page is for the organisers to analyse if there are enough participants to cover the costs of the DGA. We run a non profit organisation. The DGA registration page shows 29 registered participants and I know from the past that we usually lose between 5 and 15% due to other commiments.

If you want to run a DGA event, you will either contact myself or Unseen for approval, either way we are both to be informed.

If you continue and run it anyway, you will be held accountable for the losses and make up the shortfall yourselves.

Myself and other admins and commitee members have said this before that unless the gamers and participants come back, the lans are not cost effective and I for one do not want to dip into my own pocket hundreds of dollars just to cover an event that should have been cancelled if the numbers did not add up.

I will need to call a meeting in the very near future to discuss the future of DGA as it may result in having one lan per year if we dont get the support.

I dont say this lightly so please read and understand the reasons why we need to take these steps.

If we dont have the numbers or support our hands are tied.

We need 40 people. If the numbers are not there in the DGA signup page prior to the lan, it wont go ahead. There are no exceptions.

Sponge

$600 to hire a venue, that's an incrediable amount! I had no idea it was that costly. Can we investigate alternatives? Or has this road already been travelled?
I've never been to one of the DGA lans, but always assumed that loads of people went along.

you will find alternative will actually be more expensive(well if you want aircon).

Originally Posted by lrinaldi

$600 to hire a venue, that's an incrediable amount! I had no idea it was that costly. Can we investigate alternatives? Or has this road already been travelled?
I've never been to one of the DGA lans, but always assumed that loads of people went along.

600 is a good price
you look at venues that are similar eg, the cyprus hall in marrara/karama its 1200

venue cost isnt the issue here.

It is people through the door. IE numbers per lan .. which atm, isnt enough to make DGA a viable lan.

damn. greek school went up to 600!

yep

A sad day indeed, that DGA ceases operation indefinately. Anyone have that old pic of Howie with his shirt off? How about me and my hair? How about the first Evo? *nostalgic tear

LAN's are a fleeting craze, as I was saying on the |nAp| forums in relation to the comparatively tiny attendance at Valhalla in SA (180 people vs their old 600+ people monsters 3 years ago)...

Originally Posted by rec

I think truth of the matter is that LAN is dying. Higher speed internet connections at home, plus a lack of truly brilliant games (and/or older gamers resigning to a jaded outlook regarding games) are contributing factors.

It seems newer, younger gamers aren't finding the concept of a LAN as riviting as we all once did. As older gamers stop going, newer ones aren't filling their boots quick enough.

We're seeing this trend of smaller-numbers at LAN parties all around Australia. Queensland's QGL shutting its doors was the first big sign.

And as Unseen then pointed out; people are also getting lazier. Sure we've got LCD screens and wireless peripherals, but it's still becoming too much of a chore for people (packing it all up, setting it up, packing it up, setting it up).

I never minded moving my gear really.
The biggest thing that killed LAN's for me (well, one of two reasons) was the lack of amazing MP games.

Back in the day ADSL was new on the scene and spending the weekend catching up with mates, talking shit, then blowing them away in CS - man, what else did you need?!

Combine that with my MMO fanatasism and most of my gaming buddies who stopped attending, there was no attraction remaining.

wow killed the lan