This is much a thank you to my fellow Freaks as well as Sideshow.
To Sideshow: The past nine days were fun as hell. "IT Collects..." was fantastic, the deals were, well, deals, the contests were fun and the prizes were FANTASTIC! Putting on an event like this is no small feat and you deserve every bit of praise you get. You've given us the closest thing to an online Con as it gets, and it's a unique experience that cannot be found anywhere else.
Some suggestions for next year:
1) Enough with the random page giveaways! Or at least scale them back a notch. I don't think there is one person who thinks they are fun.
(though I could be wrong) Maybe put the random
gift card or freebie up there, but don't announce it. Just let some Joe stumble across it.
2) MORE MORT!!!!!!!
3) Bring back the scavenger hunt! That was one fun thing to look forward to every day that I think a lot of people enjoyed.
4) The call-in contests from previous years were fun, can we do that again?
5) For the love of God, ANNOUNCE PREORDER TIMES!!! You don't have to announce the product, you can still put it out at 3:00 AM (I think the International folks enjoy this) and you can still put contests and freebies out at random intervals. But please, don't toy with us when it comes to your great products! (no pun intended)
6) Don't allow Dusty to take off during Spook.
7) More VIP chats! We love that Chris, Marc, Dennis, and Alex all babysat us for a while, but it would be great to have more formal Q&A's (Like with Sideshow Q)
To my fellow Freaks (especially the banweeweeounts): It was so much fun to "hang" with you all during chat! I learned the art of the re-shower, among other things.
Everyone had such a fun attitude and things got silly, but never out of hand. It was so nice to interact with you guys without discussing politics (which is something that is increasingly hard to do on this board)
To Chris: Next year, it's F'N on. You better eat your grits. :maul