so worlds has pretty much been the biggest cluster**** of an event i have ever been to
obviously there was the whole not telling people it'd be closed to the public until last week fiasco. since i live close by this wasnt a HUGE deal for me but i feel for the people who booked tickets from far away. paid for a pokken lcq spot, then find out 2 days before that you only get a pass for friday for that. ok...
go on thursday to pick up my friday pass, check in for pokken lcq, and buy stuff at the pokemon center. decide not to actually do the lcq because im not feeling super great friday and my work kinda needs me, plus tbh i am not good at pokken and likely would have been destroyed. find out about the special event pokemon and come back saturday with my friends who want to buy stuff. find out theyre giving out passes for saturday at 8 in the morning but i live in suburban hell and the earliest i could make it with public transport is 9:00, when everything is already gone.
THEN find out despite nearly everywhere saying you dont need any credentials for the side events, you actually do need a pass of some sort, doesnt matter what day but you need something. so glad i brought my friday one bc i almost left it at home but decided to just throw it in my purse anyway. but my friends dont have passes so they cant get into anything. and the security was really rude and looked at us like we were crazy morons. some people say they got leftover friday passes (so expired but will let you into the side events) by asking the help desk nicely. they say they have none left and cant help us even though i tell them i live in the suburbs and wouldnt even be able to make it by the time theyre handing out the sunday passes.
luckily i got squirtle from the side events after my friends left and a nice dude i talked to while getting squirtle offered to go get charmander and bulbasaur for me, so there's that. but after meeting up with serebii he told me the pokken room and other stuff was basically empty so it really pisses me off they limited it like this. and it seems kinda crappy that the pokemon center was the ONLY part open to everyone. like dont get me wrong im a sucker for merch and definitely bought quite a bit, but it makes me feel like oh we cant accommodate fans who came all the way out here, but here, come buy our (even more than normally) overpriced stuff and put more money in our pockets!!
i just hope they learned from this and are more transparent next year.