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Video Games Live National Tour Canceled
Plaguefox writes "Video Games Live ('The first major North American concert tour featuring music from some of the biggest video games combined with video footage, lasers, lights, and live action') announced today that they have cancelled all tour dates in their national tour except for two scheduled for this weekend in Seattle and Vancouver. Fans across the country who have paid for tickets to these events must now manually request refunds and suffer convenience charges. The event was cancelled 'because ticket sales were slow and did not reflect the great interest expected.' This news comes after a previous tour-wide cancellation(with similar convenience charges) when the creators decided to increase tour stops and venue seating to match what they perceived as vastly more interest than they anticipated. As one person said: 'I've already paid enough convenience fees and facility fees to see a broadway musical. I wish I had.'"
Assuming you paid with a credit card...Call your credit card company, explain that the concert has been cancelled and that you have not been offered a full refund. They will ask if you tried to work this out with the merchant. Tell them you can't seem to contact anyone at the merchant location. More than likely your credit card company will immediately credit your account (provisionally) and file a dispute with the merchant's processor. The other plus side of this option is that the merchant will most likely be handed a 'chargeback fee' from their processor. Vengeance is yours!
There was a lot of back-patting going on, for which I blame on Tommy Talarico. I still can't believe music from crap games like Advent Rising (Talarico did the music for this) and Headhunter was included in a concert that also features Mario Brothers and Halo.
My experience was further soured by sitting in front of a group of ignorant boys who referred to themselves as gamers just because they hopped on the Halo bandwagon. I'm not trying to put down the Halosexuals, but these guys were whining through-out the whole concert, "Halo! Where's Halo? OMG I wanna hear Halo!" and then they would proceed to start singing the gregorian chant that starts the theme song. In between whining, they were trying to impress each other with their gaming "knowledge." when clips of MYST were shown on screen, one of them shouted to the other, "Oh! I played that on the Playstation! It was SO awesome, but really really bloody." When Castlevania was shown on screen, another one called it Mario Brothers. I would understand it if these guys were younger and grew up after Mario Brothers, but they were at least in their mid twenties.
Then there was some sound equipment debacle when the Halo song was finally played (as the grand finale) and Steve Vai's guitar wasn't hooked up to the amp at all.
I believe the real reason the concert was cancelled was that too many people realized how much of a tool Tommy Talarico really is and demanded their money back.