[aeontech]

> - With reduced pre-sale tickets available, there will be increased pressure on main-sale tickets.

pre-sale tickets were always a much smaller percentage than main sale though, and were always priced significantly higher. So, they were bringing in a more affluent populace than the average burner.

> - With increased pressure on main-sale tickets, the percentage on first time attendees will skew downward even more, I believe around 30-30% of attendees on avg within the last couple years are first timers.

The pressure has been sky-high for years now. That's why main sale always sells out within an hour or less. That's also why so many theme camps had real issues in the last few years actually being able to get their core members in to make the camps even possible to run (and, I assume, that is the issue that DGS is meant to alleviate).

I honestly doubt that the theme camp participation is going to significantly change due to this. Open camping is still the vast, vast majority of the attendees. Running or participating in a theme camp is a ton of work that most people are not able or willing to do, and I'd be very surprised if that changed in any statistically significant way. But I guess we'll see!