"Just an FYI, in case this wasn't already patently obvious: database marketing is what I do for a profession."
yeah, I kind of figured that out by the lengthy responses I've gotten so far and the detailed knowledge of the industry. :) I totally understand that they are trying to market towards who plays more, since that's just the way it works in business. My big point earlier was about the registration, but we already went through that.
I'm still not sold though that they determine the stops solely based on which areas of the country buy the most games. King of Prussia might be a nice area with a good amount of income and spending(I've driven through it when I visited Philly and DC/Baltimore, and it's a nice area with a good amount of retail), but I really doubt that it gets more pokemon purchases than New York. Even if it somehow did get more, I again doubt it's that much more to warrant a stop over NYC. Same thing goes with Fremont and Los Angeles, I don't see why Fremont, a city with around 200,000 people(about 1.5 million if you include all of Alameda County), gets a tournament stop over Los Angeles, a city with approximately 4 million people(almost 10 million for the entire county), and a large amount of video game industry locales, etc. A city that has 20 times the amount of people in the actual city compared to the other doesn't get a stop? That doesn't sound right at all, unless they intentionally avoid places with high amounts of population(for whatever reason that might be, who knows).
Of course this is just my guess, since I don't have access to those kind of pokemon game sales numbers, but I think there is something else at work besides game sales.
yeah, I kind of figured that out by the lengthy responses I've gotten so far and the detailed knowledge of the industry. :) I totally understand that they are trying to market towards who plays more, since that's just the way it works in business. My big point earlier was about the registration, but we already went through that.
I'm still not sold though that they determine the stops solely based on which areas of the country buy the most games. King of Prussia might be a nice area with a good amount of income and spending(I've driven through it when I visited Philly and DC/Baltimore, and it's a nice area with a good amount of retail), but I really doubt that it gets more pokemon purchases than New York. Even if it somehow did get more, I again doubt it's that much more to warrant a stop over NYC. Same thing goes with Fremont and Los Angeles, I don't see why Fremont, a city with around 200,000 people(about 1.5 million if you include all of Alameda County), gets a tournament stop over Los Angeles, a city with approximately 4 million people(almost 10 million for the entire county), and a large amount of video game industry locales, etc. A city that has 20 times the amount of people in the actual city compared to the other doesn't get a stop? That doesn't sound right at all, unless they intentionally avoid places with high amounts of population(for whatever reason that might be, who knows).
Of course this is just my guess, since I don't have access to those kind of pokemon game sales numbers, but I think there is something else at work besides game sales.
