Post
Tue Apr 18, 2017 2:22 pm
#77
by Talvieno
I would expect that the amount of time and money expenditure required for Josh to hold an Official Limit Theory Party on a different continent would be almost prohibitive of a party happening at all. In other words: at some point, the difficulty may be so great that it becomes not worth the effort regardless of the percentage of people in a particular area, and would make more sense to simply not have a party, depending on the location of both the developer and the largest concentration of fans.
Of course, I'm not in charge of Josh's party, but that's about how I see it. I imagine Josh will be incredibly busy before/after release. I can't imagine him having the time to set all of this up, especially if there was the difficulty of holding it on an entirely different continent than the game was originally developed. It makes much more sense to simply say, "If you want to be at the party, come be at the party", because this lessens the difficulty by spreading it among a large number of people in the same way that it's easier to walk on thin ice if you place your feet farther apart, thus further distributing your weight over a larger area.
It just makes sense. You never hear of someone holding a launch party anywhere other than near their studio, likely for this exact reason. If Josh lived in Europe, I would not at all be surprised to learn I would be unable to get to the launch party unless I lived in Europe or was willing to travel there.