memento_mori can probably shed some light on it, he went from switzerland

I hope you base your trip on the interest in coding and not gaming.

i would have different intentions for the trip, and i would go with mates not alone. im just crazy about id, last year i bought an ipod for id mobile iOS games, and an old nintendo ds for orcs & elves.

"im just crazy about id" is an understatement it seems.

the flight by itself is probably over 1kE, food hotel etc 400E more i guess, even the cheapest stuff will be around 1500E

flight is around 600 eur from de

fu i live in a 3rd world country

On a german's money :)

LooL

Why pay 1500 Euros to sit next to smelly nerds who play minecraft all day? Most quakecon stuff is posted on youtube for all of us to view anyway.

To experience instead of consuming? Why bother to deal with girls for sex? Most stuff is posted on youporn for all of us to view anyway.

Quakecon might be worth it if a good portion of the people at the BOYC were actually playing quake and other fast paced fps games. From what i've seen from streams,there's alot of Minecraft, terreria, LoL, world of warcraft etc..... and a small minority are playing arena fps. Just doesn't seem like its a celebration of quake anymore.

it really wasnt when I was there several years ago either, there were some hardcore ppl whı I played ctf with but other then that I didint see much quake going on at all.

My flight was about 1k euro, and hilton anatole rates was about 172dollars per night inc tax. Monday - Sunday (shared room with a friend) so just flight and accommodation was about 1400 euros, but that does not include anything else.

I can give you a top-end estimate. I'm pretty sure one could reduce the costs quite a lot with some effort. In my case I cared more about being comfortable more than anything else.

Flight: My flight was about 1200 euro (I wanted to fly from my city). There is definitely a big margin of improvement here, booking in advance, traveling to better airports, etc.

Hotel: I stayed at the hilton anatole (where the event takes place), which is *very* expensive. Including taxes, and possibly internet (free only in the lobby/restaurants) you have to add 20/30$ to the 150$ for a night.

In my case, I shared the room with czm for four nights (340$), plus stayed an extra night alone (170$). Overall, more than 500$. There are cheaper hotels nearby, but I was a lazy fuck and went the easy way.

Food: it can be easily 40$ per day, especially if you eat at the restaurants inside the Anatole. There are very cheap places (dennis) nearby, but I cannot cope with cheap fast food, so I played the little lord.

I still did not check but I think overall I spent about 2000$, minimizing my planning/discomfort.

True that Anatole is a little bit more expensive than the other hotels around. But i would say that that 172 per room and night was pretty affordable, especially when you look at the quality of the hotel :) Im still in Dallas. Currently in downtown , paying around 100 dollars a night here, still pretty good. In comparison I've payed about 200 dollars a night for my shitty 3 star hotel at dreamhack :) so compared to that anatole is pretty good .

Yes, the hotel is pretty fancy. I personally did not care too much, but I understand that if one wants to travel cheap, that's a no go.

so no expense for alcohol and drugs? thats probably + 500 bucks more ;)))

depending the boat (somali pirates might even transport you for free)

But will ask about some butt pleasure? :<

I'd wait until arriving at the analhole hotel motel for that.

free as well must it be