Okay, I guess you've given me my ounce of transparency with the prices. Cool.

But as of NOW you've got less than 90 hours until the payment plan cutoff, and seeing as how this thread kind of worked, how about 70,000 Tons of Transparency because people need that payment plan to BOOK! CHOP CHOP!

Yeah I'm going with it won't. Too much bullshit this year.

I have no idea how any company can have such a bad communication strategy. If your customers are getting angry du to your lack of communication that IS bad. And if it sells out in the end it doesn't matter. Why would they worry? Short of writing 365 different messages on the banner saying "the crui...

Andy, Staff members. You have less than 6 days to get your shit together. If you want people to be able to actually use the payment plan with YOUR stated cutoff date of SEPTEMBER 25TH , then within the next ~140 hours, you have to: Probably make a soon post, probably make a forum post, announce at l...

Right now, no updates can be shrugged off as "Oh, Andy is just going balls to the wall with his silly #SOON antics this year! haha!" The wait hasn't actually hurt anyone yet. Aside from Australians and people from other distant countries who care about the lineup as a reason to book. It hasn't hurt...

I agree with Statsman right now. I doubt they'll be changing the payment plan date or changing it from a 4mth to a 3mth or anything, the PR disaster from that would be astronomically worse than anything they've done so far. Right now, no updates can be shrugged off as "Oh, Andy is just going balls t...

God damn I hope Andy is supplying UMC staff with free speed/caffeine/energy drinks. Because with 10 days to go now, if and when bookings finally open, no-one working bookings at UMC is gonna get any sleep if they want to process all those bookings before Sept. 25! I like how the first thing you hop...

Something HAS to happen tonight, right? 115 days left exactly?

:(

You made me jump out of my chair at work and now I look like an idiot lmao.

Gratch wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:38 am

The FB bot/troll posted this today, in case anyone missed it.

Yes, the Payment Plan will be available for when tickets go on sale :) We can't wait to see you on board!

Not quite sure how that’s gonna work.

Technically if tickets go on sale on September 24th at 11:59:59 they aren't lying.

There is only death in this forum ... Tiki108 is kaput Will the reaper reach ShoreSlayer? Only time will tell!! RIP :death: March 2nd jaimie38 - all 60 bands March 28th Castroh March 31st cowboy71 April 12th jodionline April 15th Slayergeek April 28th Jotunheimr April 30th downvod May 1st Marmotte ...

Here’s my working theory. Whichever big name band (or bands) they had lined up backed out at the last minute. So they’re either trying to figure out how to get them back, or scrambling to find replacements that would be worthy of headliner status for a “milestone” event in Round X. As a result, I’m...

cegr80 wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 10, 2019 5:14 pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDYYYY BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ....

CHOP, CHOP!

CHOP FUCKING CHOP MY DUDE

16 days to the four-payment-plan cutoff of Sept 25. It is more and more looking like there will be no gold-silver-public deliniation this year. The following VERY TIGHT timeline only JUST fits in to 16 days, even if announcements start today! *Announce bands* *bit of a break - at least 24 hours?* *...

Not even a "4 months to go!" post.. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

How are other non-American's faring with the currency rates? If it wasn't bad enough that flights to the USA in early January appear to be much more expensive than they typically are in late January, the exchange rate against the $USD keeps dropping :( The Australian Dollar exchange rate has droppe...

However, I did message the 70k Facebook page to request a band (yes even though I know that's not how it's done), and their response is interesting. The "near future" of course pissed me off but "some big surprises" I'm not sure I've ever heard them refer to the lineup with that. I've heard stoked, ...

Today is the 5th day since the last official post on Facebook, and they never went beyond 3 days without a post recently. It means that... they’re taking Labor Day off. Or does it? I noticed that too. Hoping that it means they are getting ready for the hell they are about to unleash when they send ...

Whose dick do I have to suck to get Northern Genocide on board? Because I'm just about willing, holy shit.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3XmufcSi ... 2CDiD2Bb0g

Whose dick do I have to suck to get Northern Genocide on board? Because I'm just about willing, holy shit.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3XmufcSi ... 2CDiD2Bb0g

Need a new category I think. RUMOURS AT THE GATES - according to a reliable source DIVIDED MULTITUDE - were invited to play 2019 but couldn't make it EPICA - 70k-sized hole in their USA tour-dates PREDICTIONS Any band that was on 70K Round 1, that wasn't on in 2019 and is still active. AMON AMARTH ...

At this point I've kind of just resigned myself to believing it's definitely going to be September 1st. There's no special day between now and then that anything "should" happen on, so...

Fuck though this sucks.

Behemoth just announced a UK/Europe tour with Slipknot and as much as I still can't wrap my head around that combination (Knotfest confused me enough...) I did happen to notice that it doesn't start until January 14th.

Coincidence? Probably, but here's hoping I'll finally catch my Big #1 on BOAT

cowboy71 wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 18, 2019 2:46 pm

I imagine only a handful of veterans will actually drop out

But yeah, would be interesting to know how many, and why.

How many would be interesting. The why, I'm sure we know

This time of year in years past we would have booked already, have a bunch of bands announced that we're excited about, be anticipating the next bands, bitching about the gaps. Instead, people are dropping out, we are all wondering what the hell is going on, and I'm watching our currency fall makin...

So lets use some of these figures for a new theory. **Gold Starts - 3 out of the last 4 cruises there has been a 10 day gap before silver, so lets stick with that. - 10 Day break **Silver Starts - Anywhere from 5 days to 35 days?!?! Hard to say which, but lets go with the low. - 5 Day break **Publi...

Sep. 25th is the deadline Yep - 43 days to cutoff. Really not leaving a lot of time for announcements - gap - booking for golds - gap - booking for silvers - gap - booking for general public - cutoff. For bookings made up to September 25, 2019 you may choose to Pay in Full at the time of booking or...

Less than 150 days, officially. When will the madness end?

Or begin.. depending on the context.

Do we even know for sure if the payment plan is still around? If I was Andy and saw that a minority of cruisers used it, I'd just scrap it since it's extra work involved. And then people who pay upfront don't have a discount. Gives umc less work and more money this way. It's stated in the FAQ that ...

What’s so special about having them come back 9 years later? Shouldn’t this logic apply to 2021? “Guys, this was great, let’s promise to meet again every nine years” No, because 2020 is the TENTH YEAR of 70K, not the 9th. Maybe the below will help.. 1. 2011 2. 2012 3. 2013 4. 2014 5. 2015 6. 2016 7...

cegr80 wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:06 pm

It's funny how we are all over-analyzing Andy's post. We must be getting desperate

The post, Mason, what does it mean?!

I noticed we don't have a combined 'catch all' post. Feel free to add! I'll start! EPICA - 70k-sized hole in their USA tour-dates At The Gates - reliable source that I cannot name. I saw their Wacken set is advertised as a "Slaughter of the Set", what are the chances we might get one too? At The Ga...

I feel an announcement coming along soon based on Epica's North American "Tour" announcement today and basically confirming that they are booked for next year. 70K would have asked them to release those dates (with the cruise dates clearly in between the LA and NY shows) as late as possible. Probab...

Where's our 2020 Megathread, Andy? Literally my only hope is that this IS the 2020 megathread.. I thought it was too, but the fact that it isn't pinned says otherwise :( I wouldn't be at all surprised if he can pin posts after the fact. Last year he was changing post titles with each announcement a...

cegr80 wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:05 pm

Where's our 2020 Megathread, Andy?

Literally my only hope is that this IS the 2020 megathread..

cegr80 wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:15 am

Can we now consider the record broken?

Yes, now we can get out the t̶o̶r̶c̶h̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶p̶i̶t̶c̶h̶f̶o̶r̶k̶s̶ well crafted memes and harsh words.

It's 1800h EST.

It's official, less than 154 days to go.. record broken.

I reckon there will be at least 24 hours between an official "SOON" post, and first bands announced so it's looking good that we set a record for the shortest number of days between first announcements and sailing :P Even before the SOON post, I would expect a day 4 recap and an Official 2020 Megat...

mbob wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:51 am

Today's the big day!

Today is my unofficial second guess day so let's see what happens

twoandfortysix wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:08 am

ANNOUNCEMENTS! ...please?

Would it be mean of me to say soon?