[OutsiderFan]

Charging $500 to watch Pac--Whatever sports? You might get parents, but zero broad audience. Great way to attract players too: Come to the Pac, where your friends and family can watch you if they pay through the nose. . . .

Yep

Cardcrimson likes to discredit larger points by discrediting small sub-points that ignore the full picture.

In this case, he focuses on "$500" to watch (live games)," while ignoring the larger point that was to add more benefits to the product than just watching live games. There absolutely is a product to be had at that price point, if you figure out how to develop it. 

The conference paid who knows how much to media consultants to tell them how to sell what media buyers want. They could have spent the same money doing market research on how to develop a product to fit a new business model they could control.

[OutsiderFan]

Charging $500 to watch Pac--Whatever sports? You might get parents, but zero broad audience. Great way to attract players too: Come to the Pac, where your friends and family can watch you if they pay through the nose. . . .

Yep

Cardcrimson likes to discredit larger points by discrediting small sub-points that ignore the full picture.

In this case, he focuses on "$500" to watch (live games)," while ignoring the larger point that was to add more benefits to the product than just watching live games. There absolutely is a product to be had at that price point, if you figure out how to develop it. 

The conference paid who knows how much to media consultants to tell them how to sell what media buyers want. They could have spent the same money doing market research on how to develop a product to fit a new business model they could control.