E-sports Ticket Prices To Be Slashed This Year

The organisers of the e-sports festival plan to slash tickets prices by 30-40 percent this year due to the poor response last time.

The Hong Kong Tourism Board, which organises the event, had priced the tickets between HK$280 and HK$480 last year.

The three-day festival, to be held at the Exhibition and Convention Centre in Wan Chai from August 24, will be held along with the Hong Kong Computer and Communications Festival at the same venue.

The first video gaming festival was meant to help clear up misconceptions that many people have about gaming.

Organisers had said the event would be of interest to youth from across the world and hoped to attract around 50,000 people to the event. But media reports indicated that the festival, which received partial funding from the government, managed to draw only 20,000 people.

The annual music festival, meanwhile, will be held at the Coliseum on August 24 and 25. The Tourism Board said it has yet to finalise the singers and bands which will be performing, but believes there'll be a great deal of interest in the performances.