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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
And to create artificial scarcity, thus allowing higher ticket prices to be charged.
Using your capacities, instead of fans competing to buy from among 70,000 seats, now the same number of fans are competing to buy from among 38,000 seats. The seat market size has been reduced by 46% while the number of customers is unchanged.
Higher prices inevitably follow.
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This is part of it.
But those 70,000 seat stadiums were awful.
When I lived in America, I went to games at RFK stadium pretty often. Because I was young and it was cheap to go. (and I worked for the Nationals for a few years as well)
It was a pretty awful fan experience. But that was the design of the time in the 60s and 70's
Then they began to design smaller stadiums with a more 'premium' experience.
Ticket prices did rise. But they also took into account things like parking, metro access, sight lines and actually being able to see the entire field no matter where you sat.
Being able to go get food and get back to your seat in a reasonable amount of time.
Fan safety
Modern stadiums are just better as we have gotten more experience in building places where any where between 15,000 to 80,000 people gather for several hours and then leave at once.
But as others have said, not even these smaller stadiums are selling out.
It is very possible to attend a weekday game and find tickets on the secondary market for considerable savings vs face value.