I totally 100 percent agree with this.
Yes I am cross as you have said...we all bit the apple. However, what infuriates me is that having bought a standard ticket, if i want the group shot (which has been offered as a gesture of good will to all gold and silver attendees, as Alex will not be attending) Standard ticket holders must pay £20 for it!!!! I think that is well and truly unfair. You cannot off a gesture of good will to certain people and not the others. We have all forked out money for tickets and are about to fork out money for a hotel room and travel costs also. I think considering all that has gone on the group shot should be offered as a gesture of good will to all attendees.
I mean no disrespect to ME/SE as I work in events an know how hard everyone works to pull an event of this scale off.