Blizzard: FAIL!
Apr. 27th, 2013 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechI tried twice to get a ticket to Blizzcon. Twice I failed-- I was in the 3-4K range when they sold out each time. And this is with constant refreshing and clicking through-- less than a second-- to get my spot in line. I think the best I ended up with was 8,400.
Blizzard is a multi-billion dollar company. One would think that a company with those resources could figure out how to sell tickets to a VERY popular event. This is the first year I know of where at least the servers didn't crash when ticket sales opened. I can understand this happening the first year (unexpected)-- but that same thing happened for several more events!
Their solution to make it "easier" is to split the ticket sales into two batches. Their brilliant thinking, I guess, is: TWO CHANCES! Woo!
All that does is give the bots and others two chances to buy tickets. If they had sold it in one batch, I would have gotten my ticket. Instead, I was in the 8k spot in line twice. Yay.
If the Nitwits-in-charge at Blizzard just limited everyone to -one- ticket at -one- sales event, most of the people who really want a ticket would get one.
/endrant
Blizzard is a multi-billion dollar company. One would think that a company with those resources could figure out how to sell tickets to a VERY popular event. This is the first year I know of where at least the servers didn't crash when ticket sales opened. I can understand this happening the first year (unexpected)-- but that same thing happened for several more events!
Their solution to make it "easier" is to split the ticket sales into two batches. Their brilliant thinking, I guess, is: TWO CHANCES! Woo!
All that does is give the bots and others two chances to buy tickets. If they had sold it in one batch, I would have gotten my ticket. Instead, I was in the 8k spot in line twice. Yay.
If the Nitwits-in-charge at Blizzard just limited everyone to -one- ticket at -one- sales event, most of the people who really want a ticket would get one.
/endrant
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2013-04-28 10:59 pm (UTC)Back when I hung out in animation circles, I'd get invited (or do the inviting) to go to many such conventions and events, but in furred circles I find people don't do that as much, so I don't even figure I'm going to get into events like Blizz or E3 ...
I thought you had an inside track and would never be excluded from Blizz and it's disappointing to hear you didn't make it in this year... eeeesh!... I wonder if some of these things are just getting too packed, and the powers behind them haven't figured a way to cope with that yet...
SDCC keeps talking about moving since it's outgrown the San Diego center.. and there are plenty of options that could handle it... but for the last 7 or so years they've instead opted to morph their admission policy into this strict narrowly-timed exclusive system, the likes of which has broken frequently, much as it sounds like the Blizz one is doing....
But do these organizations learn from history? Nope.,.. most just choose to make the same mistakes over again, as if there's no way to research and find out what phails and what doesn't.. ;p
In other words.. feh... I agree that it's disappointing that they haven't found a better way yet.. and sorry you didn't make it in this time.. :/ ....