@ajamafalous: would you rather do it the way comicon does it? aka random selection
I would rather they announce the date and time that the tickets will be available, and then also release them in waves instead of the laughable way that they currently do it. Here is the last tweet from their twitter account before today:
To assuage any heart attacks, just remember we won't launch tix until later in May. Panel subs are at http://t.co/x3wyRh5lJj
And then they post today that they're on sale with literally no warning and they sell out in minutes, so if you wanted tickets then I hope you happened to have been checking twitter in the 10 minute window that they were available that you had no idea was happening.
@ajamafalous: Announcing the sale date/time would only make it worse. And they would sell out in minutes anyway. There's literally no "good" way to do it. So, from their perspective, launching it and announcing it on Twitter is the only fair way to do it.
If you set up proper alerts, you'll know when it goes live. The tweet generally goes out with the link before the actual site updates.
@ajamafalous: Announcing the sale date/time would only make it worse. And they would sell out in minutes anyway. There's literally no "good" way to do it. So, from their perspective, launching it and announcing it on Twitter is the only fair way to do it.
If you set up proper alerts, you'll know when it goes live. The tweet generally goes out with the link before the actual site updates.
I just simply disagree. I'll use Valve's TI5 ticket sales as an example. They announced the date and time that tickets would go on sale (in two waves, 10am and 10pm on the same day) a week or two in advance; then it's simply up to you to be ready to get the tickets. I didn't get tickets during either wave even though I tried for both, but I simply wasn't fast enough. At no point did I feel fucked over due to a lack of communication or warning like I did for PAX tickets.
I have no problem with tickets selling out in minutes; they're going to do that anyway just because more people want to go than tickets that are available. I do have a problem with not even being offered the chance to go out of my way to buy tickets. It's far more fair to give everyone a heads up and then give tickets to whoever refreshes the page the fastest than "hope you were looking at twitter and are near reliable internet at this exact moment."
Don't even get me started on "later in May" apparently meaning "before the first 25% of May is over."
To those who were able to see the page before all the tickets sold out, did they eliminate the four day pass this year? Or was there a special early bird option that disappeared before they sold out. Just curious since they upped the single day passes again this year.
To those who were able to see the page before all the tickets sold out, did they eliminate the four day pass this year? Or was there a special early bird option that disappeared before they sold out. Just curious since they upped the single day passes again this year.
I set up Twitter to send me a text and notification once they tweet something and that worked to get me Fri, Sat, Sunday badges. I didn't see an option for anything other than individual days.
I checked their website just five days ago, saw the afformentioned tweet and assumed I was still safe. Gonna go on the record here as agreeing that this is some fucked shit
In addition, how do they expect people to get these tickets that have actual jobs where they do not have constant computer availability.
Don't even get me started on "later in May" apparently meaning "before the first 25% of May is over."
I feel like the ambiguity and lack of punctuation in that "later in May" sentence was Khoo intentionally messing with people. He posted it at the end of April, so technically May 1 was "later, in May".
The rush and trickery associated with the release of PAX tickets should feel like pretty old hat to anyone who has gone through this process before.
You can't pre-announce the ticket sale date because scalping for the event has grown so pervasive. The 4-pass limit doesn't stop anyone who is rerolling IP addresses or using different payment options. The event holders have to release them this way to catch those individuals off-guard. But they communicate this fact repeatedly with the intent of preparing all prospective buyers for the sudden registration opening. The onus is on the buyer to be ready.
I got back from lunch at work and saw they were on sale. I barely managed to get two Monday passes. I'll be going to craigslist once again for Saturday and Sunday passes. Sadly no Friday pass for me this year. I'll be out of state playing Army that day :(
Tickets this year unlike last were insane to try and get, but it seems lots of people are selling online. The quantities that some of these "sellers" have is insane. I didn't want to risk dealing with scalpers, so eBay was how I got my tickets. Now to pray they are legitimate, my blacklight is ready!
@bzchan: if you have a blacklight why are you worried about a scalper?
I just don't like those type of transactions. I always feel uncomfortable in haggling situations. It's not that I lack the communication skills, I just would rather avoid any unnecessary anxiety that's associated with those encounters.
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