Blizzcon Tickies!
Well, we were pretty disappointed earlier this month when the Blizzcon tickets sold out before we could buy them despite taking shifts on the computers to watch for the site opening up. Unfortunately we completely missed the random eight minute window in which Blizzard sold all 12,000 tickets... in eight minutes. Sometime between 12:40 and 12:48, so I understand.
So we were REALLY bummed out and seriously sad and angry, but then Blizzard announced that they were so upset about screwing up so bad that they would purposefully make space for 1,500 more Blizzcon attendees to be given away to people who already had an account on their store before the ticket debacle. Well it just so happens that we had an account there ahead of time, so we opted into the contest just in case. You have to realize that these tickets have a street value of over $1500 each (or at least that's what scalpers are trying to sell them for despite Blizzard's efforts to squash them). So probably between 20,000 to 30,000 other disappointed people also opted into the contest for the chance to get Blizzcon tickets.
Well, WE WON! So we're going to Blizzcon after all! I checked it over carefully, we absolutely have a perfectly legit email from blizzard.com announcing that we now have the right to buy two (2) Blizzcon tickets. We're one of 1,500 people selected to be allowed to buy Blizzcon tickets out of the tens of thousands that applied. I have to think that they looked at our registered accounts and noticed that we've both been playing the game since launch. We're going to Blizz-con! We're going to Blizz-con! Nyah nyah nyah! Hehe, lol. We're happy as clams now.
I heard a rumor that Mike Morhaime will be handing out these tickets himself to ensure they can't be scalped, so that would be pretty cool. We'll see :) It's obvious that he felt awful about the ticket selling debacle and all the people who couldn't get in.
So we were REALLY bummed out and seriously sad and angry, but then Blizzard announced that they were so upset about screwing up so bad that they would purposefully make space for 1,500 more Blizzcon attendees to be given away to people who already had an account on their store before the ticket debacle. Well it just so happens that we had an account there ahead of time, so we opted into the contest just in case. You have to realize that these tickets have a street value of over $1500 each (or at least that's what scalpers are trying to sell them for despite Blizzard's efforts to squash them). So probably between 20,000 to 30,000 other disappointed people also opted into the contest for the chance to get Blizzcon tickets.
Well, WE WON! So we're going to Blizzcon after all! I checked it over carefully, we absolutely have a perfectly legit email from blizzard.com announcing that we now have the right to buy two (2) Blizzcon tickets. We're one of 1,500 people selected to be allowed to buy Blizzcon tickets out of the tens of thousands that applied. I have to think that they looked at our registered accounts and noticed that we've both been playing the game since launch. We're going to Blizz-con! We're going to Blizz-con! Nyah nyah nyah! Hehe, lol. We're happy as clams now.
I heard a rumor that Mike Morhaime will be handing out these tickets himself to ensure they can't be scalped, so that would be pretty cool. We'll see :) It's obvious that he felt awful about the ticket selling debacle and all the people who couldn't get in.