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3.000 More BlizzCon Tickets On Sale via Lottery

Posted Aug 14, 2008 by Zyuu
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When Blizzard Entertainment announced that BlizzCon 2008 tickets were on sale, the traffic caused by everyone wanting to buy tickets was too much for the Blizzard Store to handle and as a result users experienced a lot of downtimes due to the sheer number of people trying to buy their tickets.

The president of Blizzard, Mike Morhaime have now stepped in and announced that they will be selling another 3.000 tickets. There's a catch though, the demand being as it is – Mike feel that the best way to sell these tickets are via a lottery. Also, only those who have an active Blizzard account as of 9:00 PM PDT on August 12 will have a chance of getting the tickets.

Did you miss out on buying BlizzCon 2008 tickets due to the downtimes the Blizzard Store experienced? Well here's your chance to get your tickets, although it's going to be a bit of a hit or miss affair.

Stay tuned for more BlizzCon 2008 news.


Blizzard Gamers,

On behalf of everyone at Blizzard, I want to apologize for the challenges and frustrations you experienced while trying to purchase BlizzCon tickets on Monday and Tuesday. BlizzCon is about the positive experiences you all have had with Blizzard games. As a result of this week's events, the excitement that many of you felt about the show has turned into dissatisfaction and disappointment.

Due to these circumstances, we've reevaluated our convention hall space and come up with some solutions that will allow us to offer 3,000 more tickets for sale. We know this will not be enough to satisfy the very high level of demand for tickets this year, but we want to ensure that BlizzCon remains a great experience for those of you who are able to attend. To avoid the issues many of you faced this week, we'll be selling these 3,000 via a lottery. We'll post further details once our plans are finalized. Please note that the lottery will only be open to those with an active Blizzard Account as of 9:00 PM PDT on August 12, the time that the “Sold Out” notice was posted.

I, and everyone else at Blizzard, share the frustration and disappointment that many of you have expressed as a result of this process. We'll do what it takes to avoid this type of situation in the future.

Sincerely,

Mike Morhaime

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  • souljahwright said 
    Thu, Aug 14 2008 3:50 PM ()

    :( i want tickets badd

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  • trudavy said 
    Thu, Aug 14 2008 3:50 PM ()

    does a WoW account fall under blizzard account? if not i feel robbed, i rly want ze tickets

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  • casmith said 
    Thu, Aug 14 2008 3:50 PM ()

    This is a great solution for locals, but those of us traveling as a group from faraway lands won't likely be able to be guaranteed an all-or-nothing package. Doesn't seem like Blizzard has been putting very much thought into any aspect of the tickets sales. What a disappointment!

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  • casmith said 
    Thu, Aug 14 2008 3:50 PM ()

    This is a great solution for locals, but those of us traveling as a group from faraway lands won't likely be able to be guaranteed an all-or-nothing package. Doesn't seem like Blizzard has been putting very much thought into any aspect of the tickets sales. What a disappointment!

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  • aikouka said 
    Thu, Aug 14 2008 3:50 PM ()

    No, Blizzard Accounts are separate. You have to have one to purchase stuff off the Blizzard store and you can also associate your games with your account to allow online downloads of the games.

    I just hope we can get a time table of when this will occur . I missed out because of the bugs and have travel arrangements, so if it turns out that my luck is not great (which based on my poor rolls in WoW... I don't hold much faith =P), I'd like to get things taken care of quickly.

    I do appreciate Mr. Morhaime coming out and admitting that things were not up to par.

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  • MysticEyes said 
    Thu, Aug 14 2008 3:50 PM ()

    Well I was in the process of getting the account and had tickets in my basket will that count??? Then was told nothing in cart and tickets sold out - I was so upset I did not finish the sign up process at the time - not until the next day - so does that mean that I am out???

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  • vabeachdave said 
    Thu, Aug 14 2008 3:50 PM ()

    We were trying to buy a pair of tickets for quite some time. We made it to the purchase tickets screen several times before their website bombed. If they do a lottery i hope they allow people to buy multiple tickets cause if we just win a single ticket, I won't go without the Misses.

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