BlizzCon Ticket Drawing Winners - Are You One?
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Project Lore Editor on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 5 Comments Tags: blizzard, blizzcon, blizzcon 2008, drawing, lucky, opt in, tickets
Project Lore Editor on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 5 Comments Tags: blizzard, blizzcon, blizzcon 2008, drawing, lucky, opt in, tickets 
Blizzard just announced on the World of Warcraft site that they have selected the 'winners' of the BlizzCon opt-in ticket drawing. These lucky 1500 people now have the chance to buy two tickets to BlizzCon for $100 each. If anyone who was selected doesn't purchase both tickets, another round of selections will be made. For those of us patiently waiting for BlizzCon tickets, it's a big moment. This is likely one of the last chances for Blizzard fans to get tickets to the show, although who really knows how good those odds were, since we don't know the number of people who actually opted in.This drawing, of course, was the result of a failure on Blizzard's part to ensure that their online store would be able to handle the amount of people wanting tickets when they went on sale a while back. It was a good enough solution for this year, but in the future, more and more people are likely going to want to get tickets to BlizzCon. They've got to come up with something that will allow tickets to be distributed fairly. I'd love to hear all of your thoughts on the subject, too. How do you think this whole debacle was handled? What are your thoughts on a solution for the future? A bigger venue? More expensive tickets? Fewer swag items?
Also, how many of you guys opted in to get tickets, and did any of you get that email letting you know you could purchase them?
Reader Comments (5)
Hope the best for the people who do get some. I would be one of them if I didn't live in Canada.
Ooo men i wish i had tickets to Blizzcon!!
and i also think they handled the ticket drawing very well!
How can you go wrong with Ticketmaster?
I opted in to get tickets for a friend (I got lucky the first time) - I didn't get an email though.
I think the lottery is the most fair way to do it. Don't let economics drive the price up so that only rich people, and kids willing to give up a kidney can go. 100$ is a fair price.
As for the venue... yea... something bigger would work - but what about having more than one BlizzCon location? I would advocate for an east coast site. Boston (preferably) or New York. I would love to go to BlizzCon but I will never pay to fly over for it.
As for the map - those of us with good eyes don't need to zoom in on the same picture. Zooming in should provide more details like these maps: http://www.kaldorei.com/worldmap/
Right now Kaldorei's map of Northrend isn't up to date, but it's getting there.