Earlier, someone had mentioned they noticed a Fan Gathering for FFXI listed on some ticket website. I was actually skeptical it was official/real because it hadn't been announced yet, but the poster noted people were buying tickets already.

More recently, SE in fact did make an announcement confirming it was an official thing.

Today, they announced ticket sales (I also got an email about it around the same time). But the tickets were already sold out.

Ummmmm... really? Did anyone here get tickets? Why did they not announce ticket sales when they were actually available?