Tickets are all gone for fan fest

[OtakuPyun]

Are the people in Paris pretty fluent with English or shall I start taking lessons for French?

[Paladinleeds]

With all respect, but you sound like a wuss here. Come out of your comfort zone. If you really wanna meet someone, you wont make these lame excuses and would do anything to meet her. If you need events to both have fun, you guys clearly dont know each other well.

With all due respect, you don't know our circumstances. Both of us have issues (especially me), that makes doing what you suggested pretty much impossible. Even at an event there's still a chance things could go wrong (and in past events I've been to it has), but it's still our best chance. So kindly take your ignorance with you please. Thanks.

[Alleo]

Greetings,

We would like to follow up on reports that there were Fan Festival tickets sold without users needing an access code. Our ticket vendor explained that they had to temporarily pause the access code requirement while they addressed a technical issue that was slowing down the site. During this brief period, a small number of tickets were purchased without an access code. We investigated those purchases and did not find any evidence of ineligible purchases.

I dont live in NA but I still feel for all those that lost their chance to go to the fanfest.

Why does this read like its not a big deal that the vendor just took down the very system that was placed there to stop scalpers and not stop the sale too? How is this acceptable and I cant believe that its just a small amount of sold tickets. (Also every single one that was sold that way is one ticket too much) But next to that other bugs happened too..yet seemingly nothing is done against it.

How is it also acceptable that there are sold tickets to the JP fanbase if they have their own fanfest too? This would not be a problem if they could get tickets that did not sell or if this was a huge place but with that limited amount of people for such a huge country?

At least it would be nice if you give people the chance to refund it..but seemingly nothing will be done..

I really hope that nobody buys from those scalpers so that they will sit on their money and have less people there..

[Ilyrian]

Are the people in Paris pretty fluent with English or shall I start taking lessons for French?

Parisians would rather set you on fire than speak English with you. Though for Americans maybe they'd make an exception? For the English it's certainly not going to happen.

[BakaGaijin]

As fun as Paris would be, the extra $900 for the flight and whatever for the hotel would be too much for most people. They would also miss out on seeing anyone from their data center. It's a nice alternative, but some people, myself included wanted to go for meeting other people from my FC and LS.

[Maero]

Pretty sure the hosting more adventurers next time around, fans are more like screw that we are done, lol

[Presbytier]

Pretty sure the hosting more adventurers next time around, fans are more like screw that we are done, lol

Lot's of people did get tickets and this is just how these cons get as they get more popular. Hell Blizzcon is so popular now you have to have extremely good luck to get tickets.

[Remyogic]

Have ya'll never tried to buy tickets for something popular before? This is the norm for most big name events. The only difference is that you can't buy tickets from scalpers/third parties later if you miss the direct buy window.

[Andevom]

How is it also acceptable that there are sold tickets to the JP fanbase if they have their own fanfest too? This would not be a problem if they could get tickets that did not sell or if this was a huge place but with that limited amount of people for such a huge country?

I would *almost* be okay with this if there was a similar deal on our end to go to the Japan Fanfest. But considering that doesn't seem to be the case, yeah, I have no idea why they would take away chances for NA dwellers.

[HellishFae]

IF SE is legit that there were really no issues (which I seriously doubt), then that begs an even more serious question of how many fucking tickets DID you sell?

In previous years, we were TOLD how many tickets you sold, but this year has been suspiciously quiet. Is it because you don't want to admit that you are responsible for screwing over your own fanbase by insisting on choosing these small convention venues?

When we look at the census for how many active players there are this year, we're at 246,642 in America. Compare that to the 80,870 active America players that there were in 2016 around the time ticket sales were going up for that Fan Fest. Pretty big jump, right? So why in the name of god are you moving BACK to a smaller venue? And again, why will you not tell us how many tickets were sold for the event this year? It would need to have been around 3x the number of tickets you sold last Fan Fest if you wanted to be able to accommodate at least the same percentage of your players.

There are legitimate convention centers in Las Vegas that can house much larger groups of people than these convention centers you keep trying to use in the casinos. Why is that something you're not looking in to? Why are you pretending to have been blindsided by the number of people who want to attend your event when you have access to not only the SAME information that I just gave, but even more of it with an internal analytics team that you likely maintain.

This is some bullshit, you know it, and you need to make it right SE.