Tickets are all gone for fan fest

[Tsalmaveth]

Suuuuper easy to say where you're sitting. So point of the comment?

[Avenger]

As someone who managed to buy a ticket I'm happy, sure it sucks for others but these things happen sometimes.

Suuuuper easy to say where you're sitting. So point of the comment?

The "sucks for [you] but these things happen sometimes" bit would probably be better said as something like "This is the awful reality of the horrible state of ticket sales for popular live events: It's a crap shoot and the odds of getting tickets to a popular event are stacked in favor of professional ticket brokers rather than fans. Unfortunately Fan Fest seems to have crossed the threshold into undersupply/overdemand hell where it's almost impossible for normal people to get tickets - and apparently this took SE completely by surprise, as well as many fans who had no trouble getting tickets to the last FanFest, which took hours to sell out. It would be nice if SE would try to do something to fix the obvious issues, but it is a hard problem to solve overall - as you can see from trying to get tickets to almost any popular convention, concert, etc.."

I'd suggest that there are a lot of things SE could do to try to fix the problem and also to compensate the many disappointed fans who were crushed by ShowClix Ticket Queue (Savage).

[Hakane_Mitsu]

Might not have been gloating. The "these things happen sometimes" bit would probably be better said as something like "this is the awful reality of the horrible state of ticket sales for popular live events: it's a crap shoot and the odds of getting tickets to a popular event are stacked in favor of professional ticket brokers rather than fans. Unfortunately Fan Fest seems to have crossed the threshold into undersupply/overdemand hell where it's almost impossible for normal people to get tickets - and apparently it took SE completely by surprise, as well as many fans who had no trouble getting tickets to the last FanFest, which took hours to sell out. It would be nice if SE would try to do something to fix the obvious issues, but it is a hard problem to solve overall - as you can see from trying to get tickets to almost any popular convention, concert, etc.."

I'd suggest that there are a lot of things SE could do to try to fix the problem and also to compensate the many disappointed fans who were crushed by Ticket Queue (Savage).

That's not really what I was thinking, It was more like Most that managed to get through with the proper steps (not for the first 10mins~ where people could bypass the access code which royally sucks) and get their ticket are legit happy and glad they're able to go which I am too.

Sure it sucks that quite a lot of players won't be able to attend including some friends of mine but I've also been getting a ton of hate since I purchased my ticket because I'm flying over from the UK to attend the NA FanFest and everyone is telling me to "Go BLAM! yourself" ( Gotta keep it PG-13 ) and we don't even know how many others like me coming from EU to visit Las Vegas and attend the NA FanFest.

[Avenger]

Sure it sucks that quite a lot of players won't be able to attend including some friends of mine but I've also been getting a ton of hate since I purchased my ticket because I'm flying over from the UK to attend the NA FanFest and everyone is telling me to "Go BLAM! yourself" ( Gotta keep it PG-13 ) and we don't even know how many others like me coming from EU to visit Las Vegas and attend the NA FanFest.

That's too bad. I don't have any antagonism toward legit players who managed to beat Ticket Queue (Savage), or players who want to travel from other countries and attend. I note that there is a population of international players on NA servers as well. I guess it might be a problem if nobody from NA got to attend the NA FanFest, but I doubt that large numbers of people are flying 8 or 9 time zones to attend FanFest anyway. Though I wouldn't mind going to the Europe or Japan FanFests if I could!!

I do wish that the ticket sale hadn't been such an awful bloodbath though.