Tickets are all gone for fan fest

[DeviFoxx]

I don't have a horse in this race but it's baffling that from what I understand, the tickets were just dropped in one go? Most festivals/events stagger tickets over multiple days and time slots.

Exactly. And that's how the Fan Fests prior to this one were handled. The ticket sales were staggered and sold in "waves".

But, for some foolish reason or another, the organizers decided to dump their entire ticket pool into the one-day sale period on Tuesday, July 10th... And they were gone within 20min after sales went live, with a large half of the community locked out by the virtual queue while others got in, creating splintered groups of people.

And Square-Enix thus far has been silent on the details mostly, except from a short response from the community manager about them "investigating" matters.

[Kule]

Exactly. And that's how the Fan Fests prior to this one were handled. The ticket sales were staggered and sold in "waves".

But, for some foolish reason or another, the organizers decided to dump their entire ticket pool into the one-day sale period on Tuesday, July 10th... And they were gone within 20min after sales went live, with a large half of the community locked out by the virtual queue while others got in, creating splintered groups of people.

And Square-Enix thus far has been silent on the details mostly, except from a short response from the community manager about them "investigating" matters.

That's quite embarrassing for a large company such as SE. I wonder now how the atmosphere will be at this event in Las Vegas with usual groups of friends not all being able to grab tickets and also the issue with scalpers now holding void tickets.

[Awha]

That's quite embarrassing for a large company such as SE. I wonder now how the atmosphere will be at this event in Las Vegas with usual groups of friends not all being able to grab tickets and also the issue with scalpers now holding void tickets.

I am sure the atmosphere will be lively and the people that got their tickets will be thoroughly enjoying the event.