FFXIV FanFest Tickets Are A Disaster This Year

[DPZ2]

Limiting ticket purchases to two and requiring the original credit card (or was it ID?) to be presented to attend were the two anti-scalping methodologies I believe they adopted for this year.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Limiting ticket purchases to two and requiring the original credit card (or was it ID?) to be presented to attend were the two anti-scalping methodologies I believe they adopted for this year.

It's already been shown you can change the name on the tickets through showclix. And names weren't prefilled I believe. You just... Put in w/e name you wanted for the tickets.



That's how people who got lotto tickets were trading them around. All winning the lotto got you was a code. No info needed to match SE account or anything.

[rainichan]

I keep seeing this.

How.

Because looking at my tickets on Showclix, I cannot. The way ticket sales were set up was you put in the names in your 15 minutes that you had to buy them. I cannot alter them now. I can view them, I can convert them into a pdf, and I can add them to a non-existant for me Apple Wallet. But editing the names after they have been bought is not possible.

[DaemonInazuma]

I keep seeing this.

How.

Because looking at my tickets on Showclix, I cannot. The way ticket sales were set up was you put in the names in your 15 minutes that you had to buy them. I cannot alter them now. I can view them, I can convert them into a pdf, and I can add them to a non-existant for me Apple Wallet. But editing the names after they have been bought is not possible.

Go to the Showclix main website https://www.showclix.com/, in the upper right hand corner, hover over Sign In and it produces a drop down that says My Tickets. Click My Tickets. It will send you to a sign in page that requires a email address and password. if you didn't set up a password on login, then you need to reset it. Once signed in, you will be able to see your purchased tickets and you can click on them to expand the page. At the very bottom, there is a prompt to edit your name for the tickets.

[rainichan]

Go to the Showclix main website https://www.showclix.com/, in the upper right hand corner, hover over Sign In and it produces a drop down that says My Tickets. Click My Tickets. It will send you to a sign in page that requires a email address and password. if you didn't set up a password on login, then you need to reset it. Once signed in, you will be able to see your purchased tickets and you can click on them to expand the page. At the very bottom, there is a prompt to edit your name for the tickets.

Huh. Well that's frustrating. Thank you!

(though I will say, I'm not editing to sell, I just kept hearing and going "???? but it's not letting me???")

[DaemonInazuma]

Huh. Well that's frustrating. Thank you!

(though I will say, I'm not editing to sell, I just kept hearing and going "???? but it's not letting me???")

I'm glad they allow us to change the name because my wife is going with me, but what if she can't for some unforeseen reason and I can have someone else come with me, etc. However, the name change can be exploited so I'm not sure how you fix that when it comes to scalping.

[Malykris]

I'm gonna speak for myself mostly, but I do wanna note that there are some of us veteran players who feel the same as I do in the regard of attempting to go to Fanfest this year.

The preface is that I am a player who was in the PS3 Beta of ARR, I've been playing for 10 years and have given so much time and faith into this game. For the first time in these 10 years of playing the game, I am both hurt and disappointed. I've been wanting to go to FanFest ever since the first one. I've never been able to go because up to this point in my life, I didn't have the means to go and I've had to work hard in my life to get to where I am now. And now that I finally have the means to go, it just so happens to be the FanFest where people who want to go will be subjected to the will of luck.

The initial setting of it being a lottery was already not optimistic. Learning that there would 15,000 tickets feels like it's not enough when the player base for North America, let alone the rest of the world, has grown exponentially large over the last few years. Out of the active players of North America, with each person who got an email getting two tickets, that means only 7,500 people got that email. There are a lot of theories/ways people could still scalp these tickets, but the main fact of the matter is also that all the tickets could be potentially sold out - there's no separate pool for general sales.

Entering General Sales felt less optimistic in terms of logistics. Despite there being "several thousand" tickets left, which one could surmise is either three to five thousand tickets left, that's at the most a third of the tickets to now the rest of the world. And yet, even though it was told that this would be a first come, first serve attempt, it isn't. You had to wait in line where your place is completely randomized - a second lotto for a larger pool of people. To add insult to injury, there were ways you could game the system - you could have multiple browsers open and that would be a position in line, on multiple devices that can include your phone as well.

Do I deserve to go because I'm a long time player since the rebirth of the game? No. How much time or how much love I have for this game doesn't make it obligatory for Square-Enix or Yoshi-P to give me a ticket to FanFest. But I, along with everyone who feel the same as I do about FFXIV, deserve a better chance than leaving it all up to luck. I can't say that I have a better solution to how to go about selling the tickets, but I know sure as hell it wasn't this.