Tickets are all gone for fan fest

[dark494]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...y_the/e25pyuy/

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Long shot I guess

[Ghastly]

Imagine if most of the tickets were bought by bots and there's barely 100 people that show up........those gil sellers are savage. SE should at least check that real people bought them instead of bots.

[Rita1989]

Imagine if most of the tickets were bought by bots and there's barely 100 people that show up........those gil sellers are savage. SE should at least check that real people bought them instead of bots.

people who are using bots are specifically doing so to resell at a 300-500% premium

[Azper]

Ehh, it's NA Fan Fest. Ours is usually the worst of the 3 with the least amount of interesting information anyway.

[Ranetsu-Akagane]

I read on reddit someone called showclix and was told was told that "they will not be getting any more tickets issued for the event by SE, and they sold all available tickets with no plans to sell or reissue any tickets sold already. They also said any issue with access codes needs to be taken up directly with SE, as they just use SE's software, and all of that is handled by SE directly."

I can't say for sure this is true but it does worry me.

[Finnfinite]

I read on reddit someone called showclix and was told was told that "they will not be getting any more tickets issued for the event by SE, and they sold all available tickets with no plans to sell or reissue any tickets sold already. They also said any issue with access codes needs to be taken up directly with SE, as they just use SE's software, and all of that is handled by SE directly."

I can't say for sure this is true but it does worry me.

Eh, it's p common for third party "helpers" like this to not be informed of later plans. Just because they filled (and overfilled) the quota SE told them first doesn't mean that what SE told them was the real quota to begin with.

[Ranetsu-Akagane]

Eh, it's p common for third party "helpers" like this to not be informed of later plans. Just because they filled (and overfilled) the quota SE told them first doesn't mean that what SE told them was the real quota to begin with.

I really hope they sell more, I was really looking forward to going.

[Khanscott]

Well, people in my FC are extremely pissed off that less than half of them actually had a chance at a ticket. People are getting sick of stupid mistakes like this.

Quite honestly, I see nothing being done about this fiasco. I will be legitimately shocked and amazed if S-E opts to actually take the time to offer a solution.

[Avenger]

The 2018 NA FanFest ticket sale really seems like a it was a disaster.

If I recall, the ticketing site broke down in 2014, but it still took more than 24 hours to sell out? Note this was also at the Rio.

And in 2016 it still took several hours to sell out.

So how is it then that in 2018 people who were in the queue exactly at 12:00:00 PDT weren't able to get tickets?

And what was up with the "presale" - were too many tickets pre-sold (how did you even get into the presale anyway?) so maybe they weren't available in the regular sale? Or were too many tickets grabbed by robots and scalpers?

[Freyar]

The 2018 NA FanFest ticket sale really seems like a it was a disaster.

If I recall, the ticketing site broke down in 2014, but it still took more than 24 hours to sell out? Note this was also at the Rio.

I remember that selling out in under an hour. I remember being very nervous about not getting tickets year-one. Had three people working to get them.

And in 2016 it still took several hours to sell out.

That it did. It was much less frustrating.

I managed to get through and get the four tickets I needed. I knew it was going to be more of a fight this time due to moving back to the Rio. Good god was 2016 great. Had a suite in The Paris for that one.