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BlizzCon tickets are gone (for now) -- try again Saturday

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jun 3rd 2010 3:00PM

In less time than it takes to complete the Halls of Lightning, the first round of BlizzCon tickets sold out last night. WoW.com has the timeline (pictured) of how quickly the $150 tickets sold out -- only to appear on eBay at $500 shortly thereafter.

The next opportunity to gain entrance to Blizzard's celebration of all things itself occurs this Saturday, June 5 at 1PM EDT (10AM PDT) sharp, with a limit of five tickets per household. WoW.com has some tips on how to make sure the process goes smoothly.

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Tags: blizzcon, blizzcon-2010, blizzcon-ticket-sales, blizzcon-tickets, diablo-3, pc, starcraft-2, world-of-warcraft

Reader Comments (38)

So sad.

Well, maybe sad is not the right word for it. It's amazing what Blizzard has done to be able to gain such a ridiculously insane following of people, that would go to such lengths.

Especially considering every one of those $500 tickets on Ebay is going to sell.

What word am I looking for...

More like so smelly. I bet it just smelled of dirty gamer just waiting in the queue.

so... 500x5 - (150x5) = 1750...

not bad for 20minutes of work.

The second set of parentheses is unnecessary.

Er, the ONLY set of parentheses.

Whoa. The rarely seen "Order of Operations Hammer."

Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally, but way to drop it.

i don't care if it needed or not, it doesn't make a difference.

god damn math nazis.

Actually, by order of operations, no parentheses are necessary in the equation at all.

Although (500-150)*5 is much more efficient.

Although he did correct himself, it is still kind of funny though that he failed to count correctly when criticizing your use of the parentheses.

I must have been counting the parentheses in his name.

GODDAMMIT I FINISHED MY COURSES AND NOW IT'S FOLLOWED ME HERE.

The word is 'F*cked'.

$150 tickets? You've got to be kidding me. That is an outrageous amount of money to charge for things I could sit at home and watch on the internet THE SAME DAY.

I hope they all enjoy their $500 trailers and cosplay contests.

Damn it. That was supposed to be a reply to Ezio up there.

Clearly they do enjoy it.

Clearly. I would have liked to go in my Terran Marine suit made of cardboard boxes. It would have been EPIC.

yeah but you get a cool World of Warcraft pet

Yes, true. I'm not knocking the fans as much as the despicable practice of price-rape being conducted by Blizzard here. As if the millions upon millions of dollars in monthly payments aren't enough. I know it's all supply and demand, and they'll charge whatever their rabid fans are willing to pay; it just seems wrong to me. Cons just shouldn't cost $150 dollars. Ever. They're supposed to be about community and fun, and that kind of price of entry and sickening profit is upsetting, to me.

If i recall correctly, 150 is about the same price a 3 day pass to Comic Con would go for from the con themselves, so it's not exactly evil, evil price gouging, especially considering that Blizzcon is merely the size of Comic Con but supported and put on by a single company.

Sports tickets are pointless too. I can watch it all on TV anyway.

I'd gladly pay $150 for a rock n roll racing sequel

or nudes of Tarquin

Blizzard to runs BlizzCon at a financial loss, they don't make money off of it (see the 2009 AGDC keynote). What they DO get is increased community goodwill and uninterrupted focus on their products alone(no need for E3). So no,

And this is a 2 day convention. $150 is CHEAP compared to the professional quality and swag you get for attending. How many high demand conventions or concerts have you actually been to? BlizzCon is actually VERY reasonable as long as you aren't working off an allowance or extremely tight budget, in which you're not paying much for entertainment anyway.

You seem to be missing the fact that ticket also gets you a goodie bag which more than makes up for the price. Last year's kind of sucked, but usually the stuff that comes in it equalled the price of the ticket (last couple of years when the tickets were $100 and $125.)

Items include a guaranteed spot in a future Blizzard beta, one time a coupon for $40 off an nVidia card, and an item exclusive to that convention.

23 Minutes is misleading. It took 23 minutes for Blizzard to process all their sales. In reality, the first line says "Ticket queue is immediately over 10,000". Those queued above 3850 or so were out of luck.

I was pretty lucky. I started out at about 2000 in the queue. waited about 15 minutes and was able to get a ticket.

I'd say "who cares" but that wouldn't be a useful addition to the discussion

$500 on eBay just proves that Blizzard has (yet again) failed to properly price their product. Didn't they learn a little bit from last year on the subject? A total sell-out, especially at that speed, is a very bad thing.

No, it just means they don't care to price it higher.

And how much are souls worth, exactly?

Depends on the soul.

i.e.

immoral deeds*good deeds/years alive*pi=est GSW (Gross Soul Worth)

Of course I'm doing this in America. If you're in a country that uses the metric system, it's quite different.

Fullmetal Alchemist spends quite a bit of time on the subject. Apparently they're not worth all that much.

Tried my best jamming the refresh button and putting in my order but I still ended up being 7,000 in queue. =(

Is there a reason they don't make the tickets non-transferable? You can bet a sizable amount of the tickets sold will be on ebay, which this would put a stop to. That way the only people buying them are people that actually want to go.

You can change the name on the tickets up until the 20th, so people will just register them in another name, the name of the purchaser on eBay I suppose.

Technically, they are.

You need to use your Battle.net account to buy them, and then show the credit card at the door that was used to purchase them, So you are buying a ticket and HOPING the person will show up to claim the ticket.

What's the max amount of tickets one person can buy? With the ebay tickets about I have to wonder how many people have a legitimate interest in attending and how many are simply scalpers.

Just because there are a bunch of scalpers doesn't mean there aren't a lot of people who want to go, it just means the scalpers are better are getting the tickets

My God, it's spreading! Lock the doors, get the shotguns!

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