Last remaning BlizzCon tickets go on sale at 8:00 p.m. PDT tonight
by Adam Holisky 
Aug 12th 2008 at 7:32PM
If you want to go to BlizzCon in October, you have one last window to buy your tickets: 8:00 p.m. PDT tonight. That's 11:00 p.m. Eastern, and 10:00 p.m. Central. This news comes from an announcement on the main page of the WoW website. The announcement further tells us that all the available tickets were sold out within minutes of the Blizzard Store coming on-line this afternoon.Considering there will be a third hall open this year, we believe around 12,000 tickets have been made available (this number has also been reportedly confirmed by phone sales reps), which is 50% more than the 8,000 that were sold last year. The World Wide Invitational that took place in June also sold out very quickly.
In the case of the WWI, additional tickets were made available after the primary batch had sold out. However, and this is important, there is no indication Blizzard will do this again.
We'll update with any further information when we have it.
Filed under: Blizzard, News items, BlizzCon
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Aug 12th 2008 7:43PM
Well crap.
guess i'm not goint as payday is friday. I thought I would be able to buy tix for myself and my son then. guess not.
p.s. what sucks is I am willing to bet a number of tix went to the lets sell them on ebay crowd.
Doc X Aug 12th 2008 8:19PM
Those who purchased tickets will be unable to ebay them. In order to pick up your tickets at the convention, you're going to have to show photo ID and the credit card you used to purchase the tickets. Without those, you won't be able to get your tickets and get into the show. If you ebay them, the person who buys them won't be able to use those tickets.
Hope this helps.
Guyledouche Aug 12th 2008 8:22PM
You can't buy or sell these tix on ebay. You will need the credit card that was used to purchase them to pickup the badges at the event.
Insane Aug 12th 2008 8:40PM
Unfortunatley that doesn't mean most weren't taken by scalpers. There are websites selling Blizzcon tickets for 1,500 dollars per ticket. I just wonder what'll happen when the people who buy these tickets get turned away due to the above stated issues with scalping being impossible.
loucat Aug 14th 2008 2:35PM
you can sell your tickets to anyone as long as you are off the premises. It's been confirmed that once you (scalper) pick up your tickets, you can distribute them any way you want--the name on the badge does not need to match the person.
Pat30319 Aug 12th 2008 7:46PM
I wanna buy like 10 and ebay them like those gold-farming chinaman.
kenney Aug 12th 2008 7:58PM
nerdrage. This was such a morale dropper in our guild, where 7 of us were trying to go, and 2 of us got their tickets (not from want of trying on all counts). The supply / demand ratio combined with the technical infrastructure to support it was just a complete fail.
It's their product, and they have the right to sell it/arrange it as they see fit, but wow- this just doesn't seem like a very positive experience for most people. How many man years were poured into trying to buy tickets by people who failed to get them? There's really no market disincentive for showing such a blatant lack of appreciation of your customer base, but I wish there was...
Seq Aug 12th 2008 8:01PM
I just wish they would wipe their system clean of purchases, reverse payments, fix up the site and take it back up in a week after doing some major streamlining on it.
Ticket purchasing shouldn't be hitting F5 repeatedly and cross your fingers that the system took it... My thoughts go out to all those poor people who spent a whole load of cash on hotel/plane reservations... and to those who got their money frozen in their Credit Card accounts -.-
chinasky Aug 12th 2008 8:33PM
Are you honestly suggesting they should UNDO sales that have already been made? That would be unwise. They would increase the percentage of people negatively impacted by the site errors to 100%. Who benefits by that?
M@ Aug 12th 2008 8:02PM
8,000... 12,000... I feel like I'm rep-grinding.
Why can't they just jump to 21,000?
philselmer Aug 12th 2008 8:26PM
Why did you have to go and let everyone know? How am I supposed to get my tickets? :P
Jonathon Aug 12th 2008 8:38PM
What sucks is because my first purchase try failed, when I tried my second time my bank thought it was fraud and put a hold on the account. Then they didn't bother calling me for 12 hours so every try after that was worthless.
That pisses me off...
Liel Aug 12th 2008 9:16PM
What concerns me is that I still cannot log into the blizzard store or do a recovered password and I have bought stuff there before.
mattriggins Aug 12th 2008 9:49PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I found this on the net and put it up on my youtube account.
For all of you who tried to buy Blizzcon tickets....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_wV6ax3FKI
I was able to get mine today. Hope you too!
Atheira Aug 12th 2008 11:38PM
wow... I was a step away from buying them and the server crashed... GFG Blizzard. They've seriously pissed me off today. Forms half work, 2 out of 4 browsers wouldnt display the pages correctly (Safari on OS X didn't even get a order button). Wow...