Zarhym hit the forums this evening, just a few short hours before the kickoff of BlizzCon ticket sales,
to drop a number of tips to help increase your chances of getting tickets of your own. Some highlights include:
- Making sure your Battle.net account is set up properly
- Making sure your bank (or other financial institution) will accept large transactions from the Blizzard store
- Enabling cookies in your browser
Check out the thread for the full details on these tips and many more. They're all great tips and I can say from past experience that it is incredibly good advice.
Tags: blizzcon, blizzcon-ticket-sales, blizzcon-tickets, ticket-sales, ticket-sales-tips, zarhym
Filed under: BlizzCon
Jun 2nd 2010 at 8:30PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jadawin Jun 2nd 2010 8:51PM
Wish it weren't on the opposite coast!
majinbuu1023 Jun 3rd 2010 9:04AM
Plane tickets aren't that expensive. Cmon man its blizzcon, I can't go because I live on the other side of the world
Dylan
(http://wowgoldguide.info)
Moonkinmaniac Jun 2nd 2010 8:54PM
How do you enable cookies in your browser? Isn't that dangerous? And I guess there is still no word on the in game item for this year.
WaterRouge Jun 2nd 2010 8:57PM
It really depends on the website for whether or not cookies are dangerous. But considering this is Blizzard we're talking about I bet you can trust them for this night (or the second) when buying your ticket.
I personally won't be in the race to get a ticket either night because its being held in the end of October instead of August. Last Fall I started planning a lovely road trip down to California where my destination would be Blizzcon. Oh well.
Drakkenfyre Jun 2nd 2010 9:40PM
Cookies are harmless, mostly. They track you from site to site and enable you to keep logged into sites.
People way overblow the danger of cookies. They are normal and are how a browser works. The worst they can do is tell other sites what sites you have been to. Mostly it's ad data. If you logged into any website and checked "remember me", you are using cookies.
Some security programs overstate the "danger" of cookies. Ad-Aware will list them as a "threat", which is absolutely stupid. Lots of security programs do, and I think it's just so they seem more effective when it finds "dozens" of threats, and they are all normal cookies. In fact some sites will refuse to work correctly until you enable cookies.
If you don't have cookies enabled, don't expect to buy tickets. By the time you enter your info, and it requires it a second time, your place in line will be too far to expect to get a ticket.
Jez Jun 2nd 2010 9:02PM
Step 1: Campaign for the proper Anti-Kotick price of $100.
Step 2: If step 1 fails, tell Blizzard to shove their $150 tickets up their fat, cellulite, orc-loving ass.
Step 3: Relaxxxxxxxxx.
JohnnytheFuture Jun 2nd 2010 9:27PM
Everyone with Authenticators,
keep in mind that when you login to the Blizzard store, it will also ask for your Authenticator code. That's 5 seconds of time you could lose if you don't login beforehand.
Lios Jun 2nd 2010 9:35PM
Can't login yet though. All pages point to the Blizzcon 'currently unavailable' page :-(
JohnnytheFuture Jun 2nd 2010 9:37PM
Make sure you're accessing the right site: http://us.blizzard.com/store/blizzcon-tickets.xml
Scroll down to the bottom 'Continue to the Blizzard Store'
Then login on Blizzard Store homepage.
jackpfree Jun 2nd 2010 10:05PM
lol got 77th in line, see yall there
Josh Jun 2nd 2010 10:29PM
A little late now, but make sure you use internet explorer... firefox screwed me out of tickets and I have the screenshots as proof...
Squatstopee Jun 3rd 2010 3:27AM
I think it'd be a blast to go, but it's too far away of a trip at this monetary stage in my life. Thinking about getting the Internet feed for the pet(if they give any away)
Bonkie Jun 3rd 2010 8:36AM
They haven't announced yet what it's going to be. They did Grunty last year, Bear mount before that... maybe it's time for another costume?
swampthing Jun 5th 2010 1:08PM
Bought a ticket last year and the year before with Firefox and had no problems.