Got my Blizzcon ticket!
I was unsuccessful last year, but I was more prepared this year. I had my main PC and my HP laptop both on the Blizzcon ticket purchase page, refreshing both computers the entire last 10 minutes before 7:00 pm Pacific Time. I was doing a good 100+ refreshes a minute between both computers.
I'd been refreshing my laptop intermittently for the last hour of the waiting time, in case Blizzard brought the ticket sales online for a minute or 2 before the start time, like they did last year.
6:58... 6:59... 7:00! My main PC got in the queue about 3 seconds after I saw the Checkout icon come up, and I was #2279 in line. I got the laptop in the queue about 10 seconds later, and it was at #15,500, no chance at all of getting a ticket.
By the time I got to the front of the queue, only 49% of the stock remained, and the laptop was down to around 11,800 when the Sold Out notice went up.
I'm happy I got a ticket, but also kind of disappointed. If I didn't get a ticket, I had plans made to find a way to sneak into Blizzcon this year. Bribing guards, claiming I'm from a temp agency and supposed to be working here today, etc. I had several plans of attack all prepared. I was going to post a complete topic here on breaking blizzcon and getting in. Won't need to now.;D
I don't like the word ticket. Ticket. TICK..et. It implies that I need someones' high and mighty permission to attend an event. This is ME we're talking about here!
I'd been refreshing my laptop intermittently for the last hour of the waiting time, in case Blizzard brought the ticket sales online for a minute or 2 before the start time, like they did last year.
6:58... 6:59... 7:00! My main PC got in the queue about 3 seconds after I saw the Checkout icon come up, and I was #2279 in line. I got the laptop in the queue about 10 seconds later, and it was at #15,500, no chance at all of getting a ticket.
By the time I got to the front of the queue, only 49% of the stock remained, and the laptop was down to around 11,800 when the Sold Out notice went up.
I'm happy I got a ticket, but also kind of disappointed. If I didn't get a ticket, I had plans made to find a way to sneak into Blizzcon this year. Bribing guards, claiming I'm from a temp agency and supposed to be working here today, etc. I had several plans of attack all prepared. I was going to post a complete topic here on breaking blizzcon and getting in. Won't need to now.;D
I don't like the word ticket. Ticket. TICK..et. It implies that I need someones' high and mighty permission to attend an event. This is ME we're talking about here!
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You saying Mexicans are zergs? Cheap, overwhelming and don't use technology? What kind of racist BS is that?!
Fixed it for you, to make more appropriate references to blizzcon
Still do this. Use the ticket as a last resort to get in.
-Bobby
But what if one of my plans WORKS? I'll have blown $150 on a ticket for NOTHING!!!!! I'd be mad then.:banghead:
Snarkasm - I doubt I'll see many mexicans in there. Most of the ones around here don't look like they can even afford a computer, much less know what Blizzcon is.
I assume it will be themed DB3 and have news on the next SC2 release, and have tons of crap on the wow Exp. or they may stun us all and announce their next gen MMO (which I doubt will happen.)