Last year, BlizzCon 2007 sold out in three days at a pace of two tickets per minute. This year, BlizzCon 2008 tickets sold out ... in 15 minutes with thousands of connections per second pressing ctrl+F5 attempting to get through the cart process. Read the complete interview at the Orange County Register. Thanks, WoWInsider
Q: Can you, meaning Blizzard, be specific as to what technically happened and why do you think the system broke down? Was it outsourced?
Blizzard: The issues that people faced were due to an incredible rush to purchase tickets. Last year we sold about two tickets per minute, selling out in 72 hours, and this year, with 50% more tickets available, we sold out in a combined total of 15 minutes. This meant that thousands of people were trying to purchase tickets at the same time, so some people were not able to get all the way through the purchase process before the tickets had been sold out.
How many tickets exactly did Bilzzard actually make? If it was in the tens of thousands and it sold out in 15mins...whooo damnnn.
Now this just makes me sad, I just went to check ebay and there are 4 tickets being sold for $2,000 altogether. That is just so wrong...
except blizzard has a chance at success
the cubs? ehh not so much
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jkjkjkjk but really this is diablo fans, not sports fans.......or am i kidding...?
their new mmo is a new IP
and no, it isn't too soon for something to replace WoW
they only originally planned 3 expansions for WoW, guess what number Wrath is?
also, blizzard and the WoW team aren't stupid, even if diablo 3 isn't a mmo it will still hurt WoW subs... The only people still playing will be the chinese who can't get a hold of M games w/o the consent of their overlords, and of course the same goes for the 12 year old petition kiddies
so it is better to have a mmo in develpment for when everyone hits 99 and duping/mfing is the only thing left to do, so people will flock to World of Call of Duty or w/e the activision title blizzard is turning into a mmo
MAD PROFIT!! ppl sellin for 500-800$$$ thats retartedd