BlizzCon Tickets Round 2. PLUS: Blizzard unveils new game... FAILOC-ALYPSE!
This is the screen I saw after being in the queue for a little over a minute. An odd error which read an "Undefined" position in the queue and "NaN minutes" left to wait. 15 seconds later, I was booted out of the queue and sent back to the Blizzard homepage. From there, I had to re-enter the queue. Even with the glitches, I made it down to #659 in the queue with only a few minutes left to go. Unfortunately, before my turn came up, tickets had completely sold out.
So again, I really hope you guys had much better luck than we did today. And hey, even if you didn't, there's still hope for three of you because we're currently holding a big Blizzcon 2009 Ticket Giveaway Contest. Be sure to read all about it and get your entries in before the June 8th deadline!
On a lighter note, while the ticket queue process was clearly more glitchy this time around, there was some fun to be had. Blizzard unveiled a retro-style flash game called FAILOC-ALPYSE which you could play while you waited in the ticket queue to help pass the time. It even kept you up to date about your position in the ticket queue in the bottom right corner while you continued to play.
Naturally, I selected the Witch Doctor from Diablo 3 as my playable character of choice and killed Failocs galore in front of the ever-growing crowd outside of the Anaheim Convention Center for BlizzCon. Managed to make it up to level 42 before BlizzCon tickets were sold out. Launched a nuke and scored some majors points for doing many rad double-jumps too. I also enjoyed seeing some familiar faces popping up in the background as the game went on. Good times.
Of course, me being a web designer at heart, I always like to check into the details of a page. So when I checked out the background image that the game resided on top of, I got a good chuckle out of what the flash game had been hiding:
Good ol' Blizzard.
Hell, or maybe people are leaving to rediscover D2 again.
D2 is at about 19000 users on USEast, that has been the average amount lately anyways from what I've seen.
Dunno if thats a raise or a decline in users, but I'll keep track of it over the next few days to see.
Hmm. I also quit WoW a few months ago, as did most of my online friends. I'm not sure what killed the buzz of the game for me, but it seems to be happening to a few others too.
I've also gone back to playing Diablo 2 a little bit, I think the numbers for it are rising before the storm that will be Diablo 3( not to mention, a mysterious patch)!