OCRegister interviewed Shon Damron, Blizzard’s PR manager, who responded to various questions addressing the Blizzcon tickets online store meltdown. What some fans wondered or theorized ended up being the truth.
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.
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
So pretty much, seeing as how many people are rushing to see more of diablo 3, they will be forced to show us some character classes, and some more game play videos.:D
If I had've been going to Blizzcon I would have had my credit card number ready for cop - paste, along with any other things, address, name, everything ahah.
this all owes to diablo 3. Remember when we were waiting for D3 to be announced? At some point in time every one of us believed the idea of D3 to be dead, thinking blizz was to preoccupied by WoW. Blizz made the right move with D3. They are gonna make hundreds of millions of dollars.
Medieval, you don't need to hold down CTRL while pressing f5 to refresh. Just f5. Unless thats some apple/mac thing.
Actually, Ctrl-F5 is a hard refresh. This bypasses the cache stored on your computer so you don't get any errors on the page. And you can see an updated view of the webpage.
idiots like you ruin the whole point of buying tickets imo.
yeah i was about to say something similar. i mean there's nothing blizzard can do about this but i think people trying to make a quick buck off of something like this is wrong. C'est la vie.
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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
http://www.blizzplanet.com
OMG WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW:D
that was pretty fast:P
More like really fast.
Faster then ludacris speed.
RIP WoW-clone, R I P
So pretty much, seeing as how many people are rushing to see more of diablo 3, they will be forced to show us some character classes, and some more game play videos.:D
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i called my friend and was like
dude we are going to blizzcon
hes like awesome, where?
im like.. california
hes like
california?
im like yeah
hes like
WORD? HELL YEAH
lol i called him and woke his ass up at like 7 am
so ...
fixd
:cool:
Medieval, you don't need to hold down CTRL while pressing f5 to refresh. Just f5. Unless thats some apple/mac thing.
Edit: Beat me to it Ivaron.
I'm pretty sure that there was Starcraft 2 in blizzcon 2007 so the record sales are all because of diablo 3.
http://www.bingegamer.net/index.php/2008/an-open-letter-to-diablo-iii-fanboys
yeah i was about to say something similar. i mean there's nothing blizzard can do about this but i think people trying to make a quick buck off of something like this is wrong. C'est la vie.
Only pricks sell things for 6-7 times there price.
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