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I live in the UK so wasn't going to get a ticket anyway, but I do love to see how great Blizzard are to their fans.

Sure, there will always be people that complain and say "meh meh should have got it right the first time meh meh meh" but you have to applaud Blizzard for taking action like this, they are one of the few gaming companies that consistently go the extra mile for their fans.

Yay 3000 more people to sift through and wait behind

Haha. No im glad they are so good to their fans. It truly shows in circumstances like this

Quote from "cheebalover" »

profit profit profit profit....

True, true true true.

True

:rolleyes:

There is no average. This is the third year and it grows every year. The original number this year was 12000 tickets, last year it was 8000. So now this year its 15000 total tickets, almost twice the number of last year. HUGE growth.

I really wish I had created a Blizzard Account now...

see, all of you being pissed at blizzard, saying they are greedy, etc etc

They do honestly love their fans...

unlike mythic who gives their CE people 3 extra days of beta ><

i cant even go

so

dammit

i mean what did blizzard expect after just announcing Diablo III? anywho i wish i had the time and money to go to blizzcon. maybe next year, assuming they have another blizzcon.

Quote from "bigtpsychoboy" »

i mean what did blizzard expect after just announcing Diablo III? anywho i wish i had the time and money to go to blizzcon. maybe next year, assuming they have another blizzcon.

the announcement of their next mmo is eventually going to happen, trust me, blizzcon isn't going anywhere soon

BUT I do think if they do announce a new mmo at blizzcon or at WWI next year, or even at the next blizzcon

they need to rent out the entire center and allow 50k people in so we can have a nerd orgy

Quote from "cheebalover" »

profit profit profit profit....

I don't know about blizzcon... But the World Wide Invitational sure doesn't look like they make profit.. They gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money, set up a nice area in a foreign country.. and only sold each ticket for like $100 each or something (I may be wrong).

As far as I can see they don't seem to profit that much through these conventions, but I'm not stating I know for fact, just that it sure doesn't seem like it.

Quote from "waddlez" »

the announcement of their next mmo is eventually going to happen, trust me, blizzcon isn't going anywhere soon

BUT I do think if they do announce a new mmo at blizzcon or at WWI next year, or even at the next blizzcon

they need to rent out the entire center and allow 50k people in so we can have a nerd orgy

haha for real, maybe by next year i'll enough money/spare time to go to blizzcon.

Quote from "jlane" »

I don't know about blizzcon... But the World Wide Invitational sure doesn't look like they make profit.. They gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money, set up a nice area in a foreign country.. and only sold each ticket for like $100 each or something (I may be wrong).

As far as I can see they don't seem to profit that much through these conventions, but I'm not stating I know for fact, just that it sure doesn't seem like it.

exactly

the profit comes from people going to these events, telling their friends/internet about how amazing it was, thus people go out and buy their games

blizzard makes 10,000,000 x $14.99 a month, now take out server cost, salary, the take that vivendi gets out, they still probably get a profit of 5 million a month

if they made the tickets free, no one could get in because everyone would be getting their free (max tickets allowed) tickets

the money they get is to pay for the event, hiring the fire people from the diablo announcement, renting out the rooms, cleaning after the nerd-gasms as they announce World of Tony Hawk Pro Skater...

the list goes on

So, what your saying is, Blizzard is making money because everyone agrees that they are amazing and tells all of their friends about them?

The evil swines, how dare they be so amazing!

Mike Morhaime is so awesome.

I bet Blizzcon is gonna be packed this year..woot!

i love these Blizzard's actions, it make me feel so special... hehehe! just a joke!
but i really love Blizzard! yeah man i love them, don't you?

Quote from "cheebalover" »

profit profit profit profit....

Ehh, I think blizz could give a shit about the profits from an extra 3000 people, I think they are more interested in pleasing the fans.