BlizzCon Ticket Prices
As we all know, all of the information announced at BlizzCon quickly becomes available online. However, for the ticket price, along with travel and hotel expenses, attendees are allowed exclusive access to upcoming game demos and are able to attend tournaments and panels on Blizzard's games that occur during the convention. During the event, attendees are also given a goodie bag, which, at recent BlizzCons, has contained everything from beta keys to WoW pets and more. Obviously, whether or not all of those perks are worth $175 is up to you, so do what do you think about BlizzCon ticket prices? Are they overpriced by a lot? Only a little? Do you think they're reasonable? Vote in the poll above and discuss your opinion in the topic below.
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I personally would rather just buy and watch the live stream. The flight and hotel I couldn't afford.
Either way flights from Australia make this a tad of an expensive journey so I'll be streaming online.
Not that I would choose to play D3 on consoles anyways, but Blizzard is a business, afterall, and seeing more people be converted to Diablo fans would be nice. Maybe the console and PC crowd could grow and surpass the WoW community.
No, you don't get to play demos, and no, you don't get the grab bags, but you save $$$ in the long run.
It's simply not plausible to take everyones' camera phones and such to prevent recordings.
Last year I bought a Virtual Ticket for 30 bucks and have to say it was worth every cent.
This year I will be doing the same.
Oh and one last thing, you get to watch the video stream in HD quality ,,,, LIVE!
Same here. I have 0 money for travel.
Edit: Another thing...
On the other hand, the online pay per view thing is a complete rip off. Someone inevitably records everything and posts it on Youtube in high definition, all free to view. I could see maybe $10 for access, but with all the problems I don't see how someone would pay for that. Last Blizzcon the HD mode didn't even work for most people. People that paid money for HD had to watch low res because of the bugs. There were also lag issues, hiccups and timing issues.
They even hyped up this big SC2 showmatch between Boxer (former Brood War champion) and FruitDealer (then SC2 world champion), but it never got shown on the live stream due to some error. I only watched the free stuff, which was the opening ceremony, some of the WC3 tournament, WoW tournament, and the showmatch (which was never shown due to bugs).
All over the forums paid viewers were having the exact same issues as me. I was really glad I didn't spend any money on that and just watched everything on Youtube. That's another thing. You could only watch the videos on demand for that weekend. After that, they were removed so even people who paid couldn't watch if they were busy that weekend or something. Youtube on the other hand you can still view everything today with no problems. /end rant
Tickets sell for around $300 on ebay, so the price doesn't match demand. Most people that reach checkout buy the maximum number of tickets because even if they can't use them all, they know they call sell them for a profit.
I'm on the job right now actually.
Ah...nothing like feasting on the profits from swindling desperate, befuddled maggots. It is both satisfying and an excellent source of easy income.
I encourage everybody to do it at least once.
Seeing as I haven't been to Blizzcon I find it hard to value whether 175 is overpriced or not, though I suppose I would find it worth my money at least once just for the sake of the experience.
They have said that, and I don't expect this year to be different, even withthe raised prices. Marketing costs