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that was fun… ^_^

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BlizzCon Ticket – 4 Tickets @ $100
Ticket Holder: Christopher S. (Character: Niekon, Alliance, Azuremyst, Warcraft, US)
Ticket Holder: Matthew S. (Character: CacheCrash, Alliance, Azuremyst, Warcraft, US)
Ticket Holder: Jennifer S. (Character: MmeLeota, Alliance, Azuremyst, Warcraft, US)
Ticket Holder: Diana C. (Character: Shrtyvnchkn, Alliance, Azuremyst, Warcraft, US)

Item Subtotal: $400.00
Sales Tax: $0.00
Shipping & Handling: $0.00
Total: $400.00

Tickets were supposed to go on sale on Monday morning… some things happened and Blizzard’s site exploded. About 600 of the 12,000 tickets were sold all day while the site was up and down. Most of those who got tickets were part of a 5-10 minute window a bit after 6pm.
Today tickets were supposed to go up again but no one knew when… I was paying attention to everything since I got to work. Nothing at 6:30am… 8am came and went without any word from Blizzard. It wasn’t until around 10:30am that word was passed down that tickets would become available at some point in time AFTER 12pm.
12pm came and went with a lot of griping from folks on the BlizzCon forums… I understood what Blizzard meant by “after 12pm”… but I guess everyone else thinks of it as 12:01pm. I still kept the store URL up though… and would F5 every five to ten minutes. Around 12:35 I got a new error… which meant we were coming back online. Scramble… type in all the info needed… attendee’s names, characters, factions, etc. Page errors out… refresh… dead page. FUCK!!!!
Refresh like mad… get main page again and have to re-enter all the info again… and page errors out a second time. Refresh… dead… DOUBLE FUCK!!!!
Mad refreshing… I’m in… enter everything a third time!!! This time I am able to get to the next page… but not without an XML error. Refresh and the info is all there and the page is ready to move forward. Get to the payment… confirm… and place order. Order placed and confirmed by Blizzard… email was seconds later… and I could go back to actually doing something constructive with my day. :P

For those attending in October… all three of those who are listed up above… see you at BlizzCon bitches!!!!

EDIT #1:
And was just over at the BlizzCon forums… and noticed a frenzy of panic about tickets being sold out in under an hour. I have no idea what the hell is going on over there… I’m assuming Blizzard is releasing in batches like they did last year… at least for their sake they better be releasing in batches…

EDIT #2:
and a few minutes later things seem to be fine again… allegedly a coding error or some shit. O_o

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