BlizzCon 2008 Sold out

BlizzCon 2008 has now officially sold out.  How many hours did this take?  The entire internet was buzzing today with the Blizzard online store repeatedly crashing under the weight of people wanting to throw their money at Blizzard.  I heard at one time there were only 12,000 tickets and that they had to sell them in small bursts of 200 at a time to ease the stress on the webserver.  Everyone was going insane with the F5 button.  I almost feel like I might be the only one who doesn’t really care all that much to drop 100 on a ticket.  It’d suck to go alone so I’d take my wife…200 bucks.  And that’s just the tickets.  Flying out there from the midwest?  Probably another 600 bucks there if we shop around.  If we drive…gg gas prices.  Then we have to find a hotel…unless you’ve already booked one, probably can’t find anything nearby for less then 150 a night.  Plus food…and that doesn’t even count buying souvineers to say you were there…yeah this trip would probably run close to 1200 big ones.  Quite a bit of money for a game that I already drop 180 bucks on a year anyway.  I was listening to a GFW podcast this morning on my way to work and they mentioned how the longest line in the entire place at the World Wide Invitational was the line to the Blizzard store.  You were given menus to choose what you wanted to buy while in line then when you got up front you spit out what you wanted asap and gave them more money.

So now I’m convinced. Blizzard can simply print money.  If they can’t even keep a server running long enough to sell $12,000,000  worth of tickets (thats right $100×12,000tickets).  And when people get there they’ll be waiting hours in line to throw more money at Blizzard.

Seriously…  I think things might have gotten abit out of hand at this point.  I’ve heard this year they are taking over another wing of the Anaheim center so it should be much larger then last year. 12,000 in one day.  I’m quite sure Blizzard could have sold 5 times as much.

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