Blizzcon 2014 Tickets Sold Out

people are selling them on ebay for like $400 >.<

Originally Posted by tk421223x

1) If they can barely afford to go, then perhaps they shouldn't, and maybe they should re-examine their priorities in life.

2) If people "happen to have some cash lying around" - it doesn't mean it is just some evil guy at a computer with a stack of pizza boxes who lucked into a little spare change to scalp tickets with.

3) The buyer is just as responsible, who also has the "cash lying around"...those people don't make you sick too? It seems simply that people with more money than you make you sick.

4) Revisit #1. Execute the plan.

Think of it this way. Someone had been budgeting and saving up money to go to BlizzCon for a year or two. They have enough money for the trip and the tickets and all other fees, but it's tight. They want to meet friends, have a good time, go somewhere. The tickets sell out, and the only way for them to go is to buy ridiculously inflated tickets, because some scalper assholes bought up as many as they could making it so actual fans get screwed over. This is my issue with it. I wouldn't care if they just bought four tickets and it turned out someone else wasn't gonna go, so they sold the tickets at price/very close to the actual price to make back their losses, but they don't. Instead, they charge double, triple, or anywhere inbetween, and this is outrageous to me.

Originally Posted by AlarStormbringer

Think of it this way. Someone had been budgeting and saving up money to go to BlizzCon for a year or two. They have enough money for the trip and the tickets and all other fees, but it's tight. They want to meet friends, have a good time, go somewhere. The tickets sell out, and the only way for them to go is to buy ridiculously inflated tickets, because some scalper assholes bought up as many as they could making it so actual fans get screwed over. This is my issue with it. I wouldn't care if they just bought four tickets and it turned out someone else wasn't gonna go, so they sold the tickets at price/very close to the actual price to make back their losses, but they don't. Instead, they charge double, triple, or anywhere inbetween, and this is outrageous to me.

^This 100%

Tickets should be sold at their real value instead of being sold via a lottery sale... Start prices at 10.000$ dollars a ticket and tick off like 1 dollar every minute, wait till all tickets are sold off. No more whining, well aside from the cheapskates that can't afford it and expect to get a free ride...

Originally Posted by Yilar

Tickets should be sold at their real value instead of being sold via a lottery sale... Start prices at 10.000$ dollars a ticket and tick off like 1 dollar every minute, wait till all tickets are sold off. No more whining, well aside from the cheapskates that can't afford it and expect to get a free ride...

The only people that would benefit from that is blizzard and the supper crazy wow fans...

Originally Posted by Frozenbeef

The only people that would benefit from that is blizzard and the supper crazy wow fans...

Blizzard has stockholders to please, and the super crazy wow fans are those that deserve it the most no?...

I laugh every time they have one of these. People pay out the a$$ to go to these events, catch PPV streams, buy swag, etc.. I can just see Blizzard laughing at this monster they have created that generates so much income. It's kind of ironic that they won't put enough people on the team to crank content out fast enough for the player base, instead they do shady shit like cutting out flight.

Originally Posted by Jettisawn

The last couple times I went to Blizzcon there were people selling tickets at the convention, and if they are following state laws they cannot sell them for more than the original price.


Also a lot of those Ebay tickets are scams.

thats why they have the reputation to give you a idea of whether or not to trust the ebay seller

good thing only smart people resale them online for double the price

Originally Posted by Potente

Awesome. I live around the corner and can't go. Cali residents should get priority over some hick from Arkansas

I live across the globe and I will go.

Originally Posted by Kathranis

If you're going to travel to Blizzcon from outside of California you should probably just build a vacation around it. Disney World is right near the convention center.

yeah cos a single 30yr old man isnt gonna look pedo like going to disneyland lol il go somewhere else

Originally Posted by Potente

Awesome. I live around the corner and can't go. Cali residents should get priority over some hick from Arkansas

What does me being from Arkansas have anything to do with it? I got my tickets =P

Originally Posted by warcraftmew

yeah cos a single 30yr old man isnt gonna look pedo like going to disneyland lol il go somewhere else

If your not fondling kids nobody cares, 50 yr old ppl can enjoy disneyland just like they can enjoy blizzcon.

And for the "theres nothing new to announce why go at all?!" crowd, its barely about the convention itself. It's about being able to party with other dorks from all over the world and load up your battle net account with a ton of new friends to play with over the course of the next year.

Even at $199 it should include the air fare and hotel booking. That's ridiculous. I thought the previous ones were like $40. Or is that just the virtual ticket?

Don't worry Eventbrite's ToS prevents them from selling on Ebay, even if they show up on their they can't actually be sold.

Never stopped them yet.

for those talking about Ebay just wait the prices will drop... A LOT. i've had friends that had to resort to ebay and never paid more than 50.00 over retail. people can place them up for outrages prices but you can watch and get decent deals. Its really impossible to stop. Oh i can't sell my ticket?? here buy this rock for 250.00 and i'll give you a ticket for free! (we did this in college for student tickets to games .. the school couldn't do anything).

Originally Posted by Jettisawn

And California state law says you can't resell tickets for more than the original price.

They'll camp outside the event selling their badge for 200 bucks, as per state law...

and the goody bag for another 500

The mark up on the tickets is not huge actually, not like the Garth Brooks tickets that I saw on there for 500% mark up

Originally Posted by Dch48

Even at $199 it should include the air fare and hotel booking. That's ridiculous. I thought the previous ones were like $40. Or is that just the virtual ticket?

O.o $199 wouldn't even cover the airfare from some places in the same country.

Originally Posted by Yilar

Blizzard has stockholders to please, and the super crazy wow fans are those that deserve it the most no?...

They don't 'deserve' to go to blizzcon just because they are rich enough to pay 10k+ on a 2day trip, if they did deserve it blizzard would do what you suggest.

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Originally Posted by warcraftmew

yeah cos a single 30yr old man isnt gonna look pedo like going to disneyland lol il go somewhere else

I'm 23 and i would enjoy it :P Never even been out of England in my life, let alone disneyland >.<

Blizzard can sell anything.