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Boom, you've managed to expand the area your convention covers, AND cut down on crowding issues.
08/22/09
You could put the cosplay in a football stadium and it would still be standing room only.
08/22/09
And actually, you wouldn't be able to fill a football stadium. We still haven't managed to come close to filling the smaller stadium at Otakon. Attendance numbers between the two conventions are comparable.
08/22/09
on a nice sunny da-
wait never mind, half of the people attending would melt from sun exposure...
08/22/09
Blaming Blizzard for all of their problems, jeez.
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Attendee badges will be distributed on site at the Anaheim Convention Center during BlizzCon. Approximately one month before the show, the ticket purchaser will receive up to five separate e-mails (one for each ticket purchased) each containing a unique attendee barcode that will be required to gain entry to the show. You will also be able to access these bar-code emails through your Battle.net account.
Before arriving at the show, each attendee must print the e-mail containing his or her barcode and bring it to BlizzCon, along with valid photo ID. In order to receive a badge, the name on the bar-code e-mail *must* match the name on your photo ID. You can edit attendee names for all of the tickets you purchased until 5 p.m. Pacific Time on June 13 by logging in to Battle.net Account Management and going to Order History.
from Blizzard's website. Unless I'm missing something, doesn't this mean Scalping doesn't work?
05/17/09
You can edit attendee names for all of the tickets you purchased until 5 p.m. Pacific Time on June 13 by logging in to Battle.net Account Management and going to Order History.
Ah nevermind, just reread this...but I guess that means all scalping has to be done by June 13th.
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I tried searching on ebay, and found some asshole all the way over in Ontario who was selling a bunch of the tickets at an exorbitant price. I fired him off an email telling him what an opportunistic asshole he was for preventing many people who genuinely want to see a great band from attending.
He never wrote back, but the next day, he relisted the tickets for about half the original asking price. I felt good about myself.
I ended up getting my tickets from a nice guy whose friends decided, at the last minute, not to attend.
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Like I said in the previous article: the only winners here are Blizzard and the eBay sharks.
I realize there's another opportunity on the 30th but what's the use? If I was prepped for the first go and failed so dismally, the second go will be even worse.
Also, I'm not a fan of jumping through hoops to part with my money. I went back in 2007 because of "connections" and I doubt I'll ever attend another one.
This elitist-exclusive fan-wankery can go on without my money.
05/17/09
Not to mention that they already announced SCII and Diablo III which are the only two games I care about. Unless they're planning on re-releasing Rock and Roll Racing I couldn't care less about this. I guess I don't play WoW and am not into the whole cosplay scene so I don't really "get" blizzcon.
I'm an old bitter man!
I hope everyone who DID get tickets has a blast though. Make sure to take lots of pics of all the orgiastic nerd festery!
05/17/09
Change is needed Blizzard. It needs to be done.
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Which is how it should be. It's your property, you're free to sell it for whatever the market will bear.
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Blame the buyer not the seller for enabling such a ridiculous prices.
It comes down to some discipline and self control... If you're too excited about going to a convention and consider it a life changing event then you fucking deserve to waste that much money. >.>
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Ticket brokers are big business and actually have a lot of power within the government as far as lobbyist go. Earmarking I believe is where a lot of these ticket broking laws go unnoticed. I have a friend in the business and it is just straight up mob tactics.
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Yes some people package things with tickets, but that's often to sweeten the deal, not really to get around anything unless the specific primary seller (say, the nfl) forbids ticket resale--which, we should note, blizzard has not in this case. You'll see non-packaged superbowl seats sell as often as package deals, neither one is more legal than the other.
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Oops, I made a minor grammar slip up. Nothing big but I'm OCD about this, it'll bug me all day. At the end of my comment I meant to say either "WoW was some sort of online millionaire's club" or "WoW was some sort of online country club". I kinda mixed the two together, sorry about this whole thing. I doubt anyone is reading this reply anyway. Or are they? Doesn't matter I feel satasfied...
Kotaku, you may carry on now.
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Are you referring to when I say "In normal people money isn't that usually a lot?"
If you are, I know its wrong: I simply planted it as a trap to lure in an inquiry like yours. An inquiry where you are confused about the fact that if I were a grammar freak, then why would I make a point to correct an error that isn't even grammar related while the actual mistake is left as is. The answer? I enjoy creating confusion on the internet, it helps me deal with my megalomania by letting me control forums through way of my little grammar traps. I'm like the god damned Riddler.
Kidding. But seriously though, nice catch. I thought about whether that sentence was right or not soon after I wrote it and had meant to put it in my self-reply, but my mind sort of drifted away and I forgot to.
So here it is Kotaku, my correct sentence, all thanks to 'pmur': it should have been "Isn't that usually a lot in normal people money?" instead of "In normal people money isn't that usually a lot?"
My fellow Kotakuites, thank you for your time and patience in this little ordeal.
Sincerely,
Meeish
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Anyway around November I had to undergo reconstructive surgery due to a car accident that I was in. It was a head on collision, and when the windshield shattered my face got pretty fucked up by the glass. I was in the hospital for nearly two weeks and went through three separate procedures over the course of my stay. I have excellent health insurance so I didn't have to pay much out of the $235,000 worth of surgery. After my release from the hospital I was on and off many medications, ranging from pain killers to steroids. I had an I.V. in my arm until late December, pumping in Morphine-like shit to deal with the pain. Most of the glass was embedded around my nose and eyes. The doctors say that I was lucky to not end up blind, let alone dead. But i did in fact lose much of my sense of smell, and I'm unable to breath through my left nostril. I can get that fixed through surgery, but my insurance may not cover it since it's technically elective. I was in fact eligible for a medical marijuana prescription, a prescription which I accepted for a short time but eventually stopped when I was well enough to go back to work. That was back in February, and I'm still on a pill a day; but there was a time when I was taking six pills per day.
So to answer you question: I have, in fact, been taking my meds.
05/17/09
Damn! My last sentence was supposed to say "to answer your question" not "to answer you question"
Sorry Kotaku! This is the last time, I promise.
05/17/09
Really rather enormous
Too long, did not read.
05/18/09
Just saying..
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Make it free.
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