Blizzcon 2010

[Souca]

It really bugs me that people buy tickets just to resell. Blizzard should just up the price to $300 or so. Sure, there would be a lot of people who wouldn't go, but obviously they're "worth" more than $150 if they sell out the first second they go up and people are buying them on ebay for almost $500 already.

Or just add a "no resale for profit" clause to the TOS/EULA of the ticket. The big problem they run into is that it would only be enforceable at the door and by then the scalper has already made their money and the unlucky fan that overpaid would get screwed. It might lower chances that scalpers would try and sell the tickets in the first place, but that first year would suck when whatever percentage of tickets get wasted when scalpers buy them and can't sell them.

Personally, I'd like them to restrict sales to people who have purchased a Blizzard game or game time in the last year or had a Battle.net account for over a year. Have to wonder how many tickets went to Bnet accounts with no games attached.

Hell, I wish I had a good solution, but that would just mean more angst when they didn't do it

Back to optimizing my browser refresh overclocking.

- Souca -

[alcattle]

Or just add a "no resale for profit" clause to the TOS/EULA of the ticket. The big problem they run into is that it would only be enforceable at the door and by then the scalper has already made their money and the unlucky fan that overpaid would get screwed. It might lower chances that scalpers would try and sell the tickets in the first place, but that first year would suck when whatever percentage of tickets get wasted when scalpers buy them and can't sell them.

Personally, I'd like them to restrict sales to people who have purchased a Blizzard game or game time in the last year or had a Battle.net account for over a year. Have to wonder how many tickets went to Bnet accounts with no games attached.

Hell, I wish I had a good solution, but that would just mean more angst when they didn't do it

Back to optimizing my browser refresh overclocking.

- Souca -

What about limiting to B.net accounts over 6 months old, which is anounced 3 months before blizzcon tickets go on sale. It might work once. Then only to Bnet accounts with active toons leading to day of sale, say 3 months. I do not want to go, but it is unfair for players who do want to go not to get tickets.