2009 Blizzcon...!

[warwizard]

If anyone has 2 extra tickets let me know !

[Zerocool2024]

Don't forget, tickets go on sale today....

[Souca]

Yea. Not sure I like the new system better though. Apparently I was a few second slow and ended up 13,846th in line and get the pleasure of watching the stock dwindle. Anyone have two tickets they can send my way?

- Souca -

[Zseth]

basically by not having something to combat the ticket bots, blizzard fucked over alot of people. You had to be amazingly quick with the refresh key, but bots can do it faster.

[Zerocool2024]

LOL... I got worked as well, again...

CLicked two tickets, buy and was in 4000+ within 2 seconds.

Was in Qu, then it kicked me out and made me go back to the starter page... after that, I went back in and it was 10 mins different in time.

Got down to 200Que, 7% left, and BAM, out of STOCK!!!!

FUCK.

[Souca]

9832nd when the stock went from 8% to zero.

I know this is likely a victim mentality, but I'm tired of dealing with Blizzard and feeling fucked over. I haven't played WoW since the PVP Tourney and have only kept the remaining two accounts open to pay for the pleasure of waiting for my pet murloc. Now that they have sent them out, I can't bring myself to even log on. Guess I'll just log on, grab the pets and cancel the two remaining accounts. Nerdraging likely, but I really don't like the shit on feeling I have right now and most of the time I get when dealing with Blizzard in the past year.

Granted, I'd still love to get two tickets to go. I may even just head down to hang out with peeps for the weekend and do the Disney thing on my corporate pass again.

- Souca -

[skooks]

Got my 2 tickets this weekend, will be my first time going.

Any pointers for a first time visitor to blizzcon?

I was also kinda wondering.... I get serious hate on Twisting Nether for running the 4 sham's around (one in particular said he would stab my face- my reply was my address and told him not to come during dinnertime) is there a really distinct attitude when you let out that you multibox? If I need to bring my sack of door knobs I would like a heads up!

Anyways I am really stoked and am hoping to meet some more boxers and see different views of the art.

[Mirina]

Skipping this year - sorta indifferent about not going. =\ We did the last 2 years, the first year was great, last year sucked (I wasn't active on the boards then, so I missed out on the Dula-Boxing.com dinner) because I spent more time in lines than what I should have, (3 hours in the store line, YEA!) and couldn't even get into most of the discussions I was interested in--I actually went back to my hotel room and read about announcements on the web--crappy trip overall.

I'll be buying the web stream and running it through to my family room TV--throwing an East Coast BlizzCon party at my house tho I've got some old guildies, current WoWers (some multiboxers), and RL friends coming over. I figure we'll grill, drink, watch BlizzCon from the comfort of the sofa, possibly do a drunk LAN party, and play Rock Band. I'm actually looking forward to it!

/been doing a lot of stuff to the house, so I wasn't really willing to pay 3K in plane tickets to fly out there, on top of the $200/night hotel (I'm picky, I stay at the Hilton, lol).
//Will make 2010--will also make sure all my friends save up and actually GO!

[Mirina]

Got my 2 tickets this weekend, will be my first time going.

Any pointers for a first time visitor to blizzcon?

I was also kinda wondering.... I get serious hate on Twisting Nether for running the 4 sham's around (one in particular said he would stab my face- my reply was my address and told him not to come during dinnertime) is there a really distinct attitude when you let out that you multibox? If I need to bring my sack of door knobs I would like a heads up!

Anyways I am really stoked and am hoping to meet some more boxers and see different views of the art.

Wear comfortable shoes :>

But seriously, there's a Target close by--I would recommend stopping in (assuming you're flying and not local) and grabbing some water and some granola bars to keep in your hotel room. The food is incredibly expensive at the Hall (to be expected). If you have a car, there's a GREAT shopping center right down the street with PF Changs, CPK, M&S Grill, Cheesecake Factory, etc. I went there several times for dinner. PACK COLD MEDICINE. You will need it because you are bound to catch something being around a ton of people with different hygiene expectations than yourself. I caught a nasty cold after the first day, and seriously wanted to shoot myself on the flight back home--I've never been in such pain in my life. Best airport (if flying) to fly into is SNA. It may cost a little more, but it's a very convienent airport.

The Hilton is a decent hotel. You pay for the "decency," but it's nice. There's a lot of events that people throw there too--there was a pool party last year, and a lot of the Blizz employees crash there too--they were hanging out in the bar after the Con wrapped in the evenings, and Neth checked in right after me (and she's sooo damn cute!). Try to NOT eat at the Hilton (also a given) because you get raped on the cost of food.

On the first day, I would wait about an hour after the doors open before heading over. The line was WHOA long last year, and I think I toured every part of the building while winding around to the front doors.

No laptops allowed in the halls. They do search bags. I took my work laptop (only thing small enough to fit in my luggage, my alienware is too big) and stuck it into the in-room safe when I wasn't there.

I didn't advertise that I multiboxed when I was there--I know Vyndree had bags made last year (was slightly behind her in the store line) and I'm sure that people would get pissed (gogo nerdrage) but I didn't really deal with any yambags about it. The only thing you'll have to probably deal with are the PvPers going on about how leet they are

Have a good trip!

[Ellay]

Kind of late trying to get tickets for this, I see they've sold out twice now in record timing and been dealing with RL stuff :cursing:

but... If someone has 2 tickets I can buy or knows of a way to obtain I'll be there this year