BlizzCon 2008 Ticket Lottery Planned

The BlizzCon 2008 Website
has a statement from Blizzard's Mike Morhaime about the stream of problems that
plagued their attempts to put tickets on sale for BlizzCon 2008 earlier this week
(story, story, story,
story, story, and story). Word is
they've scraped together an additional 3000 tickets, which will be distributed
via lottery to folks that had registered Blizzard accounts at the time the
tickets were sold out:On behalf of everyone at Blizzard, I want to
apologize for the challenges and frustrations you experienced while trying to
purchase BlizzCon tickets on Monday and Tuesday. BlizzCon is about the positive
experiences you all have had with Blizzard games. As a result of this week's
events, the excitement that many of you felt about the show has turned into
dissatisfaction and disappointment.

Due to these circumstances, we've reevaluated our convention hall space and come
up with some solutions that will allow us to offer 3,000 more tickets for sale.
We know this will not be enough to satisfy the very high level of demand for
tickets this year, but we want to ensure that BlizzCon remains a great
experience for those of you who are able to attend. To avoid the issues many of
you faced this week, we'll be selling these 3,000 via a lottery. We'll post
further details once our plans are finalized. Please note that the lottery will
only be open to those with an active Blizzard Account as of 9:00 PM PDT on
August 12, the time that the “Sold Out” notice was posted.

I, and everyone else at Blizzard, share the frustration and disappointment that
many of you have expressed as a result of this process. We'll do what it takes
to avoid this type of situation in the future.


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