How to Buy Tickets to BlizzCon
Feeling lucky? The first of two batches of tickets to Blizzard’s major gaming convention, BlizzCon, goes on sale this week (Wednesday May 9th and Saturday May 12th). If you want to attend in person and see the level ?? Mike Morheim, you will face an onslaught of impatient zerg players who are also looking to collect tickets. Here are some tips you can try to maximize your chances:
Set an alarm
Obviously, you won’t get BlizzCon tickets if you ignore the alarm or otherwise oversleep it. And Blizzard dislikes sales time for its congress, especially for West Coast gamers – the bulk of BlizzCon’s target audience, given that the congress venue is in Anaheim, California.
BlizzCon tickets go on sale at 7:00 p.m. PT on Wednesday, May 9th and at 10:00 a.m. PT on Saturday, May 12th. You’ll want to be on the Universe website – the service that Blizzard uses to sell tickets this year – at least ten minutes in advance. sale time.
Tip from the pros: go to time.gov and enable formal synchronized time in the United States in the background, so you know exactly when you should begin mashed F5 (or press the refresh button in your browser) on the web-site ticket sales. As you get closer to ticket sales, your process will look something like this:
Create a Universe account now
You will save a lot of time if you are able to buy tickets by creating a Universe account in advance.
Click on this link , enter the email address and password you want to use, and … done. Check your inbox for a link to verify your email address and verify your account, and make sure you’re signed in to the Universe website early on the day you want to buy tickets.
You can’t pre-populate your Universe account with your billing information, alas, so don’t look for this option in your account settings.
Tickets are your top priority – don’t worry about anything else
If you’re fortunate enough to walk through BlizzCon’s virtual waiting room and land on the actual page where you have to enter your ticket purchase information, don’t let other side quests distract you from your main mission.
Since you have created a Universe account in advance, your name and email address should automatically appear on the ticket purchase page. You will need to choose how many tickets you want – you will receive up to four – and you will need to enter your credit card details in order to complete your purchase.
Don’t hesitate. This is almost a matter of course, but don’t be the kind of person who sits there and manually hunts and pecks a long credit card number. While you wait in line, copy your credit card information to your clipboard and paste it into the Universe ticketing window as quickly as possible. Then just enter a much smaller expiration date (which you already remember, huh?)
If the universe asks for your character’s name, don’t worry about it. You can provide this information later, if not at the convention itself, when you go to retrieve your badge. Don’t miss the opportunity to buy tickets because you’ve been too busy trying to remember the spelling “Acererak”, your level 110 undead warlock, or if you have two or three Es on your Caelestrasz server.
Assign all tickets to yourself
If you’re faced with the unenviable task of buying tickets for your BlizzCon group, here’s a quick tip: just put all tickets in your name. For example, when a ticketing system asks you what name you want to give each ticket, use your own. The name on the ticket only matters for collecting your badges, and it’s much easier to manage your group logistics if they are all in your name – if you know without a doubt that you will be at BlizzCon this year. …
Otherwise, you will waste precious time typing the names of your three friends. And if a friend finds out that he will not be able to attend the convention in a few months, you will not be able to change the name on the ticket after a certain date. Then, in order to collect that ticket, you will have to face the hassle of getting copies of their identification information (and ticket barcode) to show at the pick-up booth, and it just isn’t worth it. Put all the tickets in your name. Your friends can then ask Blizzard to retype tickets with their names (and character information) on the site.
Try using more than one laptop, computer, or browser to queue up tickets.
Multiboxing people in World of Warcraft isconstant . Why don’t you try the same approach with BlizzCon tickets?
You can increase the chances of you going through the Universe virtual waiting room by logging into your account (or by creating multiple accounts in the Universe – for example, just add “+ [text]” to the end of your regular Gmail address ) and log in from different browsers on different computers and laptops within reach of your main system.
In each of the “normal” and “incognito” modes, you should get two virtual queue seats multiplied by the number of browsers you use multiplied by the number of systems on which you use multiple browsers.
But I wouldn’t go crazy. Because tickets are served on a first come, first served basis, having too many options can result in unnecessary delay as you figure out which browser and machine successfully entered the BlizzCon ticket purchase window.
Call a friend (or guildmate)
One of the best ways to get BlizzCon tickets is to get others to help – your loved ones who don’t care about games, your roommates, or even your World of Warcraft guild members. Sit on a chat , on Slack, Discord , a stream of group messages, or even a short conference (so you don’t accidentally buy multiple pairs of tickets at the same time). If one of you gets to the buy tickets screen before the others, make him the raid leader, who must buy tickets for everyone else.
Do not give in to failure
If you didn’t kill the ticket boss on the first try, repeat the raid. Don’t forget the Saturday sale. Follow Blizzard’s social media accounts to see if they offer any other ticket sales besides this week.
Check out LFBlizzCon , / r / Blizzcon , / r / BlizzconPassExchange , BlizzCon Discord, and the BlizzCon 2018 unofficial Facebook group to see if anyone has tickets to part with (at face value, damn speculators).
You can also consider spending $ 750 on the BlizzCon Charity Dinner , which goes on sale May 16, if you absolutely need a ticket to BlizzCon at any price. It will be much easier for you to buy tickets to charity events, given their higher price, than the insane buzz that comes with buying tickets to BlizzCon.