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Three people (including me) from my team were attempting to get tickets. We were all on the page 30 minutes before opening and entered the queue within seconds
by FlyingAvatar 14y ago
Three people (including me) from my team were attempting to get tickets. We were all on the page 30 minutes before opening and entered the queue within seconds of opening.
2 of us never got anything other than the looking for tickets page multiple times.
1 of us got to the payment page on one attempt only to have it fail.
It's frustrating that we should each spend 1.5 hours of time to babysit what is essentially a lottery.
If it's going to work like a lottery, then just make it one.
- ozgung 14y agoThis was a global waste of developer time resource.
- kyrra 14y agomyself and 3 others at my company did the same. Everyone but me got a ticket. One of them was hit by the google wallet problem, but just closed and re-opened that popup and got it to go through on the 4th attempt.
- doodyhead 14y agoTwo in our company were on it also. Started within seconds of it opening and went through the 6-minute process 7 or 8 times. Neither of us even got to the Wallet stage. I managed to get one last year on my third attempt but I was using multiple browser windows. They had a clear warning about that this time, so we stuck to one tab each in the vain hope that it would give us some priority or preference. I will try again next year. The uncertainty makes it hard to plan though, given that I'm living in Ireland. Freebies are nice and all but would happily forgo them or pay 3-4x the ticket price to be able to attend.
- mycodebreaks 14y agoI had to go through the same experience. I started my first ticket search at 7 AM pacific time sharp. I kept staring and clicking on button only to see sold out message finally. Really, a lottery would have saved tons of engineer hours.