Tickets For Comic-Con All Gone In Less Than An Hour


If you were hoping to get tickets for San Diego Comic-Con 2012 then you’re out of luck. Tickets for the prestigous fanboy event have sold out in less than an hour. Tickets went on sale at 8AM PST and 4-day passes for the convention ran out roughly half an hour later, and in the next 10 minutes all the single day passes disappeared as well. Read the statement issued by Comic-Con below,

“Comic-Con 2012 badges are sold out. Although our site and EPIC’s registration site was able to handle the load of customers wishing to purchase a badge, the conduit between the link in the email and the registration site was overwhelmed and service was intermittent for a short period of time. However, the link was not incorrect and was not dead, and once the volume of hits decreased it worked as planned. There will be a chance to purchase refunded and returned badges at a later date. Thank you!”

Am I suprised? No. Last year’s badge hunt resulted in some 403,000 page requests per minute, so there’s no way of knowing what kind of demand was felt this year, with the new Member ID system leaving some people already out of the lottery, and it took 7 hours for them all to sell out last year.