lemur wrote:just imagine how bad itd be if they hadnt have spaced this stuff out... it was planned this way in november.. they surely might have guessed that they might have some shitstorm go down where theyd need a few weeks to figure out what to do..
theyve saved themselves some wiggle room!
if they had spilled all the beans in one go in january.. then people would probably be hoping for a long drawn out soap opera!
Are you kidding me???? I would kill to have this already done with. I would love to know on day one, either I have a ticket or don't and can then go about trying scrounge one up if I don't. As it is, I have to wait for STEP and see if that pans out, wait till March for round 3, wait for tickets to actually get mailed in fucking June (are you kidding me?) to see once people actually have physical tickets in hand what they do with them.
And why do I have to do this (i.e. why can't I scrounge for a ticket now?) Because everyone is doing the same thing.
The scarcity clusterfuck that this process created (I don't want to hear about the excess demand, that is obvious and not what I'm referring to) has led people to quietly hold their tickets to see how things shake out. Because of the unknowns regarding these various steps, people are sitting on tickets. I know this from anecdotal evidence but also its common sense to anyone with any understanding of human psychology. If you had a highly valuable commodity that all of your friends wanted, and maybe you're dating some girl/guy and want to see if it works out before inviting them later in the year, or maybe your brother decides this year he finally wants to go, etc., would you just throw it back into STEP? Would you even tell your friends about it? You'd probably hold onto it as it might come in handy later and see what comes up... Maybe your best friend still can't get a ticket by July and you can hook him up but giving him the ticket now when he still has a chance through STEP/sale #3 is actually a waste....
Do you see what I am getting at? As long as there are more sequences to go, there is no incentive in giving up these tickets that people are sitting on. This system by its very nature incentivizes people holding onto tickets whether they need them or not for quite a long time. Ticket-holders are actually better-off by holding the ticket till after all the ticket liquidation processes have ended, it maximizes their options in an option-constrained environment.... Again, this just pushes everything out making it more difficult to pull off something at the event.... Its quite clear to me that any real clarity on the ticketing situation will not come until after sale #3... That would be fine if it were for BM2013. Unfortunately its for an event thats only a few months away at this point and requires months and months of planning for most sizable groups.
I think people are failing to appreciate the consequences of the various steps of this whole process given the supply/demand situation. And yes, some Game Theory expertise would really help here (as even Maid Marian acknowledged, even if you, Trilo, Jester, etc. don't)
Ok rant, over...
