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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herschel" data-source="post: 5149678" data-attributes="member: 78357">I've been there a few times and outside of DDM, I never really signed up for much and what I did was late and kind of random. This year I decided I wanted to play some LFR and RPGA stuff as well as maybe a few organized board games too for/with my girlfriend.  So there I was Sunday morning/afternoon on the site and with my watch list open. Cable internet, newer laptop and IE were raring to go. 11:00 CDT hits and....crash! Luckily I think one of my VIG friends got us True Dungeon tickets in an alternate time slot which meant re-doing Thursday and Friday's afternoon/evening potential schedules, but we'll see. I finally was able to get back to my Watch List about 12:40 CDT.  So the 1:00 CDT event open was coming, I had a few open windows and the GF had one or two also and....a whole lot more nothing. Crashed every time we tried to select/order tickets. A friend of mine luckily got through and got me tickets for the few RPGA events along with his after numerous, numerous attempts. I finally had to walk away from the PC after a little more than an hour (over three from the 11:00 opening) while he was trying because I caught myself actually yelling "JUST LET ME BUY SOME <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> TICKETS TO ANYTHING YOU STUPID <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />!!!!!!!!" (sans abbreviations in real life). I left the house and ran some errands. I was finally able to get some tickets to my cart around 4:30 but whenever I tried to check out it would crash again! It was some time after 10:00 pm when I was able to actually buy my first set of tickets, but a glitch had left tickets for three events in limbo that I got an e-mail about a few minutes later saying I should check my cart because they had been found. So I went back in and got those also. I was so dissatisfied I was almost ready to eat my badge, cancel my hotel reservation and stay home. I hear last year was almost as bad. The pre-registration system is a joke. They obviously need to do more load testing, rent more servers, etc. to avboid this total clusterfrak of a process leaving customers frustrated. Obviously they still get enough people registering and they have no idea how many customers they lose because they simply do get fed up with the system.  I know I had a number of things I needed to get done around the house yesterday afternoon and was able to finish almost none because of trying to register for events. Needless to say, I wasn't the only unhappy person there. A boycott would be a great way to show them it is not acceptible to be treated like that, but I know it's not realistic. Still, I really wish there was some way to make them get their crap together and deliver a decent service instead of the crashing cattle call they have.</blockquote>

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