Registration Experience (Good or bad?)

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

The worse part about this is that I'm trying to do this at work and not get caught!!

Beldar

I think we all are.

Gotta love my desk job!

 

[Quickbeam]

Nothing, nothing, nothing. It's down again is my bet.

 

[Derfel]

The worse part about this is that I'm trying to do this at work and not get caught!!

Beldar

me too. Thankfully I usually need to be at my computer all day clicking on stuff, and my screen doesn't point at a door


I'm slowly getting events though

 

[Sidereal Knight]

Well, it looks like this will make two years where I don't get into ANY events I'm interested in... no Mutants & Masterminds, no Call of Cthulhu, nothing. I may as well wait until next week and just by Generic tickets.

*sigh*

 

[beldar1215]

Well, it looks like this will make two years where I don't get into ANY events I'm interested in... no Mutants & Masterminds, no Call of Cthulhu, nothing. I may as well wait until next week and just by Generic tickets.

*sigh*

I'm thinking the same thing. I think it would be almost better if they sent out a catalog and poeple sent their registration back by snail mail. Thats how all the cons in my area do things. May not work for something this big, but I think it would be better than the crap I'm going through now.

Beldar

 

[beldar1215]

I've been defeated. I'm giving up for awhile. I'm still going to keep this thread open and see if anyone has any luck, so I can log back on!

Beldar

 

[Sidereal Knight]

I'm thinking the same thing. I think it would be almost better if they sent out a catalog and poeple sent their registration back by snail mail. Thats how all the cons in my area do things. May not work for something this big, but I think it would be better than the crap I'm going through now.

Beldar

I can see your point, unfortunately that would probably be a LOT more expensive and prone to error (believe it or not!) than the online reg system.

The main issue I have with their system is that it is not robust enough to handle the real-life demands.

 

[The_Universe]

I can see your point, unfortunately that would probably be a LOT more expensive and prone to error (believe it or not!) than the online reg system.

The main issue I have with their system is that it is not robust enough to handle the real-life demands.

After four years, you'd think they'd be smart enough to *expect* a crush of registrations over the first day. There are established patterns, and the appearance is that they've done nothing to prepare for a well-known phenomenon. They may have upgraded the system a great deal, but if it's still only "upgraded" to the point where it can effective deal with 100 users at a time (and we know there's WAY more trying to get on as we speak) a little faster than it did the year before, the real problem has not been addressed.

It's like living in Southern Florida, and just assuming that there won't be a hurricane. "Sure, there's been one EVERY YEAR, but this year, I bet we're due for peace." Absolutely asinine.

 

[Mandor]

After 5 hours with absolutely no progress at all last night, I was finally able to add events to my cart a few minutes ago. Of course, all my tier 1 events are already sold out...

 

[hexgrid]

Success

I'm done!

Unfortunately, this doesn't mean the system is working any better yet. I just kept trying each step of the process over and over and over until it finally went through. I got every thing I wanted except for one of the Iron Lore demos. I even got two tickets to one of the (very few) Shadowrun 4e events.