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DOTA 2 |OT9| League of Ancients (6.84)
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Emerson
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A literally meaningless restriction to botters.
Whatever at least they're starting at 350 on eBay so they'll go down from here. I can afford that if I have to, and I already have hotel and flights booked.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Scalpers are truly disgusting
mastershake
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Yeah if they come down to around $200-250 ill just bite the bullet if i can't secure any from the 2nd batch
Emerson
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200 is what I paid last year anyway so w/e bros
Meh, Valve underpriced the tickets, thereby creating an arbitrage opportunity. I'm not sure I can fault people for exploiting it.
Emerson
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Honestly though it's a 6 day event 100 dollars is a ridiculously cheap price.
Haunted
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hunt these people down
Gentle Rodriguez
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Yo damn that's cheap. Would totally go if I didn't live in fucking Europe.
waxinlyrical
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Fair warning: $99 is the ticket price, but there's a $15 service fee, a $12 facility charge, and a $6.25 processing fee.
Kinda ridiculous how much all these extra fees are.
Emerson
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Oh trust me man I'm right there with you. Sat there staring at it for a long time and it was instantly gone.
One of these days companies will stop using Ticketmaster for events like these.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Have it read the amount of hours of Dota you've played and then give you a quiz to make. Your combined score determines your placement in the queue.
How about the submitter of a custom game mode!
Welp, I overslept and missed the first round, I'm not optimistic about the second.
Lots of things you can take into consideration. Hours played, number of years on steam, amount of stuff purchased on the marketplace, community involvement, previous TI views/compendium ownership. Valve wants to give benefits to its fans. The International seems like a good venue to practice that.
Just a pipe dream, I know.
I'm cranky since I woke up and missed sleep and now no tickets too
call_kotaku
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Scalpers are the DDoS kiddies of real life events. Sure it's technically their fault for being assholes, but they're merely exploiting flaws in the system that other people neglect to address.
I wonder why more events don't tie tickets to credit card numbers or some other form of identification, though I suppose making customers hand out a massive amount of personal information isn't great either. Though it might just be how Key Arena operates and even though Valve realizes it's an obvious problem it's something that's outside of their control, which is why it's not some ridiculously convoluted thing tied to Steam like it probably otherwise would be.
I wonder why more events don't tie tickets to credit card numbers or some other form of identification, though I suppose making customers hand out a massive amount of personal information isn't great either. Though it might just be how Key Arena operates and even though Valve realizes it's an obvious problem it's something that's outside of their control, which is why it's not some ridiculously convoluted thing tied to Steam like it probably otherwise would be.
Cyborgmatt
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First batch sold out in 6 minutes.
rhophiehalul78
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GG Mana Fiend. I don't know how you ended up in our lobby but we were missing 1 player so it was nice someone got lost in our lobby lol.
agreed. Ticketmaster is pretty scummy. the fees are 1/3rd of the ticket price! and it's already an expensive ticket. ugh
shira
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Dat 6 min rampage. Is there any numbers on total tickets like is it 5000/5000 split on the batches?
SteveWinwood
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people forget that ti3 tickets were tied to accounts and sold through steam
it was also a mess because it's not like their servers are all that amazing
i dont blame them for just putting it over to ticketmaster (hell that might even be a key arena thing)
also they're in a tough spot price wise because they don't want to make the price the reason someone cant go but the lower it is the more scalpers you get
they would probably love to make it free because of the amount of money they would make on secret shop goods if those werent limited as well
it was also a mess because it's not like their servers are all that amazing
i dont blame them for just putting it over to ticketmaster (hell that might even be a key arena thing)
also they're in a tough spot price wise because they don't want to make the price the reason someone cant go but the lower it is the more scalpers you get
they would probably love to make it free because of the amount of money they would make on secret shop goods if those werent limited as well
agreed. Ticketmaster is pretty scummy. the fees are 1/3rd of the ticket price! and it's already an expensive ticket. ugh
$99 is really really cheap IMO.
That's $17 a day, people pay that much to watch a 90 minute film.
I had to sell my TI3 ticket, and the guy tried to scam me so hard for it. First tried to get me to trade him the ticket (I had activated it though, so I was selling the physical ticket Valve let you print out), then he accepted an email of the PDF, then filed a claim that his paypal account was breached and he wanted to charge back. Luckily I have like the only case of Paypal support being helpful. I explained to them what I did, the guy at Paypal said what I needed to do was to print it out and mail a physical copy to the guy with delivery conformation to have proof that the ticket was sent and thus not resellable, and they would honor their buyer's protection. Got my money, and like 3 weeks later the letter got returned to me with it being undeliverable anyway.
Emerson
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agreed. Ticketmaster is pretty scummy. the fees are 1/3rd of the ticket price! and it's already an expensive ticket. ugh
It's pretty cheap for what you get but seriously you'll probably be going for free anyway
Emerson
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Prices seemed about the same to me, aside from the fact that it's several days longer.
I paid $130 a night last year, same hotel wants $250 a night this year...
Monochromaticx
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wow C9 might win this.
Emerson
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Where did you stay?
Not if EE has anything to say about it!
Belltown Inn, about a 10 min walk away from KeyArena, but also close to nice food/drink options downtown and the light link train system.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Shorty11857
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Why is EE not leveling his Q? He's level 23
shira
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Did you try one of those metasearch sites like expedia? Hotels always have deals.
yeah I am aware of the cost to entertainment ratio of TI5, but I'm mainly comparing it to normal concert tickets ($10-$17) since that's what I'm used to. My point is that a 30%+ charge on top of the ticket itself feels incredibly unreasonable.
I did but I'm still not looking super seriously, since I might not go and would rather not deal with hotel/airlines cancellations. I just need to sit down with my boss and demand a single week of vacation time :\
Shorty11857
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C9 win every team fight and then get nothing from it
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