CCI To Test New Badge Registration

JK Parkin wrote up the details so I don't have to. For those of you wondering what this is about, Comic-Con International has tried a couple of times now to puts its badges on sale, but the intense interest in those badges -- a combination of growing, natural demand and a sort of low-level panic, a panic that may indeed be justified, that you have to get on these tickets immediately or risk having them sell out underneath you -- has overwhelmed the systems that CCI has thus far employed to facilitate the badge sales. The latest they're trotting out is a two-step process, and they're wanting to try it out with a thousand test subjects -- information through the link.

This is an intriguing story in a sense, although it's pretty straight-forward and there's an eventual outcome where tons of people attend a sold-out convention so it's hard to gauge the appropriate level of drama with which it should be greeted. I would imagine the problem isn't just the physical failure of the ticket-selling tries but the frustration it engenders among the show's biggest fans and the primary group of people the convention wishes to serve (I hate to break this to comics insiders and Hollywood types, but the show needs to serve its paid attendees first). Plus I have to imagine it's just annoying to have your stuff not work. Let's hope for an efficient, equitable outcome.
 
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