I didn't realize that we had so many entitled people playing this game. Just because you buy the ships doesn't mean you get to go to "Worlds". It's awesome that someone was trying to put together a party bus to make a few stops and pick up people to all travel together; however, asking for guaranteed tickets for himself or those bus travelers would set the worst prescient for next year. Tons of people would be building bus groups to have their set tickets "saved" then what, FFG will only give tickets to certain bus groups? Technically speaking, ever event is a "Worlds" because they are open to anyone to travel to, the difference with this one is that the tournament has highly exclusive prizes.

Yes, they have a limited space for their events and X-wing should pretty much be its own thing at this point. I am guessing that FFG had a much higher number of requests for tickets this year than they realized. They should use that information to their advantage to plan for next year and review how large of a space they can secure. Or change the format to be the X-wing Worlds invitational and only allow the top players through Regionals/Nationals/System Opens to attend since those would be the best players in the world. Then have a separate event aligned with other game's World Tournaments (aka the prior mentioned FFG-Con)

Agreed, FFG granting a block of tickets to some players because they are willing to get a bus would be a terrible precedent, and would have created an unsustainable model next year when more requests got filed for similar things.


I don't see why everyone is so salty about this year's Worlds "lottery." The same group of people who had reserved seats to previous years (e.g. big event winners) still had reserved seats this year. And the lottery system isn't in practice a whole lot different from having everyone logging onto to a poorly supported site that crashes for some and works for others and still generally results in a seemingly random distribution of tickets with lots of people who wanted them not getting them. At least the lottery system let people apply ahead of time, so those with less reliable access to the internet or who had work/family obligations when tickets went live weren't as disadvantaged. The lottery sucks, sure, but I actually think it sucks less than past years.

I live in the US and I have to pay a lot of money and fly if I want to go to worlds. I don't HAVE the option to drive (it'd take me like a week to get there). I can't feel too sorry about Toronto not getting any reserved tickets for the bus...

2 minutes ago, VanderLegion said:

I live in the US and I have to pay a lot of money and fly if I want to go to worlds. I don't HAVE the option to drive (it'd take me like a week to get there). I can't feel too sorry about Toronto not getting any reserved tickets for the bus...

Indeed, a majority of people in the US are further from Minneapolis than those in the Toronto region, especially because the US population is so loaded on the coasts.

2 hours ago, Boba Rick said:

22 hour drive for me.

25 for me.

so "convenient."

Its almost as if the highest tournament in the game should have qualifying events where you earn your seat at the big kids table, rather than being upset that you randomly didn't get the opportunity to go.

I think it';s too bad that the party bus got cancelled, just from the epic podcasts that would have come from it. I do agree that FFG could not have given them preferential treatment. I bet they just asked for it on a whim to see if it would work out.

On 3/31/2018 at 2:31 PM, Tb0ned said:

You are 100% wrong. A group of your consumers reaches out 6 months in advance trying to plan something like this, you say yes, highlight the **** out of to show you actually listen and care about said consumers, and just make the event bigger.

1 hour ago, tron999 said:

I think it';s too bad that the party bus got cancelled, just from the epic podcasts that would have come from it. I do agree that FFG could not have given them preferential treatment. I bet they just asked for it on a whim to see if it would work out.

Except it seems like they really did expect special treatment. Which is absolutely ridiculous, especially sin ce msp is closer for Canadians than ameri cans.

I think it might be a space battle over there!

9 hours ago, Commander Kaine said:

I think it might be a space battle over there!

Meanwhile, in Australia, the search for even one system open continues...

22 hours ago, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

And the lottery system isn't in practice a whole lot different from having everyone logging onto to a poorly supported site that crashes for some and works for others and still generally results in a seemingly random distribution of tickets with lots of people who wanted them not getting them.

This system as it was implemented was several orders of magnitude worse than what was in place last year. Just how it made it impossible to make travel plans for non-US players who didn't get in on the first try is enough to make that assessment.

I've been noticing at least as a personal anecdote that most people I know where able to get into X-Wing on the 2nd round of ticket sales (a few didn't), and that everyone I know that wanted a ticket for Imperial Assault got one.

That tells me that more than likely there was a significant amount of people who a) signed up for events they had no real intention of buying tickets for, b) people gaming the system with multiple emails/names to get better chance of getting into the lottery, and c) griefers signing up for no other reason than to flood the pool of applicants (yes, people like this exist).

While it's fortunate it looks like most people who did want to get into X-Wing were able to do so on the 2nd try, this should be looked at as a complete failure of the system in place .

Without 1) some sort of controls on applying (either mandatory pre-payment for events or otherwise filtering people trying to game the system) and 2) a registration schedule that allows people to adequately plan to make travel plans, the current system is unacceptable.

11 hours ago, miguelj said:

While it's fortunate it looks like most people who did want to get into X-Wing were able to do so on the 2nd try, this should be looked at as a complete failure of the system in place .

Sigh. I must not be most people. Click-festing at 1200 CDT on 31 March netted me nothing.

The solution is simple; rotate the location of worlds.........you know around the world; like other world events.............like every other world event in the world.

or rename the event to remove salt.