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I got a ticket-- been lucky the last four years. Frustrating experience every year. I "got" a ticket three times, but Google Wallet times out and wouldn't let me buy the first two. The third time around (after waiting in the queue), I noticed an ajax request being fired when you clicked the "buy" button (which would become disabled.... it would time out and it would still sit there as if it were doing something. Reen…
Three people (including me) from my team were attempting to get tickets. We were all on the page 30 minutes before opening and entered the queue within seconds of opening. 2 of us never got anything other than the looking for tickets page multiple times. 1 of us got to the payment page on one attempt only to have it fail. It's frustrating that we should each spend 1.5 hours of time to babysit what is essentially a lo…
Really, a lottery would have saved tons of engineer hours.
I'm pretty sure this outcome is exactly what Google wants. Hardest tickets to get in town, even with a $900 price tag. Why else would they continue to give away such great swag at an event with such high demand? On the up side, streaming basically the entire event for free does calm the righteous indignation to a degree. Still, it would have been nice to get a chance to meet and chat with other people working on the…