Blizzard fans have zerg-rushed the Blizzard website into submission over tickets to BlizzCon 08, so Blizzard has come up with a solution to sell the tickets in waves.

Did you ever play “Red light / Green light” as a kid, where you can only run forward when the “it” person says go? Seems that’s the game Blizzard is playing with its BlizzCon 08 registration.

As we reported earlier, Blizzard reinstated the ticket sales at 3:50 p.m. ET, after problems caused ticket sales to be put on hold earlier this week.

Within 30 minutes, however, the tickets were listed on the Blizzard store as sold out. Tough luck chumps.

Oh wait, GREEN LIGHT.

Tickets were back up.

RED LIGHT. Sold out, suckers.

Turns out this process is going to continue, as the overwhelming response has forced Blizzard to switch between sold out and available until the tickets are actually all gone.

And for those who don’t have the time/patience to play Blizzard’s little game, there is hope that the company will offer a second chance like they did with their World Wide Invitational.

Tags: Blizzard, BlizzCon, BlizzCon 08, sold out, unavailable, World-of-Warcraft

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