C3 site Crashed!

I really doubt there would be a problem with badges, as far as I know there's no limit, and despite our experience there at CII, we will not fill the convention center (there are much larger conventions than this, believe it or not.

The reason everyone is trying to register today is not badges, it's hotel rooms.

You can order your badge the week before if you want.

 

I highly doubt there will be a limited number of badges. They will still be selling them at the door.

Luckily I made a room reservation months ago but was hoping to get a new one through the fan club at a more reasonable price. Alas, I haven't even been able to register with GenCon yet either.

C'est la vie....

 

I've been experiencing gateway timeouts and errors as well, very frustrating. I was able to register at the GenCon site but everytime I try to puchase CIII tickets it times out...

 

This is just insane...I was refreshing and found out about the need to register not only YOURSELF but any guest you were going to buy a ticket for about 20 minutes before noon... thankfully I was able to get registered but getting tickets has been a joke. 3.5hrs so far...

What on earth possessed GenCon to open up registration 20 min before passes went on sale???? Did they not have a single network geek there telling them they had a 'bad feeling' about that?! Honestly!

I think I'd rather be sitting on the phone.

 

I am still trying to log in..web site not responding.
All this would have been a non problem if we had been informed of having to register with gencon. I thought we were buying through C3 site.
I also got the software error and sent the message to them.

 

Finally. Got the topper and the 4 day badge.

 

how long did it take you Jeff?

 

I'd been trying since a half hour before it even was supposed to be open.

Once I got to the page to add my badge, things went a lot quicker.

Also, there seem to be plenty of hotel rooms still open.

 

I managed to get my badge and hotel reserved too. Took me over 3 hours (I also started early, around 2:45pm), but eventually it all went through.

I know it's hard to be patient, and it's hard not to get frustrated, but since there's nothing you can do to change the situation you might as well keep hitting refresh/reload/back with a smile on your face.

(easy to say, in retrospect, because I definitely wasn't smiling myself )

 

finally .. finally i got my badges!!! and it only took 3 and half hours

 

well I finally got logged in but now i am stuck at the 'buy the badge' link. 3.5hrs and clocking
I click on it and it keeps saying the web site is not responding.

 

<takes out big hammer and smashes GenCon upside the head>

 

All this just to give these guys a hundred bucks?

 

I hear ya, I got registered at 12:16 and am still trying to buy my pass...these accesses are side by side, sand people always access single file, to hide their numbers.

 

There's just no hiding these numbers.

 

Its a good thing that I booked my room back in April. Because if I did not right now i would be on pissed of person.

I first tried at 3:30 est time and keep getting the reload page. So I came back 3 hours later and tries agin. An once agin I got the reload page.

With what happened with ShopStarWars.com you think that some one would have learned there leason.

The only thing we can do is keep trying. Maybe Wednesday things will be better.

 

It looks like the main problem is with the Gencon reg site. The C III site is ok for me right now.

Luckily I waited a few hours and got in fairly smoothly, only took me about 30 minutes total.

 

I am still logged in but cannot get past the link for 'buy your badge' it is nearly five hours and I am afraid to logg out and not be able to get back in so I keep clicking the refresh and get 'web site not responding'.

AWK!! THEY LOGGED ME OUT! FIVE HOURS AND NO BADGE..

 

Wow -- now I'm getting a software error when I get to the "add to cart" page. Lovely.

 

I was FINALLY able to get my badge and hotel. I wish all of you the best of luck in dealing with that website. There's no excuse for this Gencon. You should have been ready.

 

I think I'll try tomorrow...If I register now I'll probably be here until at least midnight before I get my pass and a room!!!...For a convention of this size, you'd think they would have been a little better prepared!!!...

 

&^%& ****ing *&^%$ ()&&&^* &$$holes *&^!@

 

Is this fun or what.

And it only coast 100 dollars to play

 

I got the software error message, too, after several server time outs.

I'm sorry, why the [CENSORED] do I need a login name from GenCon? And after I get one I have to buy the registration separately? And why do you need TWO PAGES to register a [CENSORED] user name!? Grrr... I'm telling you, this will be my first and ONLY Celebration!!!

 

well,I finally almost made it all the way through after have been trying to do it since 12:00 PST. BUT !!! Then I get to the payment processing part and get the software error.

now i can't get re-signed in.