wilcoxon wrote:
The Origins system is definitely not ideal but I highly prefer it to GenCon (not to mention the horrific GenCon housing system). With GenCon, if you don't get your queue in literally the second it goes live, you will have events sold out (and the last 2-3 times I went to GenCon, my submit got stuck on submit and never in the queue so I lost out on events every single time even though I was sitting at my computer hitting submit the moment I could).
UGH. Connection issues to servers and databases is never a good thing. There is no perfect system, but the 'wish list' ahead of time then submit on registration day is a much better design than the 'hope you get and keep a connection on this wildly under-powered server'. GenCon has much better hardware and software running their system. I got events for that yesterday in less than 20 mins while being the 3300+ customer in line, and I did not have to do anything besides submit. It took me more than half an hour to get events today and I had to watch a server get stalled out about a million times and myself hit reload about 617 times. And get double booked, double charged, and have to start over multiple times. And GenCon's load was was probably 100 times that of Origin's. If PCI wasn't so well treated by Origins I'd gladly drop this convention forever.
And the housing system was completely different than event registration for GenCon.