Fun fact: our friend group tried buying tickets on ANY of these first wave dates, and we got none. We were mid way on our queues and already checking people posting that tickets were out
@Aitchless_Cris2 ай бұрын
same here with 3 friends of mine. We queued up 1 hour in advance but nothing
@corne-mlg18472 ай бұрын
@@Aitchless_Cris same with me also, although i sat in que for 40 mins from it opened to queuing to just see that non was available when I got in
@florianhug80692 ай бұрын
@@Aitchless_Cris With AXS you can't "queue up one h in advance..." you get assigned a random spot in the queue once the sale starts. And with the ammount of people being likely 10s of times higher than availalbe tickets. only a small amount actually were able to buy. Also because its just the first wave of tickets. so next to bots, it was really just a numbers game / bad luck
@joelsola74332 ай бұрын
Yep, same here. We waited since the very start, and had to leave with our hands empty. And we were set to buy the tickets at almost any pricing, but NOT to this bs resellers.
@laplace39452 ай бұрын
same here :(
@jackcobalt20052 ай бұрын
Riot games be like "we sold all tickets!!! so WHY is nobody here?!" Well that is what happens if u have no bot protection (i mean reseller are disgusting assholes too)
@Squeek8012 ай бұрын
I kind of hope that happens, just to show how big a problem it is. But alas, there are people out there who will pay the scalpers and justify their disgusting practices.
@LettucePlate2 ай бұрын
@@Squeek801 Tbh if I had the money to attend at scalping price I would. I care way more about having an experience I'll remember for a long time than "sticking it to the man". Sports and concert tickets have been scalped by botters for decades. It's not Riot's fault and nobody is going to stop it any time soon since the ticket platforms get a cut of all the resales.
@onam30002 ай бұрын
Not just no bot protection but also way too underpriced tickets. If Riot set the ticket prices to a reasonable point there would be less incentive for scalping. For reference the WWE tickets 2 days later in O2 are selling for roughly the same price despite the fact that a LoL Worlds finals has 10-20 times the viewership of an average WWE event (the vast majority of this is Chinese viewership but similar argument can be made for WWE/US)
@eduardothomazl2 ай бұрын
Here in Brazil, most of tickets available for the CBLOL 2024.2 finals were bought by BOTs and people who always buy a lot of tickets to resell them later at higher price, like more than five times the initial price.
@RedstoneRailroadRR2 ай бұрын
Scalpers are a special kind of bastards. Anything nice you want.. a simple $50 concert ticket? Nah $300. A PS5 for $400? Nah make that $2,000. How have governments and bossiness not figured out a solution for this???
@RApollos1072 ай бұрын
“Our expectations were low, but holy fuck”
@Tenomas2 ай бұрын
Riot games always has been
@Leotherin2 ай бұрын
RITOOOO RITOOOOOO
@sonnenblume42 ай бұрын
Tried the 3 days. Failed. I was excited to visit the UK and go with a friend now that I can afford an expensive trip. And now, we gotta wait for OCTOBER to know if we can get tickets or not, 3 weeks before the event. Very fun to plan hotel and flight 3 weeks in advance lol
@pvinkreverie2 ай бұрын
Hope you guys can get them, though 🙏
@EarlHare2 ай бұрын
Riot does this shit every single year and they simply don't listen.
@TheMrleeyang2 ай бұрын
But you can afford an expensive trip, so last minute higher prices should be no big deal. Happy Worlds this year!
@SaSo-mk6yh2 ай бұрын
Trust me uk is dookie
@sepienipelihullu2 ай бұрын
I’m just swapping going to worlds to a trip to London to see friends
@lastsinnersa80022 ай бұрын
Plot twist - The Akali 100T emote was really about having no Mastercard.
@lorenzotamagnini53622 ай бұрын
After miserably failing in the attempt of purchasing the tickets, I was hoping this video would have given me some kind of answers about the selling system and stuff, I'm happy to see even Necrit could't figure this out :)
@riachuelo43402 ай бұрын
2024 and we still haven't solved ticket sales? Maybe someday.
@frequencynz57782 ай бұрын
Living in the UK going to london to see worlds was allways a dream. We signed up for pre sale, and general sale reminders. 4 of us had logged on within 1 second of them going on sale. None of us got tickets. None were available within the initial few seconds. All bots. Immediately placed online for resale at typically 3-5 times the amount.
@ljmax86932 ай бұрын
I really wanted to go to my friend that lives in London so we could meet and go for the Finals. I even did my passport! When I saw notafication on my email that O2 is selling tickets they were already sold out. It saddens me. I really wanted a good time and it's all ruined by peoples greed.
@yaboiaxl12162 ай бұрын
same exact situation here (except that my friend doesn't live in london exactly but close to it) Here's to hoping I'll be able to grab tickets in october and then still be able to afford the flights 3 weeks in advance...
@lcdc_azuralie2 ай бұрын
Seriously hope the resellers just loose a ton of money. Best we can do is not buy them so they stop stealing them from people. Or have no reselling policy on their tickets (aka your ticket is bound to your identity and ID card)
@Hanclok2 ай бұрын
Exact same situation, thank you RIOT
@Dephyh2 ай бұрын
I can't believe riot has such a poor ticket sale system. Some content creators who planned events, like the french youtuber Squeezie with the GP explorer (a racing event), and sold tickets usually had some kind of identification linked to the buyers. This prevented resale and was only allowed through a platforms put in place by the organizers who would keep the tickets at the same price to avoid scalpers.
@yaboiaxl12162 ай бұрын
This is not on riot as far as I'm aware. When booking a venue you have to sell the tickets via the venues dedicated partner. This is O2 Arena and AXS's fault
@wizirbyman2 ай бұрын
this is not a riot issue at all lol it's 100% the ticket/venue's issue and this issue happens ALL the time when people try to buy concert or event tickets. it's truly a lottery trying to get tickets and unless you're willing to pay for VIP tickets when they first drop, you're most likely going to be stuck buying super upcharged tickets from scalpers =/
@Dephyh2 ай бұрын
@@wizirbyman I see ty for clarifying.
@Javano_2 ай бұрын
Supposedly AXS's website is known for being absolutely horrid -- and always getting instantly cleaned-out by scalpers. Not much Riot could do, if O2 has them contractually-obligated into using their service.
@Thanniah-T2 ай бұрын
Yeah, same with most Formula 1 tickets. They are not getting grabbed by scalpers. There are securities. It might also be because those events can host 100 000 peoples a day. So I don't see why the show and music industry keep being so dishonest about it.
@duduwt2 ай бұрын
0:10 MMO copium mentioned lesgoooo
@Ttangko_2 ай бұрын
30min analysis video inc
@cisimancz4402 ай бұрын
Worst thing was that if 1 bot got true queue then all bots got true, because they could just copy link and paste it to other bots. yes you heard right, the link after getting true queue works for everyone. so they made it even more easily for bots get more tickets.
@TwinklingMysticShot2 ай бұрын
Yeah heard thay is how friendgroups got tickets too if they were really lucky and one of them got trough early they would share the link with friends so the whole group could buy which is good for them but not good when the bots do it qwq
@alexwindy32 ай бұрын
@@TwinklingMysticShot thats how we did it. One of us got fast through, we all got them
@alexwindy32 ай бұрын
@@TwinklingMysticShot And also you could totally have multiple browsers up. Just use a good browser VPN we had like 30 tabs each in the queue about 400 tabs between our friend group
@zema94012 ай бұрын
4 people in my friend group all tried to get into the sale. We got exactly 0 tickets and thats because reportadly they were all bought by botters within minutes after the sales started. Thanks Riot.
@tahafury2 ай бұрын
I live in the UK, I can't even go to a finals in my own country
@BriceLijewski2 ай бұрын
Happened to me when they were in the US and finals was on my birthday ;-;
@SapphireMan082 ай бұрын
Man said "our" when talking about virgins like he don't got a whole wife and kid lmao
@toddpieper7322Ай бұрын
He does? Wow never wouldve thunk it
@BaiLangLong2 ай бұрын
Yep, woke up at the ass crack of dawn and was in the queue for hours, didn't get any tickets. I'm so annoyed. I can't travel outside the country so I was so excited for the worlds to be in my home country. Gotta wait until October now.
@RaccoonRecluse2 ай бұрын
Having matching identification if local or passport if not in order to use a ticket would cut down on this problem by 100%
@Risingashes2 ай бұрын
Riot could purchase every scalped ticket and chargeback after receiving and cancelling the codes since it is against their TOS. Companies should do more to punish scalping.
@NousagiBrat2 ай бұрын
These things are usually the fault of the ticket company
@arthurholtham36362 ай бұрын
yo quick thing about the queue, it wasnt based on when you joined the website, it was randomly assigned.
@TwinklingMysticShot2 ай бұрын
Yup that is important to know. You could be the first to join the waiting room but end up last in queue. Ypu had no control, just pure luck.
@Javano_2 ай бұрын
As someone who was actually there, most of the details presented in this video regarding the sales process range from technically incorrect to completely false. It doesn't sound like he had any first-hand experience with the sale and is more just aggregating info he found from Reddit/Twitter posts the next day. (Don't get me wrong, it was still horrible and frustrating. But almost all of the "issues" he talked about were not actually a real thing or someone just not understanding how the process was supposed to work)
@thelightbringer86102 ай бұрын
I don't understand how this us still happening. We made reselling tickets to anything for a higher price iligell in denmark years ago
@TwinklingMysticShot2 ай бұрын
Same in Norway. I don't understand why this law isn't in more countries. Not having that law is so toxic.
@thelightbringer86102 ай бұрын
@@TwinklingMysticShot it honestly seems weird that it's not banned, it's such an easy fix. Or at least it was for us because we already have our digital app to confirm our identity when buying tickets. So you will be reported instantly if you try to cheat with the ticket price
@schematic_2 ай бұрын
Great video~! This really needs to be bring up to the internet for those who doesn't know how stupid this system is. *Specially this scum of the Earth **_Scalpers & Resellers_** are selling at a load amount*
@VDekuMkII2 ай бұрын
Necrit : "Virgin is literally our title" me : yeah sure you have a fucking son !
@TwinklingMysticShot2 ай бұрын
The son was made in a lab /j
@chunkbungus2 ай бұрын
Imagine if they chose to void all currently purchased tickets just to screw over the scalpers.
@J3dotgg2 ай бұрын
Me and my s/o seriously lucked out with the queue on this and managed to grab 2 tickets... We still ended up paying higher than what riot advertised but my god those scalper prices are not reasonable...
@JoeyyyBoyyy2 ай бұрын
All of our friends from Sweden and Norway were going to visit London to see finals as soon as we got any notifications for O2 they were all sold out.
@bbrits10182 ай бұрын
I feel like this is more on ticket websites rather than riot themselves.
@burntbozo2 ай бұрын
In my desperate attempt to get tickets for me and my little brother I used every device in my house to join the queue. By the time the first one finished the queue ON ALL THREE OF THE SALE DAYS they were sold out, having spent 45 minutes waiting to finish the queue. SMH by the time I finished all the reselling tickets where £400+
@GeneralGrizzy2 ай бұрын
My manager’s manager let me have time to get those tickets 😭 FAILED
@reference24072 ай бұрын
i had to spend 700 pound on resale tickets because despite being eligible for both presales, they both sold out instantly. only reason i could spend that much was because i live near london, so i dont need the money for hotels for anything, but it still sucks. i hate giving these people money but i didnt want to risk the prices going up or never getting tickets, as travelling abroad for finals is out of the question for me :(
@jonathangatus74322 ай бұрын
league fans: worlds tickets so insane what 🤯🤯🤯 normal concert goers: first time?
@conneryechout71432 ай бұрын
necrit i hope your break was great, well deserved
@august_yuuka2 ай бұрын
The dynamic pricing is just a middle finger in the face of people that managed to get in 😂😂😂
@TheGaming_Dragon132 ай бұрын
Very interesting to have Worlds happen on my birthday this year. Thanks Riot
@LytannАй бұрын
Reminds me of my experience for the 2022 Championship in SF. Bots and resellers got everything and the cheapest resell ticket was $1000 on day 1.
@Settryan2 ай бұрын
This, was in the queue as well, crazy!
@MarbleBlu2 ай бұрын
Idek why they do it this way, imo make it so you have to attach a phone number or a form of ID to purchasing the ticket to prevent duplicate tickets from being sold, of course this would extend the time to produce a ticket sale but it would cut down on the resellers by 10 fold
@icecreamcake53812 ай бұрын
too bad ticket sellers don't care who buys them as long as they're getting sales.
@sphaxlp71982 ай бұрын
There is a third party provider for VIP seating, which are interestingly enough only 249 pounds, for those who are willing to pay that price. Its called hospitality centre.
@alireda222 ай бұрын
that into made me hyped thinking this was rift news
@nottomcruise64742 ай бұрын
Could make it like plane ticket and you buy for a specific person. There will be a fee if you change the name
@Aitchless_Cris2 ай бұрын
i tried and was totally oblivious to all of this. Obviously i didn't manage to get a ticket, but now that i know i'm completely speechless. Like wtf?!
@konrad26422 ай бұрын
I got into buying tickets after 8 min in the queue and was so happy to get my hands on them. Guess what. Buttons were mostly unresponsive due to no tickets being available and while I was spamming tapping on them when they “apparently” were available I was greeted with a screen that no tickets in that range we available anymore. I’ve read a comment on Reddit that someone got through after 5 mins and still couldn’t get a single ticket
@Vertnight2 ай бұрын
Just a casual experience of buying tickets for LCK as foreigner on their scammy site.
@GenosseHillebrecht2 ай бұрын
Immagine just tying tickets to full names, resellers killed for good (And if you cant make it they could even have customer support to change the name tied to it after confirming you are the person tied to the ticket, resellers cant get that many people to let them use their names and have them confirm their identity)
@legiderski20392 ай бұрын
8:00 I myself have 200tabs of manhwa on phone xD
@GameoftheYear-fx4mq2 ай бұрын
Do you also play league on your phone?
@legiderski20392 ай бұрын
@@GameoftheYear-fx4mq Nope
@VanoooK2 ай бұрын
Riot be like: "FInally! We invented a real-life queue simulator our players can experience at home!"
@shieldgenerator72 ай бұрын
irl queues xD
@TyphNUK28 күн бұрын
iirc the £335.09 is a premium seat, the O2 have a dozen of them in places hence it is that price. idk if I am right but, I remember seeing something like this when I looked at booking prices for twenty one pilots who are playing there next year.
@minglin2814Ай бұрын
3 hours in and absolutely nothing was left, probably the disabled section was sold out too
@LAST1GGK2 ай бұрын
Still happy I got to see semis in ATL 22. Life changing. Had an easy check out as well lololololoo
@MinaB-o2n2 ай бұрын
Good thing I can't be sure that I'll be able to go o any of the games in person so I didn't have to put up with the Q. The bad thing is I'll probably have suffer the same system next year
@deyliramirez3822 ай бұрын
50% because Arcane made everything Lol massively popular to people who don’t even like games. I’m happy if the opening show features a teaser for a song from Season 2
@GalacticSpike2 ай бұрын
This came as a surprise to me, where I live you're not allowed to resell tickets to any sort of event/show
@owafamosa76152 ай бұрын
imagen going to worlds and on every street is a talonhon ready for some stabbing. classic london meta
@xMissMushx2 ай бұрын
I live next to the O2 arena, I knew I HAD TO get tickets this year….. 0 chances.😭😭
@kimpark8532 ай бұрын
i bought them. My girl is a huge league fan and i wanted to take her this year, the price was rlly steep, but i only want the best for her so even got the vip ed ones. nice opertunity to visit london too. :)
@AVBRIZE2 ай бұрын
ed sheeran tickets in cyprus were priced between 130-180 eu
@BlueRox2 ай бұрын
Really hope I'll get a ticket for myself as 3rd of November is my birthday.. fingers crossed for the second wave
@gamingfornl2 ай бұрын
Necrit forgot the League of Legends live action studio confirmation
@stijnd52682 ай бұрын
Honestly just make it like max 1-2 tickets per bank account/ID for the first week to make it more difficult, and then open it up. Its not like the CCP doesnt have your personal data already anyways.
@FanOfMinatozakiSana2 ай бұрын
funny how they dont care who boughts ticket, they just want money.
@Blue-UmbreonАй бұрын
It depends on the country and the bank in Europe, my bank is one of the biggest in the Netherlands and they work with Mastercard so Yeah depends on the bank in Europe
@TylPhumin2 ай бұрын
Im so sad, i dont get the chance to go too far from where i live, so I was looking forward to a EU finals.. but naw, half the tickets are for resale :< i dont get why they don't just make named tickets. Also there should be a priority wave based on account age.
@ouroborus69512 ай бұрын
Nah I disagree with the account age just bc I play sine 2020 does not mean I should be put behind someone with an account from like 2013
@shieldgenerator72 ай бұрын
@@ouroborus6951 i think he means that someone with an account thats less than a year old should get low priority, because newer accounts are more likely to be bots
@shieldgenerator72 ай бұрын
scalpers are such a plague on this planet
@lordstraxus93522 ай бұрын
Personally i do feel the pain with not getting a Ticket that is wanted... But as long as the sale is automated... Greed will find its way... ID Verfied Accounts and people who manage the sale for Events like this is probably to much to ask for 🤷🏻♂️
@solaris-sieghart2 ай бұрын
They should just turn it into a lottery like most Japanese concerts
@luchiin172 ай бұрын
Me a 4 friends tried each on 3 devices to get tickets, one of us was able to enter exactly 15 minutes after they opened the shop and it was already sold out
@LviathanGG2 ай бұрын
Concert Goers: "First time?"
@catgaming3812 ай бұрын
Boss let's cover the lore of no rest for the wicked
@Thatonesmartdude2 ай бұрын
This is just shades of Ticketmaster with Taylor Swift tickets or
@yuuron97152 ай бұрын
They should give ticket-buying priority based on your rank in LoL. Fair system :)
@juvearturg2 ай бұрын
For such a huge events it should be a draw for a tickets like for football world cup.
@shaginus2 ай бұрын
They should adopt the lottery systems like Japan
@thedancingphantoms40042 ай бұрын
Love the vids, please make them in 1440p please
@normILL2 ай бұрын
Fwiw those resale prices are lower than the ones last year
@KiriroShaqua2 ай бұрын
Damn, even the tickets inflated
@louisrobitaille58102 ай бұрын
I don't think donating a kidney will be enough to win the battle 😂.
2 ай бұрын
So, basically, Riot put the balancing team in charge of ticket sales for Worlds😂
@ConZedtration2 ай бұрын
"The prices shown on the website.. were slightly higher" Yea it's now Canon, inflated prices by 398.88% is slightly higher!!! Not much has changed from the times only military was using computers to computers being in every household everyone!
@thenotoriousfoca13392 ай бұрын
Nominative ticket that can be resold only once at the original price by changing name of the ticket should be the way to go. Wouldn't be difficult. I am sad I cannot go watch the finals, it's kinda sad Riot does not do anything to address this
@TwinklingMysticShot2 ай бұрын
Heard someone got in after 4 minutes bit tickets was already sold out (except for the super expencive ones popping up now and then)
@arthurclement86562 ай бұрын
The first bad decision from Riot is having the events is places that small, semi should be in the stade de France for example 10k seats is not enough for such events (and i'm not talkibg about the play ins, this is criminal)
@michaeladavy53162 ай бұрын
The Eras Tour (Riot’s Version)
@wowJhil2 ай бұрын
I was thinking and talking to my GF about going to Worlds, since last year, but the closer I got to the date for the tickets the more I realized (sober up) to the reality of this. I knew that it would likely be near impossible to get the tickets, EVEN if I had Mastercard and not Visa like most people here. SO, I just gave up before trying. It's really sad how obviously, it could be fixed if they wanted to, but they have no reason to care about this. Before RIOT could earn pretty much from battle pass, skins and coming to LEC finals event from my part, but from now on I will not spend anything on ANY of these things because it's just all bad. I will gladly spend my money elsewhere!
@johanstenfelt12062 ай бұрын
Huh, interesting situation, I wonder what’s next?
@pongsapaksubpokatorn61382 ай бұрын
Riot: Surely 🤭
@TheVideoSpaz2 ай бұрын
Doesnt the EU have a ticket resell law about only reselling at face value? I guess league world wasn't a big enough event to activate this protection? or do I not understand the law.... I also wonder if thoes slitly higher tickets were actually early quick flip resells. I know some sites don't make it very clear what is resell tickets and what is original ticket. (as someone who just saw this but worse with the TS concerts)
@henrik1230982 ай бұрын
yes there is a law about this. but it is only in effect if the original ticket seller chooses to opt in. meaning riot did chose not to enforce this. most likely do to not many ticket sites if any at all. has to ability to use every countries unique identity system to lock tickets to a real person. you mostly see this law be enforced on national events and not so much international events
@TheVideoSpaz2 ай бұрын
@@henrik123098 oh that intresting that it is a opt in system. thanks for the info on that!
@Waxjan2 ай бұрын
I don't think this "dynamic prices" is real, I have managed to buy tickets, and they were listed in a regular price pool. Only few of them were left, tier 2 for 150£, so I bought them, and there were no "dynamic prices", even when only few tickets were left
@yaboiaxl12162 ай бұрын
Did you do anything special to get them or were you just lucky? heard people were getting through the queue in a couple of minutes and were left empty handed
@Waxjan2 ай бұрын
@@yaboiaxl1216 I have just opened page on the beggining and waited. One more friend did same, but he wasnt that lucky
@Waxjan2 ай бұрын
@@yaboiaxl1216 nope, just waited and got it, guess I was lucky
@Javano_2 ай бұрын
There definitely weren't any dynamic pricing -- everything sold at the prices Riot posted, minus the couple premium booth seats. SkinSpolights just saw the word in his inspect element, posted a screenshot, and everyone ran with it.
@adelinmares685716 күн бұрын
Scalpers won yet again. Even with a code from riot I wasn't able to get my hands on one ticket.
@DJ_Treu2 ай бұрын
Off topic but mentioning the server reminded me of this: WHY ARE BOTS SUCH A BIG ISSUE!? * *Sells original servers allowing people who know mild amounts of Hat-coding and development to generate hacks that look like normal spaghetti* * Kinda wild how them being charitable is part of what caused this issue with bots in most aspects of video game stuff - the web stuff idk enough about to know how theyre getting that done but damn bro these companies need to stop selling their servers.
@rokjbrok2 ай бұрын
I remembered LOL 2013.
@anseldernier2 ай бұрын
I'm quite bummed out this was my first attempt to go to worlds and I've been playing league since I was 8 I'm so sad that I probably wont be able to come
@yorandegandt23652 ай бұрын
I bought a ticket for 800 euro's... Imagine not spending 300 on a legal ticket when you had the chance lol
@HiiPANDA_2 ай бұрын
Oh no. . . Anyways I'll have some snacks and pizza and be in my comfy PJs when they stream it live from my room 😂
@Leonhermannsite2 ай бұрын
2hours in queue just for it to be sold out
@cardswarzreov21152 ай бұрын
They should have just make it like a ballot system
@e.g.jamestrumm71012 ай бұрын
the Queue really said "english or spanish"
@joepkippensnuiver29692 ай бұрын
I tried to get them, was there within the first hour, hard failed...
@GameoftheYear-fx4mq2 ай бұрын
Take this as a lesson for the nintendo switch 2, we don't wanna see any confused reactions, you've been warned.
@lordbradders65592 ай бұрын
as an 02 customer I never got anything about the tickets going on sale early as "priority" dunno if was just me who didn't get and heads up
@albinomitch2 ай бұрын
With the current UK government, half the arena will be in jail, we're league players after all.
@laplace39452 ай бұрын
Finally Necrit picking up on this shitstorm as well. I'm still in queue on ticketswap to get a ticket DX