We Can Put a Man On Pandora, But We Can't Build a Website
Tickets went on sale today for this Friday's Avatar sneak preview -- did you get yours? That'd be an impressive feat, as Fox's Avatar website (through which the ticketing is being done) is a slow, buggy monstrosity given to timeouts, broken programming, and pages that don't load. It's not as though it's flooded with ticket requests, as near as I can tell; after thirty minutes of timeouts and reloading, I finally reached a page where I could reserve tickets for an AMC theater in LA and it still had hundreds of seats available. Sadly, my order wasn't successful until I'd spent 500-odd times attempting to enact it. Maybe we could put one o' them CG supercomputers to use here? [Avatar]
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That turkey smell just keeps getting stronger with every report.
All I get when I click on it is this jumble of code, in both Chrome and Firefox...
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /content/avatarmovie.com/html/ticketing/index.php:20 Stack trace: #0 /content/avatarmovie.com/html/ticketing/index.php(20): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('') #1 {main} thrown in /content/avatarmovie.com/html/ticketing/index.php on line 20
Any help? Anyone?
Glad I didn't cancel my dentist appointment for this disappointment. Sure, I'll miss the fun on Friday, but...no cavities!
Finally got it to work. Only two hundred refreshes later.
Got my confirmation email an hour after I got on the website. Then two hours later I got eighteen more of the same email confirming it.
Seriously Fox!!!
Nineteen emails confirming the same exact thing. Really great cutting those thousand people from your digital division a couple months ago.
I've had those myspace black curtain (or whatever they're called) advance screenings go way easier than this and that's the same exact company.