It's become a bit of a joke how quickly tickets for Blizzard's annual convention sell out. Last year, the 27,000 passes for BlizzCon were gobbled up in mere minutes. No doubt, parent company Activision was hoping to mirror that success with Call of Duty XP. Check that: given the record-setting, multi-billion-dollar sales of the CoD franchise, Activision was likely expecting it. But now, less than two days before Call of Duty XP is set to open its doors in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. on Friday, tickets are still readily available.
When Activision announced Call of Duty XP at the end of June, it said it would welcome "more than 6,000" fans to the event, with two-day passes selling for $150 (all proceeds going to its Call of Duty Endowment). Those passes went on sale on July 19.
While the CoD XP website lists travel packages for the event as sold out, general admission passes were still available for purchase on the site as of noon PST. And a call to the Call of Duty XP hotline confirmed that tickets are, in fact, still on sale.
We're still trying to find out exactly how many tickets have sold and if Activision is sticking with its ambiguous "more than 6,000" cap. We've contacted multiple sources at the publisher but have yet to hear back. We'll update this post as soon as we do.
Spy Guy says: Couple factors that could be playing into this: 1) It's an 18-and-over only event (parent/guardian won't get kids in), so a huge percentage of the CoD fanbase isn't eligible to attend, and 2) the brand is so huge, people might have assumed tickets sold out immediately. Regardless, it's amazing to think tix are still available. And not selling out -- hell, not being able to sell roughly 6,000 tix -- would be a huge PR blow for Activision and the CoD community as it prepares to launch Modern Warfare 3 and go head-to-head with Battlefield 3. 
