The Burning Man main sale has come and gone, and, as every year since 2012, it sold out completely. Nevertheless, it seems to have been an easy year for getting tickets to Burning Man compared to the last decade. All of the theme camps we know are reporting that their campers scored plenty of tickets in the main sale.
Your intrepid reported analyzed every single comment in the official Reddit Main Sale Ticket Threads for 2023 and 2024 to see how it went for people on that popular forum:
| 2023 | 2024 | |
| Number of comments | 1100 | 1300 |
| Number of successful tickets purchased as % of comments | 64 5.8% | 206 15.8% |
| Number of failures to buy tickets as % of comments | 74 6.7% | 22 1.7% |
Anecdotally, there have not been as many bugs and glitches in the last few years, since the org switched ticketing platforms. The biggest “bug” is that people who try to click at exactly 12:00pm are often told they’re early even when they aren’t, probably a caching issue.
One thing we have to add: when the main sale has finally sold out, everyone who has been patiently waiting in line for hours is taken to a message that says “Burning Man’s … Main Sale is done. Keep the fire burning!” with a link to a donation page. I don’t know if this raises much money, but it really does make a terrible impression and is not winning the org any friends. This might be the one time not to beg for donations.
2 replies on “Yes, it was much easier to get tickets this year”
Actually it was Dall E, not Midjourney. You’d have a hard time getting an image like that out of MJ. But yes, technology was involved.
Ah, sorry for the mistake! Corrected! We love the fact that the time on both clocks is different.