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It was announced earlier today that when SDCC tickets go on sale in the next couple months that there will no longer be 4day badges. Hopeful attendees will need to buy individual day passes. As you can imagine there has been massive uproar over this announcement. Which I understand…to a point. The fact is as of last year, you no longer receive a discount for going every day, and so if last year you purchased a 4 day badge, you really purchased 4 single badges.

“The decision to move from a 4-Day badge option to single day badge options was to give each attendee more flexibility when purchasing. Since we no longer offer a discount for purchasing all four days, the 4-Day option was repetitive and often lead to people purchasing a 4-Day badge despite not needing to attend every day. We hope this change will allow attendees to purchase only the days they truly need and maximize the number of people who can get a badge to attend Comic-Con.”

If you do want to attend all 4 days including preview night all you have to do is check the preview night box and it automatically checks every day for you (or if you don’t want to go, then just uncheck preview night and the 4 single days will still remained checked for you). You will not have to go through various hoops to register for each single day for every person you are registering for.

In Update #2, which was posted on the Toucan (the official blog of CCI) in December, we are given a short list of changes that have been made to help expedite the badge purchasing process. Features like:

• A shopping cart!

• Single session purchasing!

• Landing page validation!

• Extensive load-testing!

To see the explanation of each feature click the link below for Update #2

It’s no secret that the last several years of SDCC has been frustrating to the loyal fans who have been going for many many years, it is impossible to please everyone. There simply just is not 1 simple solution to fix the problems the popularity of his show creates. So have patience and let’s see how this new plan works out. If it just simply flops, then you can start yelling and screaming again.

If you would like more information, below are the links to the SDCC main information page, as well as the 4 updates on the Toucan blog page.

SDCC Pre-Registration Information

Toucan Blog SDCC Registration Update #1

Toucan Blog SDCC Registration Update #2

Toucan Blog SDCC Registration Update #3

Toucan Blog SDCC Registration Update #4