Comments on: Pottermore: Please Stop Selling Beta Accounts On eBay

By: Jenessa

Jenessa — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:00:33 +0000

To anyone that may get on this. I’m not saying that selling them is right, I think it is terribly wrong. However, 1 million people were allowed in, and how many students does it say are on there? Well it says 687,890. That means that people went through the trouble to get an early access account, and could care less to actually use it, or even just get sorted! Blame them as well.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:20:49 +0000

USAmom, it’s not a “scarcity game”. They need to allow access like this in phases because opening it up to everyone would either heavily overload or (more likely) completely crash their servers. This way they can get feedback/fix bugs/scale the servers as needed.

By: melody

melody — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:30:56 +0000

Well it’s about time USA had a time zone inconvenience. I always have to wake up REALLY EARLY or miss out because the event was in school hours.

Finally something was convenient, this showed up at 8PM for me :D

By: Ally

Ally — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 03:15:50 +0000

Tonight it started at 5:30 PM Mountain time. I don’t see why you’re complaining. If they were true fans, they would have stayed awake or set an alarm to wake up and get an account on the other days. Seriously, the registration lasted for three hours every day for a WEEK.

By: Caturdayz

Caturdayz — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:31:47 +0000

Brody, I’m not exactly sure if that is money well spent… I have had a chance to register an account every day for the past 6 days, if you’re a fan of the Pottermore facebook page, or follow a Pottermore twitter, your screen lights up once the clue hits.

By: Brody

Brody — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:25:25 +0000

I bought one on EBAY for 50 dollars! Haha, so happy I did :)

By: Morgan

Morgan — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:54:53 +0000

the stereotypical American??? Actually, no. We do not think any such thing. I live in America too. Even though “the author is from England and the books are set in England,” it is now a series that is adored WORLDWIDE and people all over the world should have an opportunity to get early access. Apparently JK Rowling and the partners for Pottermore feel the same way, seeing as how they have continued to change the time of each clue to make it more convenient for other places.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:07:04 +0000

Ah, the stereotypical American: Thinks the world should revolve around them. Listen up, ‘USAmom’. The author is from England. The books are set in England. It has absolutely nothing to do with your country whatsoever. The fact that you think she should set up the website to have it revolve around American timezones proves how self absorbed you are. You can either stay up or wait until October. Your pick.

By: Joxii

Joxii — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:17:32 +0000

It’s really not very hard at all to get an account and yes, I am an American. If it means staying up a few extra hours, so what? It’s well worth it! This is, after all, an early chance to get into the site. As such, I don’t think they should make it too easy to obtain. I’m guessing you’re concerned about your kid not getting an account. If it’s that important to you, you should either let your kid stay up or make them an account yourself! I’ve been staying up very, very late since I was about six or seven, so being younger doesn’t put you at a disadvantage. Or, alternatively, you can just wait patiently until October when everyone will be let in. You have no reason to complain.

By: Marce

Marce — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:10:40 +0000

I woke up at 3 AM yesterday to get mine, if you want it, you gotta make the effort, it´s not fair that people try to make money out of a gift, that´s just wrong.