I agree. Maybe they should limit it to a single item, e.g., "the latest nexus dev phone" or "$300 of AppEngine credits."
Maybe then, the tickets wouldn't sell out within the first 45 mins (a good thing for developers who really want to go learn and network).
The 45 minute sell out implies that people had 45 minutes to book. However, as we know, the site was slammed immediately and it took 45 minutes for Google to fall over itself trying to process. It was effectively sold out immediately.
Given the number of tickets available (~4K I think) and the something like 1k+ hits/sec they had, the tickets would have been gone in a few seconds if the site had held up, not in minutes or hours.
Really? I'd love a new pair of glasses.
I have seen people register just for free stuff and not pay attention to conference (Considering tickets get sold out in 2 minutes, if you really want to go for conference sake, its a bummer).