OK
Somehow I think they'd need more staff to organize these things... (no kidding)
Because now we have all sorts of theories. But Yoshiki's injury may have something to do with this. I would much prefer him heal himself into perfection to him wreck his body for a handful of crowd. Imagine some serious Yoshiki fan boy/girl who has learned nothing of his recovery after their press conference ages ago. I think people like that exist. Unless I'm mistaken, we've heard nothing about his physique since then, and that info might help us a lot with our anxieties.
So either it's very, very subtle tactics or just plain miserable managering. And even if it were the former, I think few can see it that way.
One theory I've had was Yoshiki's fear of the venue
not selling out. I think stuff like that is extremely important to him. So, he may have figured that if he only put the tickets on sale 12 days, roughly 288 hours, before the start, everyone will be fighting over them like crazy. This the cynic's view into things...
However, this plan doesn't sound realistic at all.
I still have faith X are "honest", but they're seriously damaging their world takeover project behaving like this. The fans just need more information. For example, an average fan who's not 24/7 following them and who mainly reads their official MySpace site every once in a while
still doesn't have a clue when the ticket sale will start. It happened to me as you saw!