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Is there available a breakdown showing how many people bought each quantity of passes?
i.e. something like "5000 people bought one 3-day pass, 7000 bought two 3-day passes, 2500 bought five 3-day passes, etc."
If so, is this data also available for past years? Not having a pass this year I'd at least like to spend time staring at data.
This information is never released to the public.
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Which I think means that, from the convention center, your closest options will be either to go to IGA or Whole Foods. The next closest I can think of is QFC up at Broadway and Pike.
If you have access to a car and a Costco card, there is a Costco on 4th ave south of the stadiums that should be selling liquor. If they are anything like the Costco in California the variety is decent and the prices can't be beat. I get 1.75L bottles of Jack for $17-$20. Not that I am trying to encourage large amounts of alcohol consumption!
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"We know that the moment we slip, it will be taken away... and so it is of the utmost importance to be worthy of it constantly."
PAX will always be held on the best weekend for PAX. Sometimes that will be a bad weekend for you; I'm sorry.
I know, I voted for it before I moved. I just happened to move to a place where I could already buy it at Costco. I'm just not sure what kind of set-up they'll do up there, it seems to vary from Costco to Costco.
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Yes - for some of the games, you have to demo it to get swag. Why? Because the vendors are there to sell you their games, not necessarily to give out free stuff to the hungry masses. The swag is a bonus.
Secrets - I guess just get in line for what you want early. Sometimes that means getting to the expo hall at 7 AM and going straight to your booth. Play the games. Participate in the contests. That's really what it is about.
Every exhibitor handles swag in their own way. There is no Unified Swag Theory for PAX.
You could consider getting a Skype number. They're only around $8 USD every 3 months.
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A SIM card is a little card in GSM phones that tells your phone "This is your phone number, you're on this carrier". For coming stateside, you can pick up pre-paid SIM from AT+T or T-Mobile (and probably some other smaller carriers that uses those two's towers anyway) that'll give you a X dollars worth of minutes/texts and a US phone number. Once you're done with it, just toss it and put your old SIM back in.
There's an International Travel thread somewhere around here that'll help you out further.
There are various texing apps as well for most of the major phones. You get a number (or something) and all the texts get routed through the internet. I've got friends who use their Ipods for texting and switched back to prepaid dumb phones to save money. Of course given the data connection at PAX...
You may be best off just either swapping SIMs (if possible) or picking up a cheap prepaid phone.
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Seriously, it's like a barrage from a battery of Swag Cannons.
And 99% of it is XXS or XXXL T-shirts.
I saw quite a few last year and REALLY wanted to report them but wasn't sure...
I believe they're legally allowed to be there.
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That's kinda the flipside of it. On Saturday the Irrational booth was so short on T-shirts that they made you pass a quiz to get one (my wife and I missed by 1 different question each. Next year we'll cheat.) Posters though weren't a problem.
I think it's going to boil down to "is it popular." Popular stuff (especially if it has a higher cost to produce) will go before Sunday. Unpopular stuff not so much. Then Swag cannons! It seems like Codes (especially for Xbox stuff) go really fast.
I remember last year we hit up HaloFest first, and they were giving out the MegaBlocks sets (which cost about $10 a piece retail) to the first 5000 people to go through the exit (strange system in my mind, I think they just weren't ready for the "first 5000 through the door" because they were still packing them when we left) I almost missed out because I was heading out the one side exit (there were 2 exits) there rather than the main exit past the gift shop. Luckily a friend grabbed me and went "SWAG!" Those were gone in just hours IIRC.
Granted a giant area with 2 exits was not the norm
Ahh thanks for the tip. I had heard about the pre paid sims but didn't really grasp the concept. I knew someone would know.
This is correct. Scalping is legal in Seattle everywhere except outside the two sports stadiums.
So yes, scalpers have every right to sell tickets outside the convention center.
The real problem is the people selling fake badges, those are the people you should be focusing all your anger at.
Not only are they screwing over people, but because plenty of fakes get through with out being caught, it creates a potentially unsafe condition in the convention center by allowing too many people in.
Two years ago they had a RB3 preview night at Jillian's, but nothing last year. You should ask them, but I kind of doubt they'd be doing something (could be wrong...it's been known to happen once).
John
And to add on, please apply to be an Enforcer if you want to be an Enforcer, not just because you missed out on passes. You'll definitely see less of PAX, as odds are there will be something that happens that you want to see that will be during your shift, but it is certainly an enjoyable experience.
Also, feel free to read through this thread.
Couldn't some data be released without jeopardizing all the secret data? i.e. just release a fact like "2500 people bought more than five 3-day passes each"*
(* not a fact, just an example)
No clue. What I know is that it isn't released.
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To be fair the data they did release (1.74 tickets/transaction no discussion if that only applied to 3 day passes or all passes) was recieved poorly (called irrelevant, misleading, what have you.) So I'm not sure releasing more data is at all beneficial to them so they're not likely to do it. One of the Official PAX tweets mentioned the number "20,000" if that helps you (but I think that was just a ballpark number of tickets to make a point.)
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There's no perfect comprehensive list at the moment. Keep an eye on these forums, and the wiki, there will be plenty of information to consume about community events at Prime
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Maybe @jaberwockynmt can help you figure out if they need more enforcers this year?