Official Enforcer Appreciation Thread

Shaddz

I promised Momgamer that I'd start this, especially since now I have a lot of appreciation to give the [E]'s this year. Everyone who wants to give some greets and thanks to the [E]'s... This is the place to do so!

My personal thanks are to Joost (Fire) and Momgamer, as well as ItsATrap and LadyVenus. You guys helped me relax and chill when I was totally beaten to hell from the 15+ interviews I had to run to and from. Joost is always a pleasure to hang around (Especially when he's sharing his smexy Alienware lappy with me), but Momgamer really was awesome as well!

Also, big thanks to Derrick with PAX PR. He was awesome as well!

Matev

I'd like to extend a hearty thanks to the Enforcers. You all have to deal with the impossible job of pleasing thousands of gamers for the weekend and you always seem to do that superbly when I see you. I hope in that in the process you met some cool people and had some laughs of your own.

Heleor

I appreciate all enforcers. Except maybe Snickers. (<3 lol)

Big thumbs up to Virus and Cascade (er... dyaballikl) for managing to do the Pokemon League while juggling enforcer duties!

Elgaladwen

I really respect the enforcers for giving up their time at PAX so that we can have an amazing weekend, go to panels, hang out, etc. and not have to worry about running things or setting up or tearing down and all the other hard work that they do. You guys are awesome, thank you!!!

eMDee

All the enforcers rock, especially the ones who brought us pizza at the Final Omega Round line.

TranceAddictFoX

Ah, I was gonna start one of these threads, if it wasn't already up, but I'm glad to see it's already here.

Enforcers, I think I only used your awesome assistance once, maybe twice, this weekend but I want all of you to know that I appreciate what you do for all of us and I personally would like to thank you for helping make this weekend one of the best weekends of the year.

Again, Thanks!
Max "FoX" Thornburg

The Chop Suey

enforcers ty u were all amazing

Alazull

Every single Enforcer, even the one that made me pound a Long Island with him at the TWDT and the ones not from this country, is a real fucking American hero.

strebalicious

No specific positive encounter with the enforcers myself, but I do recognize that they are awesome sauce and something of this magnitude would not be possible without them.

mspencer

You attendees are who are awesome. You all take the role of considerate and appreciative guests, and that makes it easy and natural for us to play the role of gracious hosts. We can only rock because you guys all rock.

DJBreslin

I thought the Console, PC Freeplay, and BYOC rooms were expertly managed.

My wife and kids had their first PAX this year and I was very proud for them to see what I've been coming to for the last 7 years. My wife was particularly impressed when she saw the care taken in the Console room of wiping down controllers upon return.

And I know your presence made her feel safe for our kids. She looked at me weird after I told them that if they got separated or had any issues they could always go to a blue shirted Enforcer for help. She thought I was joking. But then she looked around and saw your omnipresent army. That instilled quite a bit of confidence.

Pinder

mspencer wrote: »

You attendees are who are awesome. You all take the role of considerate and appreciative guests, and that makes it easy and natural for us to play the role of gracious hosts. We can only rock because you guys all rock.

I can't really echo this enough. I was in the Benaroya afternoon team (if you were in the concert lines on either night, you probably saw me), and there were definitely hiccups due to the new venue. A huge thanks to all of the attendees for being considerate, kind, and attentive as we smoothed out the kinks that came along with having a seated venue with a definite and limited number of seats. Your continued patience as information changed was very much appreciated, and made my job a lot easier.

This was my first year enforcing, and it's because of you guys that I had such an amazing time and will definitely be back to work for you next year.

Thank you.

AhranGe

I just wanted to say I really appreciate the Enforcers and what they do! I just made an account on these forums to say thanks. I really enjoyed the show, especially the enforcer who ran up the escalators to BYOC towards the end who I yelled "man on a mission!"

stuffedskullcat

Thanks to all of the Mighty Enforcers for their time and assistance, being a PAX newb I got some great directional assistance, and to the Enforcer that helped me hide that body: thanks, man. Thanks.

Blackie62

Dude yeah, this was my first year and I really needed the Enforcers help to find anything. Managed to get my PAX XP done on day 1 thanks to them. So thanks.

Tube

I was even more impressed with the enforcers than I usually am this year. I have nothing but good things to say, great job guys.

Frito

I have yet to meet an enforcer I didn't immediately appreciate. These guys put up with our nerdy asses every year and I haven't seen one come close to losing their cool.

GermanCityGirl

+1 to the Enforcer love. Every year they tirelessly help PAX novices find their way around and helping us veterans who might require assistance too. A handful of names spring immediately to my mind but they ALL deserve a hearty round of thanks. You rock.

Infidel

Next year I intend to spend extra cash (will have a real job finally) to get way more buttons made so that I can give them away to all the enforcers that are collecting them without having buttons of their own. I would have loved to give them out more except I figure it's cheating out the buttoneers that are still missing mine at the end because I always run out pretty quickly at the final exchange. Going to change all of that.

Thanks for PAX!

MelesMeles

All the ones I met were absolute heroes. If any of them are in London, I will buy them many drinks and bacons

Special shoutouts:

The kilted giant who was working the line at the PA Make A Strip panel on saturday morning (the one who got his hug on stage). He threatened to throw me over the balcony because of my t-shirt

The awesome girl with the absolutely kick-ass hair on the 4th floor who was running the Infected game. She was super friendly and just generally cool.

Everyone who worked the line on Friday morning in the main queue room. It went super smoothly from my point of view; you guys did a really awesome job.

Twinkie, for her Jagermeister-related behaviour on the TWDT

The travelling salesman psuedo-cosplaying Enforcer who was telling people about the classic console freeplay area. you for your epic fast thinking line when the fire alarm went...pulls out pocket watch, "Oh my goodness, that's my train" You sir, are a true god among men.

emarecksaykay

I didn't really have any interactions with Enforcers this year, come to think of it, but I certainly know from previous PAXii that they're an impressive force indeed. For me this Prime they were simply hard working in the background to make everything run smooth. Perhaps the fact I didn't really notice them this time around is simply proof of how great they've done their jobs. Anyway, thanks Enforcers!

rufo

I thought the addition of the line entertainment Enforcers this year was pretty awesome. And not just because I won an A30 headset from one. I assume they were inspired by the Get In Line games from Prime/East, and it definitely helped make the wait a bit easier.

But - just in general, all of the Enforcers were awesome this year, so much so that I think I've been inspired to apply to be one for East...

MobiusDoppelganger

Props to all the Enforcers who ran the Steel Battalion Metacampaign 2010, you guys were there the whole weekend with little to no interruption. Special props to Maze for leading the PRF, and Mara for setting up the whole thing.

ElmoFuntz

I talked to many an enforcer (I was a lost PAX newbie) and was honestly surprised at how nice every single one of them were all the way up to the end of the show. I was expecting a bunch of people with power trips but not a chance they were all awesome helpful people! You guys truly rocked and helped make this show awesome and fun!

krej

Here's my shout out to all the enforcers staffing my favorite area - the games library rooms! Thanks all for pulling such long shifts to enable my addiction and even recommend to me new drugs to try!

eye-shuh

Big thank you to the BYOC enforcers! I love watching you guys shut people down who try and sneak into BYOC without orange passes to talk to their friends or mill around. Plus whenever someone desperately needed to talk to me for button trading stuff someone was always nice enough to escort them in and out or come find me.

You guys rock! Thank you for protecting my lovely macbook! XD

Cryana

Thanks to the Table Top enforcers! You guys really made my day. Full of smiles and very willing to help. "Where's Pandemic, omg omg, is that the last copy?!"

Sarahstrasza

I'd like to extend e-hugs and my appreciation to those that took pictures of my grunt tattoo, and/or knew what it was. On a day to day basis I get stopped and people have asked me to date if it was Stitch, a transformer or from metroid. It's been called an alien which is, pretty much what it is so.. I let that one slide.

and the random guys wearing cologne.. thank you. and the super omega friendly crowd (which essentially would be everyone) Thank yooooooou.

mspencer

Frito wrote: »

I have yet to meet an enforcer I didn't immediately appreciate. These guys put up with our nerdy asses every year and I haven't seen one come close to losing their cool.

Well, our asses are just as nerdy as yours are. I think that explains a lot of why the attendee/enforcer thing works as well as it does.

So nerdy attendees aren't tolerated. You are celebrated and loved.

Edit: wait, that isn't what you were saying. Sorry, disregard.

Shaddz

Sarahstrasza wrote: »

and the random guys wearing cologne.. thank you.

No problem! =D

(lm so gonna catch hell for that hahahaha)

track29

The Bruce says he wouldn't even DO this without them. All tied for number one in helping him:
-Jedi
-Jabber
-Big Red
-Kemper
-Indigo
-Father Fletch
-Fire
-Spyder and ALL the Expo team (especially Mme
-Johnny C
-and, of course, PRD

I am quite sure I've left some out - please forgive.

Big snaps to all of you. Will see you tonite.

Jenny_Spaghetti

A big shout out to the guy who helped me carry my stuff up from the expo hall to byoc on Saturday morning. I was so grumpy and bruised from trying to navigate my gimpy ass around the expo hall that I totally missed your name but you, good sir, ROCK.

Of course, all the rest of the enforcers rock too, but that's the one that really stood out in my mind.

Fellina

Special thanks to the enforcers that ran Rockband outside the Juicy cafe. Didn't play myself, but that one enforcer who kept leading the crowd in singing and clapping along made watching so much fun.

danimal cannon

enforcers get the maddest of props from me! I seriously have nothing but the best things to say about you guys.

Tukimoshi

Special thanks to the enforcers for all your work. Felt bad for you guys when everyone started waving their cell phones and/or game systems at the concert, and some people pulled out their lighters.

Also: Mad props to Khoo for overseeing everything. Was nice saying hi to him in the line-up for the concert. He's pretty cool.

GeekyPrincess

The Sat. night concert enforcers were awesome. Haven't had that much fun standing in line for hours since I was at Disney World! Kept my "new name" tape on my badge.

Also had fun with the line entertainers during the two panels I went to at Pegasus.

niq24601

Lots of thanks to Deadmetal, bloodelf, and the rest of the crew who manned the Rock Band free play stage. Having RB3 was an added bonus! bloodelf I know you sort of got boxed out of playing w/ us late on Sunday after your shift ended. I promise next year that NBAM will join you to play the song of your choosing .

I also think the carnival barker who was pimping CCFP was pretty awesome. I wanted to have a cracker-jack good time playing golden-eye but never found time.

b0wser

As Mochi and I were clearing the last few people in the Handheld Sumo area, a group of Exhibitors stopped us for a moment to thank us, for the group as a whole. Among the few things she said, the woman speaking commented that:

"I've worked at a lot of cons, doing these shows. I talk to a lot of people, and all the developers I know want to come to PAX... it's in a league of it's own. The Enforcers make this con what it is, and for this I sincerely thank you."

Jaiden

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE STOP REQUESTING FREEB-- wait, PAX is over. I'm safe.

I know this is an Enforcer appreciation thread, but I'm going to thank everyone else all at once, so there. To everyone that was at the Rock Band stage, thank you for stopping by and enjoying both the musical and the tone-deaf amongst us. To everyone that played Bad Romance, I hope you understand, someday, the trauma that you've inflicted upon me.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again next year, bright and early.

parabola

Most of the enforcers I dealt with were good. Had maybe one or two issues but everything was mostly good.

BYOC enforcers are the best.

Voltron

MelesMeles wrote: »

The kilted giant who was working the line at the PA Make A Strip panel on saturday morning (the one who got his hug on stage). He threatened to throw me over the balcony because of my t-shirt

Indeed, I do remember you sir. Well, I'm glad I made myself memorable....if even for a life-threatening moment!