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PAX Prime Badges 4 Days & 1 Day Passes Will be Sold
Hey! Lets have a thread for all of our badge speculation needs!!
What's it going to be? 4 day passes? Single day passes only? How fast will they sell out??
We don't know!
It's unknown when Penny Arcade will annouce this, however it's likely to happen soonish.
Edit:
Now you guys can talk about when they will go on sale and how fast you think they will sell out.
For sellout history, see Handy Google Doc by Skelevader
What's it going to be? 4 day passes? Single day passes only? How fast will they sell out??
We don't know!
It's unknown when Penny Arcade will annouce this, however it's likely to happen soonish.
Edit:
Robert Khoo wrote: »There will be 4 day passes and 1 day passes.
Now you guys can talk about when they will go on sale and how fast you think they will sell out.
For sellout history, see Handy Google Doc by Skelevader
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On March 21st, Pax tweeted that badges would be available in a month or so.
Of course everything is subject to change, so watch all the regular channels like a hawk.
Oh man... waiting another month is gonna kill me!!! *stalk stalk stalk*
Ticket sales do not happen on a schedule. They happen when the site is ready to go.
Same. I thought for a moment about RTing them to tell them that... >.>
Thank you!
I would expect that to stay the same.
In the past did tickets go on immediate sale on work days or weekends? I'm also curious if I can use my iPhone or iPad to do the registration process and buy tickets.
For the last three they were on work days. Last Prime went live at around 5PM EST. I remember cause I was driving home when it happened.
No one knows yet.
1 Day Passes (as usual)
2 Day Passes (Fri-Sat, Sun-Mon)
3 Day Passes (Fri-Sun, Sat-Mon)
4 Day Passes
Too early to say, but I seem to remember in a thread shortly after last Prime (I think the suggestions thread, but I'm not sure) that someone running the info booth was told to tell people that it would be all single day passes next year; I'd take that with a massive grain of salt though, as 7 months is a long time for things to change.
Hmmm that may have been for round two. As I recall their first attempt to put tix on sale was around 10am PST (1pm Eastern). Of course at that point the site asploded under the load, heads rolled and about a week later they put up a new tix site. I managed to get tickets the first time through
They have always been released on workdays & usually in the morning (West Coast time). The odd exception was the re-release of Prime 2012 in the afternoon because of the meltdown the first time.
Here is my spreadsheet that shows when year year went on sale & sold out. I have also added the approximate time they went on sale based on Twitter (they always put the registration site up awhile before they tweet so the exact time is not known to the public).
Google Doc Spreadsheet
As for the time I'd say this upcoming week or next on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. That would give them a week to clean up east and two to prepare the system.
Thanks Khoo!
And with this revelation I totally say passes are definitely this week or next
Well, panel submissions for AUS end on the 12th, according to the pax Twitter. I feel like they'll go over those before they release Prime passes.
I wouldn't count on anything being automated. Pretty sure they pull the trigger manually on most things.
Hopefully it won't be so crazy this year? It was a perfect storm last year and it sold out fast.
I can guarantee you that this year will be crazy. Expect passes to sell out just as fast, or faster this year.
Prime has just gotten more popular each year, and this will be no exception. Yes, I am sure LOL & no BlizzCon has some influence, but if you look at the history of sellout dates, it was only a matter of time before we get to the instant sell out like Comicon due to Prime not being able to grow with the interest anymore.
I for one am camping Twitter, as well as these forums (The registration link was posted here an hour before it was tweeted last year if I remember correctly). I am fully aware that I may not be fast enough to get tickets this year, I just hope I am lucky.