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Agreed. I have it set so all their tweets are texted to me and I check the forums every 30 minutes. It was a mad rush last year.
There is a huge leap between badges selling out in a day to badges selling out in minutes.
The biggest key last year: most people also knew exactly when they would go on sale, due to a computer glitch in initial sales.
And comic-con has many less tickets on day of sale than PAX, because they sell next years tickets at that years con.
I fully expect 4 day passes to sell out within the day, but within minutes? With a surprise launch and a blizzcon competitor? That's hard to believe.
While I don't expect it to be immediate, I still consider it prudent (if maybe bordering on crazy obsessed?) to be prepared. I have my phone set to almost literally blow up if/when @Official_PAX tweets. That most recent "registration is open for golf" nearly sent me into a panic. I'm also going to be stowing away my credit card info JUST IN CASE I'm not in front of my computer when it hits (I do not carry my wallet with me everywhere).
Crazy? Crazy like a fox!
While it probably will get to a comiccon level one day I'd say it's awhile off especially if cons like Dragon con, Blizzcon, and the other summer/fall ones stick around.
I'd personally go with their estimate last year of a week for 4days and a month for the rest.
There is no cost information available at this time. Also I do not believe you will be able to purchase that many badges. You should email registration@paxsite.com and/or pax_questions@paxsite.com for group registration info (if there is any).
And as far as I know, there is a limit on how many badges each person can buy. Is it 5? I think it's 5.
I believe it is five per type of badge, so you could buy 25 (5 four days & 5 each of the single days).
Haha! Give him a break, it is Monday.
If previous years were an indicator, that would be a no.
That is how scalpers are trying to circumvent the system so no, you would not be able to do that.
If they see the same E-mail address, Credit card, or address is used for multiple orders they will cancel all of them and you will have no badges.
You need to have multiple people ready to pounce once the tickets go up.
Citation? Last year I know of folks who were able to process separate orders.
If you are legit, don't worry about it too much, but I would definitely email registration@paxsite.com ahead of passes going live to talk it out first.
You can never get rid of scalpers completely but I think last years measures helped considerably. I hope they got the swag bag situation sorted out. Was East done differently? I suggest putting a spot on the badge to hole punch once you get a bag to stop people from getting more than one. I don't think I've ever seen a full bag 'o' swag by the last day if they still have them at all.
East just did pre-made bags IIRC. The line didn't get held up like it did at Prime.
Bags at East were done the same way as normal, so some of the special variety items were swiped from multiple bags by people. Not sure if there's an efficient way of doing the one bag per person per 4-day/set of individual day passes without some massive boost to manpower and tech manning the swag bag area each day.
In the end it's just not worth it, they have thousands upon thousands of them, so if someone wants that extra magic deck, then they can break Wheaton's law and get it.
Otherwise it would be a many hours long line to get a swag bag, which would suck a lot.
Which did suck a lot (Prime 2012, never forget).
It did indeed suck. And while you can always come up with a reason not to do something, I was only offering up a suggestion to make things better for the ones that'll just go Sunday or Monday. If they do it this year like years past, the vast majority of people get their bags when they get in the que room. Most of the 4 day holders will get their bag day one. The stragglers could easily be handled by a couple or few people several hours after opening. I'm stickin' to my idea
PA is based in Seattle and I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. And tradition? Testing seattle's critcal mass point? Oh and there's a thousand game studios here, big and small.
And yes, it was asked at East if they would be extending East to four days like Prime (no plans at this time). Mike and Jerry specifically stated that they extended it because it's outgrown the Seattle convention centre and they wanted to enable more people to be able to enjoy the event, unlike the one for East which is a very large building.
Same. I drive down from Vancouver (2.5hr car trip) and if it was any farther away the convention would become too expensive for me to attend.
Attended: PAX Prime 2010/'11/'12/'13/'14
But it's weird, they have never ever had swag bag problems at East.
Seattle's also one of the most pedestrian-friendly cities I've ever seen. Navigating the streets feels so beautifully natural.
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Seattle is amazing and the reason we went to Prime this year instead of Boston. Cause of the time difference we would get up with the sunrise and go down to pikes market just as everything was starting to open. You will love it.
There is already another gaming/Internet convention in Austin: RTX run by Rooster Teeth, not to mention SXSW for media.
Besides, with PAX Austrailia I doubt there is time in the calendar year for another.
Three day passes are almost automatically out just because there's a weird overlap of the middle days that makes for a situation with empty Friday and Monday and instant sold out Saturday and Sunday.
Now that I've speculated I have a question for people who know how to use twitter better than I do. Several people have set up alerts on their phones for tweets from OfficialPAX. (I have an android phone) How do I do that?