2013 Registration is SOLD OUT - sellout FAQ in the OP

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  • NgocDTNgocDT Registered User regular
    whypick1 wrote: »
    The past couple of PAXes have streamed one or two theaters via TwitchTV. No ticket needed even.

    Oh awesome. I wish I had known about this the last two years. :P Must have missed it somehow.

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  • sanovahsanovah Nerd of the West San Diego, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2013
    The difference I believe between Blizzcon and PAX is obviously the location, but also the internet reliability and strain of all of us on it. Not knowing how big it if is and based on queue system and how fast their two batches went I'd say PAX is twice as big as blizzcon.

    It's an awesome idea, but every year we're told the internet sucks at best and have heard before that enforcers and Twitter accounts can't send out messages. At east I think Khoo said they were on their own private network for the omegathon and still had to be reset like 3 times the final round and we never saw who won.

    It's an amazing idea and hopefully something they can dwork on and do the future on a bigger scale than the free stuff now. No guarantees it out would limit registration, but if they added it to a regular ticket for free or maybe like $5 it would probably help with lines in the bigger panels and let more people see them. I know on say Sunday at 3pm I'd rather chill in my hotel room watching super big panel X instead of waiting in line for two hours to see it.

    They really should look into something like your suggestion

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  • Chakaal StarrChakaal Starr Registered User regular
    @zerz It is a tough statistic to nail proof on as to who can actually access the internet enough to float around social media for days to catch a random announcement on twitter/pax site then watch a queue for 3 hours when they are supposed to be working(without fear of being caught and disciplined). I always thought it was called 'work' for a reason, but I suppose it is entirely possible that bosses hire their employees to watch paxsite and twitter for weeks on end so that they can organize a vacation months down the line. ;)

    I was going mostly on the general information that a higher percentage of people work a work week of Monday to Friday than any other pattern. (Does that really need to be proved?) The term business days doesn't refer to Saturday and Sunday. As far as students, whether high school or university level, most of the schooling system also follows business days/school days.

    I still agree with SJSharks statement
    "It's nice to know that PAX is looking out for the people who have jobs where you aren't near a computer all day... " but whatever, its fine, it benefits me to have those people that can't go on the internet excluded anyway.


    @Allazul I finally read your statement "I kind of figured you didn't really get the idea of the community when you said something about the exhibitors and what they would prefer. Let me be the first to say, FUCK the exhibitors. They are not what PAX is about, it is not about the expo hall. That is a solid part of it, but even should they all decide to stop coming I would still go. PAX is about the community, and the community would not exist to the same extent in the scenario you envision. "

    If PAX 2014 announced no expo hall at all, do you think it would even sell out? This would mean a lot of people who do panels would be missing as well because they are also exhibitors. If there is no exhibitors, half the parties would be gone as well because those companies wouldn't be hosting them. I think exhibitors are a lot more important that you think in that symbiotic relationship.

  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    Personally, I'm not a big fan of saying "fuck you" to anyone, where PAX is concerned. There's a lot to be balanced to make a PAX, exhibitors and vendors included.

  • Cultural Geek GirlCultural Geek Girl Registered User regular
    edited April 2013
    NgocDT wrote: »
    whypick1 wrote: »
    The past couple of PAXes have streamed one or two theaters via TwitchTV. No ticket needed even.

    Oh awesome. I wish I had known about this the last two years. :P Must have missed it somehow.

    Also, post-pax there are lots of videos of even more panels available, sometimes just days after. Things like Loading Ready Run, and the Gabe and Tycho Q&As get put online pretty consistently, and I'm sure a bunch of other stuff ends up there too.

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  • Chakaal StarrChakaal Starr Registered User regular
    NgocDT wrote: »
    whypick1 wrote: »
    The past couple of PAXes have streamed one or two theaters via TwitchTV. No ticket needed even.

    Oh awesome. I wish I had known about this the last two years. :P Must have missed it somehow.

    Also, post-pax there are lots of videos of even more panels available, sometimes just days after. Things like Loading Ready Run, and the Gabe and Tycho Q&As get put online pretty consistently, and I'm sure a bunch of other stuff ends up there too.

    It is nice that you can check out many videos on youtube afterwards. Unless you intend to stand in the question line, if you had to choose between two great panels, it is nice that you don't really miss it in that aspect.

  • JinxterJinxter Registered User regular
    I am just curious on a couple of points on how tickets were sold. (Already bought my tickets, a friend of mine who works swing-shifts was able to wait in queue for 2.5 hours...).
    1. As PAX Prime is held in Seattle, why is 1030 decided upon as a GOOD time to start ticket sales?
    As a show being held in the NW, wouldn't it be GOOD Customer service to start sales for tickets, for a show that sells out FASTER every year and is held in the NW, after the normal work hours of 0900 - 1700 PST? ...or is it that normal working stiffs, such as myself, are NOT the target audience for this show? At 1030 PST, WHO is being served? School Kids? Nope, most are in school... College Students? Nope...unless they are in class, most are probably still asleep... Granted, tickets sold out like crazy, AGAIN, however, why start at 1030? Why not start sales, for tickets for a show being held in Seattle, NOT start until after 1700, when us working stiffs and those that actually live in this area, MIGHT have a chance to get some tickets without having to arrange a strategy with friends just to be able to secure any. I think this may go a long way to alleviate some of the inevitable frustration for those who want to go, but might just be at work and could NOT sit in queue for hours at a time...
    2. As big as PAX Prime as gotten, WHY haven't you moved to a LARGER venue?
    Possibly rent out a Hangar at Boeing?

  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    1) please read the thread, especially the last few pages. These things have been discussed *a lot*. If you want an official answer, this isn't the place to get it.
    2) please read the thread. These things have been discussed *a lot*. If you want an official answer, this isn't the place to get it.

    The most recent official information was posted on the official website: http://prime.paxsite.com/news/the-registration-sellout-faq

  • ptriz21_teamkillptriz21_teamkill Registered User regular
    zerzhul wrote: »

    The most recent official information was posted on the official website: http://prime.paxsite.com/news/the-registration-sellout-faq

    Wow that FAQ covered this entire discussion.

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    A hangar at boeing is a new idea I haven't seen and would like to see more discussion of.

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  • SimplicitySimplicity Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    edited April 2013
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    A hangar at boeing is a new idea I haven't seen and would like to see more discussion of.

    Won't be a possibility. Too much of a security risk for Boeing.

    Yes people can rent out the hangars for planes but there is a standard set of paper work, and forms to follow. Each person has to have a badge set up through Boeing to step onto hangar floors, or be escorted. That is not something I can see Boeing allowing due to the security of both their commercial side and their defense side.

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  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    A hangar at boeing is a new idea I haven't seen and would like to see more discussion of.
    Nope.

  • GeeCeeGeeCee Registered User regular
    "Presale tickets are available to buyers with a presale code."

    wat?

  • DocanDocan Registered User regular
    GeeCee wrote: »
    "Presale tickets are available to buyers with a presale code."

    wat?

    Saw this pop up this morning would like some information as well.

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  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    When I go here: http://www.showclix.com/event/3750599/

    I see nothing of that sort. You're going to have to be a *lot* more specific. It could just be that there was a source code changeover for showclix (the site does look different) and that it was an artifact of that changeover.

  • DocanDocan Registered User regular
    edited April 2013
    zerzhul wrote: »
    When I go here: http://www.showclix.com/event/3750599/

    I see nothing of that sort. You're going to have to be a *lot* more specific. It could just be that there was a source code changeover for showclix (the site does look different) and that it was an artifact of that changeover.

    You don't see the text box with the text "Presale tickets are available to buyers with a presale code." and a space to enter a presale code underneath it?


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  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    Well that certainly is a lot more specific.

    Must be a cookie thing. Just opened it in incognito and now it shows like that.

    It could be that they're doing testing on the system to prepare for the re-sale of the canceled orders.

  • DocanDocan Registered User regular
    zerzhul wrote: »
    Well that certainly is a lot more specific.

    Must be a cookie thing. Just opened it in incognito and now it shows like that.

    It could be that they're doing testing on the system to prepare for the re-sale of the canceled orders.

    That what i was hoping for. Need 1 Saturday pass still!

    Thanks,
    Zerzhul

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  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    Looks like it was just a bug, and will be repaired. Unrelated to re-sale.

  • DocanDocan Registered User regular
    zerzhul wrote: »
    Looks like it was just a bug, and will be repaired. Unrelated to re-sale.
    Why must you crush my hopes and dreams

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  • Travman93Travman93 Billings, MTRegistered User regular
    kyle1193 wrote: »
    Wouldn't switching the ticket sale date from midweek to the weekend cause more "teenagers" to get tickets? For the most part when I was a teenager I was in high school from 7am-3pm. Unless these "teenagers" are coming from the Seattle area it costs around 1 thousand dollars to even go to PAX and I sure as hell didn't have that lying around when I was in high school.

    Not necessarily. As a teenaged college student, I got my 4 day pass pretty conveniently. I'm in no way boasting about that fact, just pointing out my situation. I can have up to 90 hour paychecks, which are divided between school (No financial aid. Don't like owing people money.) and PAX.

  • bbqninjabbqninja Registered User regular
    Is there Tax and shipping costs for the passes? I didn't get one last year, and I can't remember if does.

  • zeromystzeromyst wat Registered User regular
    bbqninja wrote: »
    Is there Tax and shipping costs for the passes? I didn't get one last year, and I can't remember if does.
    There is no tax charge for the badges. If you ordered over a certain amount of badges (I believe someone said it was 6+) there is a UPS shipping charge of $2.95.

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  • NoxnoctisNoxnoctis Registered User regular
    I so wish I had to pay ups shipping. They need to sell those recouped tickets soon!

  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    zeromyst wrote: »
    bbqninja wrote: »
    Is there Tax and shipping costs for the passes? I didn't get one last year, and I can't remember if does.
    There is no tax charge for the badges. If you ordered over a certain amount of badges (I believe someone said it was 6+) there is a UPS shipping charge of $2.95.
    You could also elect to pay for UPS shipping for smaller orders if you so desired.

  • flatlineflatline Registered User regular
    Sorry if I missed this somewhere, but is there a way to return passes? Things changed and my 4 one-day passes are now useless to me.

    I know there are a lot of people looking for passes, but you guys shouldn't trust me any more than any other random internet stranger, and rather than trying to pick one person out and then have to mail the badges to them in the fall, I'd rather just return them to the pool and assume that PA will open up sales again at some point. Should I just email registration or something?

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  • zeromystzeromyst wat Registered User regular
    flatline wrote: »
    Sorry if I missed this somewhere, but is there a way to return passes? Things changed and my 4 one-day passes are now useless to me.

    I know there are a lot of people looking for passes, but you guys shouldn't trust me any more than any other random internet stranger, and rather than trying to pick one person out and then have to mail the badges to them in the fall, I'd rather just return them to the pool and assume that PA will open up sales again at some point. Should I just email registration or something?
    You can try emailing registration@paxsite.com

    Not sure how easy it will be to get a refund. I remember the showclix registration site stating that there would be no refunds. But if you have an extreme circumstance they might be willing to help you out.

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  • flatlineflatline Registered User regular
    zeromyst wrote: »
    flatline wrote: »
    Sorry if I missed this somewhere, but is there a way to return passes? Things changed and my 4 one-day passes are now useless to me.

    I know there are a lot of people looking for passes, but you guys shouldn't trust me any more than any other random internet stranger, and rather than trying to pick one person out and then have to mail the badges to them in the fall, I'd rather just return them to the pool and assume that PA will open up sales again at some point. Should I just email registration or something?
    You can try emailing registration@paxsite.com

    Not sure how easy it will be to get a refund. I remember the showclix registration site stating that there would be no refunds. But if you have an extreme circumstance they might be willing to help you out.

    I am just trying to be fair. I don't want to abuse the system and sell for a massive profit, as nice as the money would be, and I feel bad picking one person out of the hundreds (thousands?) who want to go and didn't get tickets (also pretty sure I'd get infracted/banned for even thinking about selling on the forums). Plus, like I said, the burden is on me to ship the badges out when they arrive in the fall.

    If there isn't a system for returning badges though, and no officially approved resale method, I guess I'll have to take it off the forums and find someone.

    (Please don't PM me right now about this. I'm going to talk to registration@paxsite first)

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  • PurpleSkyPurpleSky Registered User regular
    flatline wrote: »
    I am just trying to be fair. I don't want to abuse the system and sell for a massive profit, as nice as the money would be, and I feel bad picking one person out of the hundreds (thousands?) who want to go and didn't get tickets (also pretty sure I'd get infracted/banned for even thinking about selling on the forums). Plus, like I said, the burden is on me to ship the badges out when they arrive in the fall.

    If there isn't a system for returning badges though, and no officially approved resale method, I guess I'll have to take it off the forums and find someone.

    (Please don't PM me right now about this. I'm going to talk to registration@paxsite first)

    Really there is nothing wrong with reselling your tickets. If so, sites like StubHub wouldn't exist. Take something like the Packers. In Wisconsin there is a 20 year waiting list to get season tickets. However, people are still able to go to games by buying them from season ticket holders that can't go to every game via sites like StubHub. My friend was able to go to a Packer game last season because of this. So your situation is similar. I would be willing to pay you for a high price to go and it wouldn't bother me. And you shouldn't feel like you're "abusing" the system. Granted I have to take a risk and hope the tickets are legit, but that's why eBay has things like buyer protection. Now if there was a system in place where people like you can place your tickets up for grabs in a more legit manner that's even better. But I am all for the idea of paying more to go if I have the means to. That shouldn't be considered "abuse".

  • NoxnoctisNoxnoctis Registered User regular
    I would trust somebody on this forum before Craigslist.

  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    You shouldn't, especially people without a long history. Also, let's cease that talk before it turns into actually trading passes via the forum, which is verboten.

  • bbqninjabbqninja Registered User regular
    refresh my memory, why is a pass selling thread not aloud?
    there was one one year, face value, anyone who tried to hike the price was to be reported.

  • peetsnackpeetsnack Team Green Poké Assist, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Head Girl House Hufflepuff The Cleave LandsRegistered User regular
    edited May 2013
    bbqninja wrote: »
    refresh my memory, why is a pass selling thread not aloud?
    there was one one year, face value, anyone who tried to hike the price was to be reported.

    Beacuas selling passes on here gives the transaction a false sense of legitimacy. There is no foolproof way to make sure you are not getting a fake badge from resale over the internet, even though the url at the top of the page says penny-arcade.com

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  • bbqninjabbqninja Registered User regular
    peetsnack wrote: »
    bbqninja wrote: »
    refresh my memory, why is a pass selling thread not aloud?
    there was one one year, face value, anyone who tried to hike the price was to be reported.

    Beacuas selling passes on here gives the transaction a false sense of legitimacy. There is no foolproof way to make sure you are not getting a fake badge from resale over the internet, even though the url at the top of the page says penny-arcade.com

    Ahh i see.. this whole pass debacle is rather discouraging.. but I'm not giving up just yet...

  • shadowscoutshadowscout Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    just to go back a bit and ref this and the virtual tickets mentioned before
    The difference I believe between Blizzcon and PAX is obviously the location, but also the internet reliability and strain of all of us on it. Not knowing how big it if is and based on queue system and how fast their two batches went I'd say PAX is twice as big as blizzcon.

    Blizzcon generally has around 26000 attendees (or for the last 3 or 4 I've been to anyway don't see this year being any different as the Anaheim convention centre hasn't gotten any bigger :) ) and your F5'ing to refresh the page get in the ticket queue needs to be done in seconds (and I mean really < 2 seconds if that) even when you get in the queue at the start if your queue position is more than 4000 you might as well forget it.

    I hate to say it but if the PAX ticket sale time was pre-advertised the same thing would probably happen with those tickets.

    Ref the virtual ticket - that is pretty much available the way it is due to the partnership with Direct TV, the have a metric ton of broadcasting equipment at the event and do take up a chunk of space. there was some streaming in the years before that and some panels are streamed free on the blizz site.

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  • NoxnoctisNoxnoctis Registered User regular
    Anyway to know if the re-sale is finished'? Really starting to fray the nerves checking the site every few hours.

  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    I'm sure that http://twitter.com/official_pax will tweet something when it starts and ends. Or at least when it ends.

  • bbqninjabbqninja Registered User regular
    Is there an estimate on how many are on re-sale?

  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    Nope.

  • bbqninjabbqninja Registered User regular
    Been constantly motioning the site for the resales to appear... it's becoming nerve wracking.. as much as I love PAX, it's driving me crazy..

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