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prime 2014 save the date
This certainly isn't any sort of official announcement, but the WSCC has the (most likely) dates up for prime 2014.
http://wscc.com/about_us/calendar.aspx
Friday, August 29th through Monday, September 1st 2014.
http://wscc.com/about_us/calendar.aspx
Friday, August 29th through Monday, September 1st 2014.
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Dangit! I hate when tickets sell out in -200 days.
Tickets will likely go on sale in April or May 2014, but nobody knows for sure.
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That makes sense then.
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The downside is that the tickets will only go to people that can afford to sit around and check twitter and forums all day for a month, watching for that announcement of the sale starting.
I get it, there's a massive imbalance between demand and supply with regard to ticket sales. Still, steps could be taken to help ensure that those that want to attend have as fair a chance as anyone at actually getting a ticket.
Enforced: West 2015, West 2016
I noticed that for 2012, interactiveticketing.com was used, but 2013 used showclix.com
Wonder who they are going to use this year.
EDIT: Considering that East and Dev are using showclix, I'm going to guess that they are sticking with them for Prime. Time to make sure my account info on the site is current and I can log in.
There's not much you can do besides be on the ball when passes go on sale, so there's one less pass being scalped, or one less pass that PA has to worry about reclaiming.
But doing that means a couple things: it also gives scalpers a chance to be ready. Also, didn't the registration page on paxsite go down because of all the people F5ing when registration went up? Official_PAX had to tweet out the showclix address.
The unannounced registration opening rewarded the people who were dedicated enough to camp the site, or have a friend camp it for them.
Give advance warning, and everyone and their mother is camping and crashing the site.
Also, no matter how dedicated a fan I am I cannot skip work over an entire day for several days camping the site. And as an adult fan not in the gaming industry I don't have friends who can do it for me, since they don't share my gaming interest. I would like to not be penalized by these handicaps or feel like less of fan or less deserving of attending because I have work responsibilities.
They use a very similar system when applying for hunting tags here in Alberta (and I'd presume in many other places).
There are lots of people with work responsibilities that are able to get tickets even without relying on friends. No matter what they do a lot of deserving fans will miss out. Changing the system only makes it so a different set of deserving fans miss out.