PAX East 2014 badges and hotels

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  • Comp625Comp625 Registered User new member
    The link (http://t.co/RdvWuYhwAp) will actually get me to the Ticket Selection Page, but the Checkout Page is still clocking...and clocking...and clocking. I've already exhausted my window of time to purchase the ticket TWICE. This sucks.

    Looks like I'll have to resort to fleaBay this year.

  • EchoZeroEchoZero Registered User regular
    Well, had to get 5 single day sets thanks to all the server errors and stuff. If i lost them cause i was too slow i wouldnt care as much but these servers are ridiculous. I love an extra 50 per person because the servers cant handle the load.

    Oh well i have my badges and only 1 of the 2 needed hotel rooms but at least i can say im going to pax. That was still a painful 1.5 hours

  • nethervoidnethervoid Registered User new member
    JDiPierro wrote: »
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/PAX-EAST-3-Day-Badge-Pass-Ticket-BOSTON-MA-2014-Penny-Arcade-Expo-SOLD-OUT-/291002103004?pt=US_Tickets_all_in_one&hash=item43c113b4dc

    Scalpers are a problem. This person has 10+ tickets and is offering them at 500 a pop... these people are fucking disgusting and I'm disgusted at the way PAX is handling this.

    3 day NYCC tickets lasted almost over a week. PAX 3 days don't even make it through the Fog of War.

  • shepdshepd Registered User regular
    Super3dcow wrote: »
    They clearly need to upgrade to a bigger venue. No event should ever sell out in minutes. This sucks.

    BCEC is basically the biggest indoors conference center in North America. I keep saying to friends they could use the CNE grounds in Toronto, but it's outdoors, so they figure everything will just blow up when it rains. LOL. However, the CNE does handle many more than 70,000.

  • rascrushrascrush Registered User regular
    any idea how long that email should take to get they have charged my card but I have yet to get a email

  • VGVideoGalaxyVGVideoGalaxy Northern VirginiaRegistered User regular
    Freemann wrote: »
    WOW So somebody just put up 10 3-days on e-bay what scum

    I understand there is a profit to be made, but I don't see how you can morally buy 10 tickets knowing you are taking away peoples chances of going. It sucks that people do that.

  • GeekyPanda404GeekyPanda404 The Geeky Panda ConnecticutRegistered User regular
    Paine wrote: »
    JDiPierro wrote: »
    ALB247 wrote: »
    shepd wrote: »
    ChimneyImp wrote: »
    Is this a record? Does this beat Prime last year?

    I got 3 1 days.

    Not a record, but close. 43 minutes from sale to gone.

    That's how long it took to sell-out. If you weren't waiting in the queue by 12:15p EST then you were out of luck. I got kicked out around 12:45p when they sold out.

    Yeah, you had literally 3-4 minutes to get into the queue, and this was without the main site working. I know that they claim scalpers aren't a real problem, but the jump is absolutely massive from last year. Is the difference entirely attributable to people panicking and piling in immediately?

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/PAX-EAST-3-Day-Badge-Pass-Ticket-BOSTON-MA-2014-Penny-Arcade-Expo-SOLD-OUT-/291002103004?pt=US_Tickets_all_in_one&hash=item43c113b4dc

    Scalpers are a problem. This person has 10+ tickets and is offering them at 500 a pop... these people are fucking disgusting and I'm disgusted at the way PAX is handling this.

    PAX: Refund ALL ticket sales and re-open them, limiting 3-days to 5 per person.

    There already is a 5 per person limit as it states on the site. Any orders above that will be cancelled.

    People will still find a way around this.

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  • JDiPierroJDiPierro Registered User new member
    Super3dcow wrote: »
    They clearly need to upgrade to a bigger venue. No event should ever sell out in minutes. This sucks.

    It's not that it's legitimately selling out.. it's that some assholes are buying up all the 3 day passes and selling them on ebay.

  • DelaneyDelaney Registered User regular
    I really love trying to play the game properly and getting hosed anyway. Follow the forums, keep up on the site, be ready for the announced launch window... and then have the ACTUAL registration site given out over another venue. Just... freaking... brilliant.

    "I will participate in the game. It's a wonderful, wonderful opera, except that it hurts." - Joseph Campbell

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  • TheOtherHorsemanTheOtherHorseman Registered User regular
    JDiPierro wrote: »
    Scalpers are a problem. This person has 10+ tickets and is offering them at 500 a pop... these people are fucking disgusting and I'm disgusted at the way PAX is handling this.

    PAX: Refund ALL ticket sales and re-open them, limiting 3-days to 5 per person.

    I'm pretty sure 5 per person was already the limit. Doesn't stop 2 people from buying 5 each and having one of them list 10 on Ebay, though. Nothing ever would.

  • TopherRocksTopherRocks Rockstar Beard Grower Kent, OH or Long Island, NYRegistered User regular
    JDiPierro wrote: »
    3 day tickets are already sold out? This is absolutely disgusting.. PA clearly doesn't give a shit about the people attending... there should be a limit of how many 3 day passes someone can buy.. they're already on Ebay for $500...
    There IS a limit.

  • macross33macross33 MARegistered User regular
    I've almost had a room 10 times now.... waiting in the ticket que now for 30+ minutes

  • EradiKateEradiKate Registered User regular
    Paine wrote: »
    JDiPierro wrote: »
    ALB247 wrote: »
    shepd wrote: »
    ChimneyImp wrote: »
    Is this a record? Does this beat Prime last year?

    I got 3 1 days.

    Not a record, but close. 43 minutes from sale to gone.

    That's how long it took to sell-out. If you weren't waiting in the queue by 12:15p EST then you were out of luck. I got kicked out around 12:45p when they sold out.

    Yeah, you had literally 3-4 minutes to get into the queue, and this was without the main site working. I know that they claim scalpers aren't a real problem, but the jump is absolutely massive from last year. Is the difference entirely attributable to people panicking and piling in immediately?

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/PAX-EAST-3-Day-Badge-Pass-Ticket-BOSTON-MA-2014-Penny-Arcade-Expo-SOLD-OUT-/291002103004?pt=US_Tickets_all_in_one&hash=item43c113b4dc

    Scalpers are a problem. This person has 10+ tickets and is offering them at 500 a pop... these people are fucking disgusting and I'm disgusted at the way PAX is handling this.

    PAX: Refund ALL ticket sales and re-open them, limiting 3-days to 5 per person.

    There already is a 5 per person limit as it states on the site. Any orders above that will be cancelled.

    People will still find a way around this.

    Yes, but that's no reason to take tickets away from the people who didn't game the system.

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  • DurinthalDurinthal Registered User regular
    JDiPierro wrote: »
    It's not that it's legitimately selling out.. it's that some assholes are buying up all the 3 day passes and selling them on ebay.
    There are well over 100,000 people trying to go to an event that can hold 70,000. Of course it's going to sell out. Khoo has said in the past that scalpers are a minor issue and even then they're fighting them.

  • BSGRushBSGRush Registered User regular
    Why post the link on twitter before available thru website? That was a joke! I was hitting refresh on website non stop waiting for them to be available. I have been checking the website for 2 weeks for this. I am following them on twitter but I was not expecting them to post a link for tix before they were available on their own damn website! CMON PAX FIX THIS!

  • melzwaymelzway Registered User regular
    I was able to get the individual day passes cause the three day apparently sold out while I was in queue. I'm very upset about that but I'm more upset about the scalpers. Someone is selling three day passes on eBay!!! It was not a good idea to give advice notice. Last year seemed to work much smoother. I hope this is reconsidered next year.

  • ddrussianinjaddrussianinja Registered User regular
    I'm not exactly complaining too hard because I managed to get a hotel and a 3-day pass, but I'm joining the choir of people who think that this setup was pretty unfair. And I also agree that it was ironically made far less fair by pre-announcing the launch on Twitter, which I assume was done in an effort to make it more fair.

    I mean, the problem last year (and in previous years) was that people who frequented the boards and Twitter essentially got first pick of the hotels and people who were out of the loop regarding Twitter or who were unexpectedly busy during the launch day couldn't get a 3-day pass.

    So they decided to pre-announce the launch date so that people could clear their schedules or whatever and make it more fair.

    Except that by doing that, they basically got everybody laying in wait for the go-live. The result was that when OnPeak inevitably had some glitch that allowed mobile users through early, people who frequented the boards and had mobile devices were pretty much the only ones to get access, and even worse, most of the larger-capacity rooms for Thursday at the Westin had already been taken even before then (I assume they were claimed by Exhibitors and Enforcers earlier in the day or perhaps through some other exploit). Then when the registration went live, only people who frequented the boards and Twitter were able to get 3-day passes and those who didn't exploit the mobile glitch for hotels got hit with server issues. So even some of the people who were ready and waiting were still screwed out of it.

    So by pre-announcing the launch date and time to make it more fair, they actually just made it next to impossible to get a good hotel room, more difficult to get ANY hotel room, and even harder to get a 3-day pass.

    I know making the launch a "surprise" may not exactly be "fair", but at least last year the websites didn't crash constantly and 3-day passes took most of the day to sell out.

    I'm glad I managed to be privileged enough to get a Westin room and a 3-day pass, because otherwise I'd probably be pretty damn upset.

  • nethervoidnethervoid Registered User new member
    gwidion wrote: »
    You were only able to purchase 5.

    Most likely 5 per account not 5 per IP or MAC address. It's not really that hard to brute force 5 machine or 5 browser windows into the queue with these requests and put the charges through to unique accounts.

  • VGVideoGalaxyVGVideoGalaxy Northern VirginiaRegistered User regular
    Anyone else still getting a "Our servers overslept" error on OnPeak?

  • aweisbergaweisberg Registered User regular
    What wait times is everyone seeing? I have been in for 20 minutes or so. I guess it doesn't matter, it's not like I can fix it if it is broken.

  • WolfieeWolfiee Web/Graphic Designer and Illustrator MARegistered User regular
    Got through to pick stuff about my room and then server error. Grrr.

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  • JayDfromMAJayDfromMA MARegistered User regular
    Guys trying to get passes keep checking for single days. I got mine that way!

  • macross33macross33 MARegistered User regular
    Tickets should have the purchasers name and that person is required to show an ID to use them for his party. Buy 5, get all 5 together and go in with that person.

  • ALB247ALB247 Registered User regular
    edited October 2013
    Quintious wrote: »
    cabsy wrote: »
    Quintious wrote: »
    2) You can buy badges right at the convention for somewhere between face value and face value + $10

    Right? Right?

    This is not true please do not bank on this. They will not have passes at the door, unless you are referring to purchasing badges from scalpers which are almost certainly fakes, in which case shame on you

    "Almost certainly", eh? I've been to a dozen PAX's, and I've NEVER seen someone selling a fake badge. Furthermore, the Enforcers will validate a badge right there for you so you know you won't get a fake. Way to talk like you have any idea what you're saying without actually having the knowledge.

    Dude...it happens for EVERY live event. You're not looking then.

    ALB247 on
  • MLCodestMLCodest Registered User regular
    Anyone else still getting a "Our servers overslept" error on OnPeak?

    Yup I got it right as I was about to book a hotel.

  • GeeGussumGeeGussum Registered User regular
    Freemann wrote: »
    WOW So somebody just put up 10 3-days on e-bay for $500 each what scum

    Are you talking about this eBay seller:

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/PAX-EAST-3-Day-Badge-Pass-Ticket-BOSTON-MA-2014-Penny-Arcade-Expo-SOLD-OUT-/291002103004?pt=US_Tickets_all_in_one&hash=item43c113b4dc

    Yeah, profiting 550% per ticket on the day the tickets are being sold is ludicrous!!! I'm going to have to agree with your assessment.

  • GoofballGoofball Registered User regular
    shepd wrote: »
    Super3dcow wrote: »
    They clearly need to upgrade to a bigger venue. No event should ever sell out in minutes. This sucks.

    BCEC is basically the biggest indoors conference center in North America. I keep saying to friends they could use the CNE grounds in Toronto, but it's outdoors, so they figure everything will just blow up when it rains. LOL. However, the CNE does handle many more than 70,000.

    BCEC isn't even close to the largest indoor conference center in North America.

    Las Vegas, New Orleans, Chicago and several others are all substantially larger in both exhibition floor and meeting space square footage.

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  • AxonAxon Registered User regular
    It's come to the point where badges need to be released in waves. E.g., one wave of 15,000 on 10/23, one wave on 10/28, etc.

  • geekmeninageekmenina Western MARegistered User regular
    I'm not exactly complaining too hard because I managed to get a hotel and a 3-day pass, but I'm joining the choir of people who think that this setup was pretty unfair. And I also agree that it was ironically made far less fair by pre-announcing the launch on Twitter, which I assume was done in an effort to make it more fair.

    I mean, the problem last year (and in previous years) was that people who frequented the boards and Twitter essentially got first pick of the hotels and people who were out of the loop regarding Twitter or who were unexpectedly busy during the launch day couldn't get a 3-day pass.

    So they decided to pre-announce the launch date so that people could clear their schedules or whatever and make it more fair.

    Except that by doing that, they basically got everybody laying in wait for the go-live. The result was that when OnPeak inevitably had some glitch that allowed mobile users through early, people who frequented the boards and had mobile devices were pretty much the only ones to get access, and even worse, most of the larger-capacity rooms for Thursday at the Westin had already been taken even before then (I assume they were claimed by Exhibitors and Enforcers earlier in the day or perhaps through some other exploit). Then when the registration went live, only people who frequented the boards and Twitter were able to get 3-day passes and those who didn't exploit the mobile glitch for hotels got hit with server issues. So even some of the people who were ready and waiting were still screwed out of it.

    So by pre-announcing the launch date and time to make it more fair, they actually just made it next to impossible to get a good hotel room, more difficult to get ANY hotel room, and even harder to get a 3-day pass.

    I know making the launch a "surprise" may not exactly be "fair", but at least last year the websites didn't crash constantly and 3-day passes took most of the day to sell out.

    I'm glad I managed to be privileged enough to get a Westin room and a 3-day pass, because otherwise I'd probably be pretty damn upset.

    You need roommates? LOL I had the Westin room booked and it error'ed out on my credit card processing. Grrrr.

  • CodextehFishCodextehFish Vancouver, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Anyone been able to get on OnPeak in the last 5 mins? We've been trying desperately (my friend and I) since sales went live. Got our passes no problem, but so far no where to sleep

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  • KnightmareKnightmare PittsburghRegistered User regular
    That was incredibly painful but, I finally managed to get a sale through.

    Good luck to everyone still trying to get in. Godspeed!

  • GeekyPanda404GeekyPanda404 The Geeky Panda ConnecticutRegistered User regular
    Patiently waiting in line to pick up my badge, I was hoping I get paid so I can buy 2 sets of Fri-Sun passes for myself and a friend of mine flying in but I am praying I can still get the single day passes on my Pay Day Friday.

    Hotel wise I am not worried, I've already reserved a hotel room back in May.

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  • TraitoriousTraitorious Registered User regular
    I just hope OnPeak allows me to continue from where I left off in the hotel booking process (one click from finishing) when their servers come back up. Announcing the date/time ahead of time did them no favors. Our group had no issues with OnPeak in our prior years, but they just couldn't handle the advanced notice for East '14 sales.

  • DolarrahDolarrah New JerseyRegistered User regular
    Been in queue for over an hour, 3 days were sold old before they went on sale. As soon as site came live I clicked it and immediate was brought to sold out page.

    Can't get past queue.

    Got the BYOC tickets no issue, but looks like I may not get tickets to use BYOC


  • ALB247ALB247 Registered User regular
    Goofball wrote: »
    shepd wrote: »
    Super3dcow wrote: »
    They clearly need to upgrade to a bigger venue. No event should ever sell out in minutes. This sucks.

    BCEC is basically the biggest indoors conference center in North America. I keep saying to friends they could use the CNE grounds in Toronto, but it's outdoors, so they figure everything will just blow up when it rains. LOL. However, the CNE does handle many more than 70,000.

    BCEC isn't even close to the largest indoor conference center in North America.

    Las Vegas, New Orleans, Chicago and several others are all substantially larger in both exhibition floor and meeting space square footage.

    And also nowhere near the East Coast.

  • pilferkpilferk Master of Unlocking CTRegistered User regular
    PhoBaoBoa wrote: »
    Don't worry everyone! There are tons of badges available for the small price of $500 on ebay! What a steal! And so totally fair...

    Why would anyone in their right mind pay $500 for a 3 day pass when you can get 3 single days for $120 directly from the source? Makes no sense to me....

  • The_MadHatter_The_MadHatter_ Registered User regular
    No matter what PA does, there are going to be people or are unhappy if not completely pissed off with the way the registration was handled since they couldn't get tickets. They can't please everybody.



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  • vttymvttym Ardent Gamer Northern NJRegistered User regular
    I'm thankful I was able to get rooms at the seaport again this year, though it was a lesson in patience with the CTRL-F5 keys. 3 1-day passes were acquired for myself and a friend, but another friend is still trying. If they can get theirs, then despite all the madness, I'll be content knowing everyone got what they needed.

  • GhostDanGhostDan Registered User regular
    nethervoid wrote: »
    gwidion wrote: »
    You were only able to purchase 5.

    Most likely 5 per account not 5 per IP or MAC address. It's not really that hard to brute force 5 machine or 5 browser windows into the queue with these requests and put the charges through to unique accounts.

    Actually it's 5 per household. Some people will get through it like you just said and order more, and then PA will go through and free up those tickets later, just like they did for Prime.

  • SerpicoBCSerpicoBC Registered User regular
    I requeued up about 30 minutes ago to shoot for the single day passes. Anyone still in there?

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