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Ok, I just booked a hotel then. JUST BECAUSE YOU SAID SO JESS.
Jimmy! JIMMAY
How much did it cost you to fly when you went? Out of curiosity. Also @Fyndir same question.
edit: As long as you don't mind saying! I'd get if you don't want to.
Buy him lots of drinks.
Then call us and we'll do the rest.
That's not a good question because I booked at 3 night stay at the Sheraton by myself which I think was $800 by itself!!
The next year where I'd learned my lesson, I think I got away with doing it for £500-600 but flights were cheaper then.
If I could, I'd go again in a heartbeat.
Haha! Sounds like a good plan, get Dave drunk and have him take me as hand luggage right?
That is MUCH cheaper, its looking about a £900 on a quick google search thats without all the hotels, train Manc-Ldn, so on and so on.
You got a good deal when you did go!
I promise nothing, I may be too busy hiding from the yellow face and drinking every last drop of water I can acquire in the barren wasteland.
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Oh well, one day I'll go.
I'm lucky enough to go a few times in my life already. I hope ya'll have fun, make friends, and experience an awesome adventure!
I went once, and it was lovely, and buying tickets was a leisurely click.
I think that's enough for me.
1) A lot of those passes are probably counterfeit.
2) There is no system that has been devised that hasn't been beat by people determined to make money from it. Like, this system only lets you buy 4. But you can beat that with PO Boxes and multiple credit cards really easily.
I don't even know how to begin coordinating a hotel room
Especially because I don't aaaaaactually know how easy it'll be for me to actually take time off work for this hahaha I am adult, I make smart choice with money numbers
Yeah Baltimore hotel rooms are fucking intense too, because there are so damn few good hotels in Baltimore
Reason #1 I'm looking forward to DC Otakon, really
i'd like to see some means to give more advance notice when passes go on sale, but besides that, PAX Prime will always have capacity problems.
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Trying to get a hotel room for D*C is the worst
Fortunately I'm just a few miles outside the perimeter so I just take the train in, but it can be kind of a bummer since the train and bus schedule dictates when I have to head out
Also PAX tickets are EXTREMELY cheap, $35 for a day is ridiculously inexpensive. An economist's way of fixing the problem would be to increase ticket prices so demand drops to better match the supply. PAX refuses to do that though due to pledging to stay cheap so we end up with this mad dash where only people who prepped with Twitter text messages and who are in a position at that moment in time to jump on it can get a ticket. I mean Blizzard sells their 2 day Blizzcon tickets for $200 and they have similar problems as PAX in regards to instantly selling out, so I wonder just how much money PAX would have to charge to make demand low enough.
You should absolutely room with Mysst.
I mean, I'm down
Also Pax Prime seems to always get the most "new" game stuff vs East or Aus.
Or they just keep adding PAXes until they quit selling out.
Like, GDC is a professional conference that happens to invite the press. It isn't a public event and wouldn't work as one. E3 is a huge clusterfuck as-is; inviting the public would just make it worse.
But that means traveling across the world, or uh Texas. Texas might be alright in January.
pretend I posted that achewood panel of somebody laughing here
But in all seriousness, I don't think adding more PAXs is a surefire solution either. East sells out same day now too compared to when it just started a few years ago, dunno about Aus sales history but I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a mad dash on South tickets when they go on sale too.