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Pax Prime is no more.

SkeleVaderSkeleVader Your Friendly Dark Lord of DestructionRegistered User regular
in PAX West
A wild re-branding appears!

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  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited November 2015
    OLD NEWS ;)

    Did you make that graphic btw? I don't see it anywhere.

    PAX West is a much superior name to PAX Prime.

    zerzhul on
  • SkeleVaderSkeleVader Your Friendly Dark Lord of Destruction Registered User regular
    zerzhul wrote: »
    OLD NEWS ;)

    Did you make that graphic btw? I don't see it anywhere.

    PAX West is a much superior name to PAX Prime.

    I just copied the theme of the graphic on the East showclix page. I threw it together in a bout 5 min, so the font doesn't match.

    PAX PRIME WILL NEVER DIE!

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  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    what is dead may never die

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    This upsets me. :/

    This feels like a change made primarily to make things easier for their business partners.

    Hrmph.

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    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • Jordman12Jordman12 Registered User regular
    I thought this was a joke. They are seriously renaming Prime to West?

    2015 PAX East Omeganaut
    2016 PAX East Omeganaut

    HAIL HATS !!!!!!!

    @Jordman12
  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    It is not a joke.

  • zealezeale Saint LouisRegistered User regular
    My guess is that it's to make the other two US PAXen to not sound like lesser shows compared to the "main" one. Hopefully the rebranding will possibly disperse new PAX-goers to an extent if they are on the fence about which to attend.

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  • VGguy49VGguy49 Registered User regular
    I honestly thought the Mario Maker stage name was a mistake and got annoyed when sites said it was from the "PAX West 2016 Omegathon"
    Seems I was proven wrong

    When will the site update to this?

    Wishes he could change his username
  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    VGguy49 wrote: »
    When will the site update to this?
    Probably after PAX East when they start prepping for selling PAX West badges.

  • bacon_avengerbacon_avenger Defender of Pork Products Pacific NW, USARegistered User regular
    Makes sense.

    PA has said that they don't consider one better than another, which the name "Prime" did kind of go against that statement. It also "fits" better with East, South, and Australia (I do think that PAX Aus should be renamed to PAX Spider or Drop Bear, but that may just be me).

    But I do have to admit that in the cockles of my heart, perhaps even the sub-cockles, knowing that West is where it started (and where I first got looped into this crazy ball of awesomeness), makes it "Prime" to me.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Was Prime ever a formal name for it? I thought all the West merch just had PAX and nothing else.

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  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    Bobkins Flymo wrote: »
    Was Prime ever a formal name for it? I thought all the West merch just had PAX and nothing else.
    http://prime.paxsite.com has been the website ever since East was launched. It was never on the merch, but it was utilized quite a bit.

  • bacon_avengerbacon_avenger Defender of Pork Products Pacific NW, USARegistered User regular
    zerzhul wrote: »
    Bobkins Flymo wrote: »
    Was Prime ever a formal name for it? I thought all the West merch just had PAX and nothing else.
    http://prime.paxsite.com has been the website ever since East was launched. It was never on the merch, but it was utilized quite a bit.
    Actually, it was on a few things. 2013 had at least two shirts, 2014 had at least one shirt and pin.

    Non-merch, it was on the stickers on the bobcats, and the registration paper that came with said bobcats referred to it as PAX Prime.

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  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    Oh, right, the retro shirt and the 10th anniversary shirts!

  • bacon_avengerbacon_avenger Defender of Pork Products Pacific NW, USARegistered User regular
    zerzhul wrote: »
    Oh, right, the retro shirt and the 10th anniversary shirts!
    I wonder, now that PAX "Prime" is no longer, does that make the merch I have a 'collectors' item? Not that I'm ever going to sell or otherwise get rid of them, but still... :P ;)

    (Side note: Anyone else notice that the calendar for WSCC doesn't list PAX yet? I could have sworn it was on there for 2015 at this time...)

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  • SkeleVaderSkeleVader Your Friendly Dark Lord of Destruction Registered User regular
    bacon_avenger wrote: »
    zerzhul wrote: »
    Oh, right, the retro shirt and the 10th anniversary shirts!
    I wonder, now that PAX "Prime" is no longer, does that make the merch I have a 'collectors' item? Not that I'm ever going to sell or otherwise get rid of them, but still... :P ;)

    (Side note: Anyone else notice that the calendar for WSCC doesn't list PAX yet? I could have sworn it was on there for 2015 at this time...)

    They did that with East as well. Robert has mentioned he feels announcing even the date of the Pax lets scalpers prepare so I think they have asked the convention centers to no longer put up the date on their website.

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  • ArtereisArtereis Registered User regular
    You can change your branding, but you can never change my heart.

  • pc_meanpc_mean Registered User new member
    So is there a website for it now?

  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    Why in my day it was just called PAX. We didn't have any of these fancy other PAX cons.

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  • D0rkAnglD0rkAngl Lynnwood, WARegistered User regular
    PAX Prime is dead. Long live PAX Prime.

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  • krae_mankrae_man Registered User regular
    The day west.paxsite.com starts working is the day we can start freaking out.

  • SkeleVaderSkeleVader Your Friendly Dark Lord of Destruction Registered User regular
    edited April 2016
    krae_man wrote: »
    The day west.paxsite.com starts working is the day we can start freaking out.

    Not completely true. East did not update the pax site before they released tickets last time.

    Edit: realized I was in the wrong thread. Thought we were taking about ticket sales. My bad.

    SkeleVader on
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  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    Artereis wrote: »
    You can change your branding, but you can never change my heart.

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    Till all are one!

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  • BekerBeker - Registered User regular
    krae_man wrote: »
    The day west.paxsite.com starts working is the day we can start freaking out.

    You didn't realize that works now?

    -Beker/Erick
  • RavenHuskyRavenHusky Registered User regular
    Beker wrote: »
    krae_man wrote: »
    The day west.paxsite.com starts working is the day we can start freaking out.

    You didn't realize that works now?

    Cue freaking out!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7dp9OSqpdU

    It would help if all the links point to West instead of Prime.

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  • wolfemancswolfemancs Registered User regular
    Beker wrote: »
    krae_man wrote: »
    The day west.paxsite.com starts working is the day we can start freaking out.

    You didn't realize that works now?

    Well THAT'S new!

    I tried west 2-3 days ago (yesterday?) and it didn't work.

  • Nfan10039Nfan10039 Streamer/Gamer/Developer Montreal (Seattle eventually....)Registered User regular
    West.paxsite.com doesn't work for me yet

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    Also a computer scientist and a streamer.
  • David CoffmanDavid Coffman Registered User, PAX Staff regular
    west.paxsite.com is in the process of propagating to dns servers AS WE TYPE. It probably works for most of you now, and for those it doesn't, it should be soon-ish. It doesn't mean badges will be available in the next few days, and in fact, South registration will come first.

  • DapperPumpkinDapperPumpkin Registered User regular
    David Coffman wrote: »
    west.paxsite.com is in the process of propagating to dns servers AS WE TYPE. It probably works for most of you now, and for those it doesn't, it should be soon-ish. It doesn't mean badges will be available in the next few days, and in fact, South registration will come first.
    Ah hah! I totally had a feeling South registration would be before West.

  • K!LL@RK!LL@R Registered User regular
    Dave, you should have just sent out a tweet that badges are on sale on May 17th. South would have sold out before anyone noticed.

  • krae_mankrae_man Registered User regular
    Yes, cue freaking out!

  • mral777mral777 Sacramento, CARegistered User regular
    They decided to go with PAX West because PAX Super Awesome Sparkle Cake wouldn't fit on the badges. So it basically came down to just using geographic location. True story I just made up... ...

  • kbschmidkbschmid Calgary, ABRegistered User regular
    PAX Prime was a bit derivative.

    Sorry for the math joke. I'll see myself out.

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    By night, a gamer.
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  • whypick1whypick1 PAX [E] Info Booth Manager ~2' from an LCDRegistered User regular
    PAX Prime had very few roots, but they were strong.

    (Now that's a math joke)

    Is it PAX <insert nearest future PAX here> yet?
  • utterotterutterotter Registered User regular
    I love on the paxsite.com, that PAX is Seattle and all the rest have further description (South, Dev, etc)

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