It honestly just doesn't make sense for them to go on sale so quickly after South. It would kill any momentum for the South sale.
We are already looking at badges likely going on sale the latest they ever have before.
I know that upsets people who have to travel a long ways because of ticketing issues.
But I agree, It is kind of soon after.
Are there any chances of them going up on the weekend?
Minimal. Their devs and support people won't be in the office and it's almost an annual occurrence that something goes wrong.
And even if it went "right" they still have to filter out and relist all the fraudulent purchases. Which is propbably why West and East haven't gone on sale on a Friday since 2011 (when it too 20 days to sell out of 3-Day passes)
Are there any chances of them going up on the weekend?
Minimal. Their devs and support people won't be in the office and it's almost an annual occurrence that something goes wrong.
And even if it went "right" they still have to filter out and relist all the fraudulent purchases. Which is propbably why West and East haven't gone on sale on a Friday since 2011 (when it too 20 days to sell out of 3-Day passes)
you made me think of the Unexpected Hanging Paradox. If we know the badges won't go on sale on the weekend or Friday(because they need to have staff working there and more time to fix problems) but we also know they have to make sure the scalpers are unable to predict the date, so it can't be on a Thursday......ect.
Just something I found funny, for all we know they might staff on one of these weekends just to mess with the scalpers
Really, really, REALLY hope it's not tomorrow. At least not til after noon Eastern. I have no way to maintain access. I'm actually posting this from a plane, which wasn't cheap!
I don't think sale have ever started before 10 pacific, so you should be good
First year my work blocked Pax site (why, I don't know - maybe I F5'd too much and they noticed). So will be completely dependent on buying this on the phone, ugh... The queue on it seems slower than on a PC for whatever reason.
I want it to be today so I can stop hovering over my computer like a crazy person.
Same here, also watch for random strange tweets from Roberts. For East 2015 he tweeted some random nutcracker thing and tickets go on sale 30 mins later.
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Attended: East 14, 15 and West 16
Attending West 2019
I want it to be today or tomorrow or Thursday. I am out of town after that for a few days and will have limited phone access.
But I also want to just stop freaking out internally about it so just get it over with PA!
Next PAX: West 2017!
Flight: [X]
Lodging: [X]
Passes: [X]
Excitement: [10/10]
My phone died last night, because I forgot to charge it. I turned it on and it started tweeting like crazy. Freaked me out but it was only battleborn stuff, lol.
I guess you could say I have a "dedicated PAX Twitter account" but it's my only twitter account xD I signed up for Twitter for badge sales.
I follow three things now - all PAX related.
(Well maybe more, I may have followed stuff for booths, but I don't pay attention.)
The PAX dreams have begun for me.
I had a dream I was outside at work, carrying a box, when I got a tweet. It said that badges were already sold out, stop asking. And then I panicked because I never got the tweet saying they went on sale.
Also, I guess someone on Reddit found the prepped Showclix link for West 2016 tickets. Shows up blank of course but I'm not sure how far ahead those things get set up before ticket sales.
I hadn't even realized how close we are to the sale. I've been prepped for about the last month of course, but time seems to have passed pretty quickly. Now I'm over-compensating by panicking about how I wasn't panicking enough before. Torn between wanting them to just go ahead and get on sale or wait until more funds are available to me.
Well, the PA offices aren't in Seattle proper, they are in Redmond. And Showclix is in Pittsburgh.
But the majority of PAX West is people from the Seattle area. Putting tickets on sale when they specifically can't buy them is something they might avoid. Especially since it would give the scalpers time to mobilize and be ready for the moment the power came back.
Well, the PA offices aren't in Seattle proper, they are in Redmond. And Showclix is in Pittsburgh.
But the majority of PAX West is people from the Seattle area. Putting tickets on sale when they specifically can't buy them is something they might avoid. Especially since it would give the scalpers time to mobilize and be ready for the moment the power came back.
Seattle area? You think so?
So I checked the site and it said how much time until PAX: 99 Days 23 Hrs 14 Mins 50 Secs
Well, the PA offices aren't in Seattle proper, they are in Redmond. And Showclix is in Pittsburgh.
But the majority of PAX West is people from the Seattle area. Putting tickets on sale when they specifically can't buy them is something they might avoid. Especially since it would give the scalpers time to mobilize and be ready for the moment the power came back.
The outage was in the heart of downtown Seattle only. I live 25 minutes away and my power has been fine.
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Ahahaha, great answer ♥
It honestly just doesn't make sense for them to go on sale so quickly after South. It would kill any momentum for the South sale.
We are already looking at badges likely going on sale the latest they ever have before.
I know that upsets people who have to travel a long ways because of ticketing issues.
But I agree, It is kind of soon after.
I'm just hoping the badges don't go on sale on May 31 or June 1 because I have doctor appointments both those days
I'm going to say no, but don't turn off your notifications.
Minimal. Their devs and support people won't be in the office and it's almost an annual occurrence that something goes wrong.
And even if it went "right" they still have to filter out and relist all the fraudulent purchases. Which is propbably why West and East haven't gone on sale on a Friday since 2011 (when it too 20 days to sell out of 3-Day passes)
you made me think of the Unexpected Hanging Paradox. If we know the badges won't go on sale on the weekend or Friday(because they need to have staff working there and more time to fix problems) but we also know they have to make sure the scalpers are unable to predict the date, so it can't be on a Thursday......ect.
Just something I found funny, for all we know they might staff on one of these weekends just to mess with the scalpers
The only time any PAX went on sale on a Tuesday was last week when South did. So, today, Wednesday, and Thursday are all quite likely.
Same here, also watch for random strange tweets from Roberts. For East 2015 he tweeted some random nutcracker thing and tickets go on sale 30 mins later.
Attended: East 14, 15 and West 16
Attending West 2019
But I also want to just stop freaking out internally about it so just get it over with PA!
Flight: [X]
Lodging: [X]
Passes: [X]
Excitement: [10/10]
It still may happen at 4 EST.
(Ugh i almost had a panic attack when my phone started to vibrate, but it was just a telemarketer)
Edit: Well guess today is a no go, see ya all tomorrow maybe tomorrow will be the day.
Attended: East 14, 15 and West 16
Attending West 2019
Just a nerd into anything Nintendo, anime, MCU, Star Wars, and board games/card games.
Also a computer scientist and a streamer.
I follow three things now - all PAX related.
(Well maybe more, I may have followed stuff for booths, but I don't pay attention.)
The PAX dreams have begun for me.
I had a dream I was outside at work, carrying a box, when I got a tweet. It said that badges were already sold out, stop asking. And then I panicked because I never got the tweet saying they went on sale.
"The couple who plays together, stays together."
Also, I guess someone on Reddit found the prepped Showclix link for West 2016 tickets. Shows up blank of course but I'm not sure how far ahead those things get set up before ticket sales.
Attended: East 14, 15 and West 16
Attending West 2019
Tomorrow FOR SURE. :P
But the majority of PAX West is people from the Seattle area. Putting tickets on sale when they specifically can't buy them is something they might avoid. Especially since it would give the scalpers time to mobilize and be ready for the moment the power came back.
So I checked the site and it said how much time until PAX: 99 Days 23 Hrs 14 Mins 50 Secs
100 days remain.
The outage was in the heart of downtown Seattle only. I live 25 minutes away and my power has been fine.
from selenium import webdriver
import time
refreshrate = int(5)
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://west.paxsite.com/registration")
while True:
time.sleep(refreshrate)
driver.refresh()
don't take my F5 from me, if I'm not hitting F5 then what am I suppose to be going