Looking at my notebook and seeing in February plane tickets were $500 cheaper than they currently are hurts. I told my guy that next time, we'll just go to Seattle for a week, with or without badges.
I'm super excited for PAX Prime this year. I've already got vacation days booked at work (I work at Amazon) and I live a short train ride away from the convention center. GET HOIPE!
From the contest tweet, I'm feeling confident on badges going on sale on June 7th, as they did a similar facebook contest for Unplugged on the 3rd, and unplugged tickets went on sale two weeks later.
Two weeks from today is the 7th of June, which also lines up with sales from the past few years.
I'm now wavering on my original guess being too late. I get the feeling that it might happen on a Tuesday this year though. My logic being that maybe the Pax folks think it's too dialed into a Thursday release formula?
Why is there such a feeling for Thursday? I too have Thursday feels, but I don't know why - it just feels like the right day. Last year was Thursday, true... But the year before that was a Tuesday.
Dumb question but I've always been lucky enough to be near a computer when tickets have gone on sale, does the queue line work appropriately on a phone ? If your screen turns off or if you minimize does it mess up the queue? I'm worried I'll be out and only be able to purchase from my phone.
I've been thinking long and hard about this, and I think I'm out for this year. Seattle is getting so expensive(Flights alone jumped up $300) and fewer and fewer of my friends get tickets each passing year.
After going 7 years in a row, I want to use my vacation money on something different. Now if only I can figure out what that different thing is.
Still in for jumping in the queue. Gotta keep my skills up in case I decide to go in the future.
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Ready for today just in case but still think badges will drop next Thursday. Got my plane tickets yesterday. Bummed there is no longer a direct flight from Colo Springs, so have to trek to DIA to find a reasonable price. $623 for two of us, not too bad I guess. This will be the fifth PAX Prime/West in a row for my son and I. He just graduated from HS and wanted a full four days at PAX as his "senior trip." We usually just stay for Fri-Sun so looking forward to seeing what the floor is like on Monday (hopefully less crowded). Might be our last time here together, feel like I am getting too old for the crowd and types of games featured.
PAX Prime 14, 15
PAX West 16, 17
My Rig: I7 7700K, Aorus K5, 32GB RipJaws V, Samsung 960 PCIe 256 & 500, Zotac 1080Ti
I imagine Mondays are going to be busier than they've been in the past. Last year's low sell time meant more people getting badges that actually want it rather than the "may as well grab all days" people. Though I do confess I cannot recall if this was actually the case...
Does anybody else open twitter on their browser and see the line "is officially on sale!" before reading Unplugged? Causing a mini-panic that my notifications didn't go off.
I hope it doesn't happen on the 5th during my apartment inspection... I won't have internet, besides data. Maybe the sales will happen while I'm at work, like last year, haha! ;u;
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I predict 7 June at 1500ET/1300MT/1200PT
PAX West 16, 17
My Rig: I7 7700K, Aorus K5, 32GB RipJaws V, Samsung 960 PCIe 256 & 500, Zotac 1080Ti
I deferred mine from June 5th to January 28th, just in case of PAX!
"Brilliant! Oh wait, if we were meant to fly, we would have been born with little bags of nuts."
Doesn't E3 start that day, though? I wish they'd just wait until after E3 since they've released badges right before the past few years.
Twitter. Set notifications for @PAX_Badges.
https://github.com/SunnyBat/PAXChecker also works on Mac as it uses the Java runtime, but honestly Twitter works fine.
So it does. Very well, I shall amend my prediction to accommodate this new information.
"Brilliant! Oh wait, if we were meant to fly, we would have been born with little bags of nuts."
(Where’s Domino when you need her...)
Two weeks from today is the 7th of June, which also lines up with sales from the past few years.
The only problem is that PAXChecker doesn't look at @PAX_Badges just @Official_PAX. Still good for the registration page and Showclix I guess though.
PAX PRIME 2018 Status: Badges [√] Room [√] Waiting [ :x ]
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Sure it does. A commit was made by SunnyBat 8 months ago that added PAX_Badges. But I'm not sure if the build in the dropbox has the latest code.
My guess for this year would be June 9th?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KXHdgnv_RzFAPI8dW4YL1iTp50oLeJsrinu7YEvjpFQ/edit?usp=sharing
Or is there?
:P
SIR
PAX. PAX. PAX. Boom.
I still expect badges next week.
I also wonder if we'll be getting the pax badge merch email as a precursor again?
Wouldn't that be nice if they did?
After going 7 years in a row, I want to use my vacation money on something different. Now if only I can figure out what that different thing is.
Still in for jumping in the queue. Gotta keep my skills up in case I decide to go in the future.
PAX West 16, 17
My Rig: I7 7700K, Aorus K5, 32GB RipJaws V, Samsung 960 PCIe 256 & 500, Zotac 1080Ti
Does anybody else open twitter on their browser and see the line "is officially on sale!" before reading Unplugged? Causing a mini-panic that my notifications didn't go off.
https://www.showclix.com/event/jwkywhan13/
Edit: BYOC link:
https://www.showclix.com/event/byocpaxwest18/pre-sale
And we are live!