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Forget_Byron
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Hello I am new to this convention. Is there a date set for when the event schedule will be posted? It's difficult for me to justify attending a convention that doesn't have their events listed...
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It's almost here !
Also, yeah, just youtube search PAX07 for some footage of different aspects of last year.
Actually, wouldn't that be called "Gen Con Indy?" :P
That's a good one. Oh man, I think I'm tearing up from that one.
The company that puts on the Gen Cons went bankrupt. Aside from that, I've heard it's more about celebrating games, and not gamers, and *checks the website* they have a smaller attendance rate. I'm not sure I'd want to go to that one, anyway. None of their events are listed on the site. :P
There isnt a rolling eyes smiley or else I would have put that on here at least 3 times.
*Rolls eyes*
Zing!
But yeah, I don't think I'm going to live to see a higher epitome of gamer culture than two people finishing a three day elimination tournament by playing Combat on an Atari 2600 for a prize that includes every NES game ever made.
Especially that comeback in round 4. Holy hell that was tense.
Well they filed Chapter 11, that's not exactly the same thing as going bankrupt. It's more of a U.S. corporate protection statute under the bankruptcy laws.
Bankruptcy in corporate America doesn't mean "I got no money" the way it might if you or me or the guy down the street filed bankruptcy.
The numbers even provide evidence, because PAX has doubled in size each year since 2004.
Even Dragon Con in Atlanta has more info about their plans than this does.
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Forgive me for being a bit snide but your attitude needs a bit of adjusting... I for one love when people call my home the "ass-end of the country". PAX works just fine the way it works now... it's not all about the schedule.
But the schedule generally consists of insider panels, demonstations, Q&A sessions (both PA & industry), trivia contests and a whole lot more. Then you have scheduled tournaments (video & table top gaming)... you have console freeplay areas that are open most the day where you can go play pretty much any console... there's the PC area where you can setup your own computer (if you register for it) and play there during breaks... there's the expo hall which has previews, demos, contests, merchandise and a whole lot more.
But like I said... it's not all about the schedule. I usually hit up the PA panels, and maybe 2 or 3 other panels only. The rest is gaming, in tournaments, freeplay, on a tabletop with my friends or just wandering around meeting people and playing with them. It rocks.
So you say this eventhough gencon doesnt have a schedule and is closer than pax?
I take it you go to gencon from your attitude?
I am inclined to agree. More extreme weather, the cities are pretty dirty, and I can think of a TON more cities I would like to visit rather than Indiana :P
Sorry for sounding like a troll, Indy is pretty far from me, too. But at least airplane isn't the only way for the majority population to reach it.
It just strikes me odd that a show like this that's in a relatively remote part of the country so far away from everything else that you have to fly to get there would want to do more to encourage people to sign up earlier.
Some of my very obvious frustration is that I recently stumbled onto something about this convention that makes me very, very angry, and the lack of a event schedule release only serves to exacerbate that rage.
I think when the schedule is released there are going to be a lot of pissed off people from my neck of the gaming woods.
Just out of morbid curiosity what did you stumble upon that you are angry about?
Well I guess if you live in the far northwest driving is an option, but when it's a 36-hour drive one way straight through that's out of the question.
You fail to understand why because I didn't say why and it's not really my place to say so either. I'm not even sure if it's true yet. When the schedule is released, then I will know for sure.
Wow... such negativity Sir.... and over rumors you won't even name? Personally to me it sounds as if you have both anger management and gossiping problems. But such things should never keep you from the awesome glory that is PAX!
PAX is really what you make of it, and besides, I'm sure they are still scrambling to get the schedule down. PAX is still a few months out, there are probably all sorts of revisions being made to the schedule prior to them posting it. PAX has been a complete success since it started, and each year it gets bigger and better.
It is worth it in every way to come, and as Moe as said there are plenty of people coming from all over the country who aren't flying in. But to base a decision that it sucks off of something you don't even know? Yeah...the only way you're gonna figure it out is if you show up.
LAST YEAR'S PAX SCHEDULE (*.PDF format)
If it wasn't your place to say, then you shouldn't have said anything. It's just bullshit FUD spreading otherwise, which is worse in my opinion.
What schedule? I just searched the GenCon Indy site and saw nothing for this year.
Like Moe said, check out the CCST, also the West Coast Train Trip, and the Canadian SuperTrip. You talk like PAX is being held in Hawaii or something.
Remote part of the country, I can TOTALLY agree. Seattle is so remote, and it isn't sitting on an interstate highway that stretches the entire west coast. It isn't home to Microsoft. It doesn't have campuses for Google, PayPal, Nintendo, DigiPen, and various indie game developers. No one here knows about popular music, it's not like Seattle has ever produced any decent bands. I doubt this city would ever be considered for a World's Fair. It's not even home to Penny Arcade. You know how hard it is to get decent internet out here? We're so far out in the boonies we shoot all our own food and trade beads with the natives. My horse broke his leg the other day so I had to put him down and walk to work.
You're obviously frustrated about something that might not even be true. Perhaps you can tell us what you heard? Someone here might have an answer so you can sleep at night. What will Penny Arcade do that can potentially piss off so many people?
Where are you, anyway? I'm curious to know why you're so frustrated about flying to the ass end of the country (nothing's out here of interest, so airfare must be cheap) when you don't even have to go through customs.
I find it extremely rude to come into a forum about a specific event in a specific city, insult the city, announce your hypocritical reasons for not wanting to attend the event, and then say you are pissed at the event for something that may or may not be true. Seriously, we are trying to help you out. If you don't want your questions answered, don't mention them in the first place.
/rant
*looks back thru the thread* I always considered "filing for bankruptcy" to be the same thing as "going bankrupt," even on a corporate scale.
So, Do you have something to share?
PAX is located in a very convenient location- there are gobs of game companies in the NW that would not be able to make it to something further away. There has been endless discussion on having PAX elsewhere, and it keeps boiling down to Seattle being the best place to have it.
Also, what is your neck of the woods?
(sorry for feeding the troll)
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/community/gaming/4thEdition/potentialGenConBombshellWOTCMightNotAttend&page=1
If they are coming here with all of their events, well they should have announced that so that those of us who have to fly to get there could have planned for that BEFORE booking a room in Indy. :x
My intention here originally was just to ask about the schedule of events and when it would be up so I could confirm some of the plans, but wow, mid-July? WTF, I don't know how many people can really just up and reorganize their lives to attend a spur-of-the-moment event like this, particularly those of us who live on the other side of the country and had no advance notice of where we should go to participate in the events we thought would be at GenCon. ("Spur-of-the-moment" from the vantage point of people who were deceived and mislead, not necessarily those who were within a short driving distance from the convention and/or planned to attend anyway.)
But Qs23's archive should at least give you a general idea if not specific to this year. Most of the things carry over directly if not analogously.
Here's the GenCon event schedule. If you click on GenCon Indy and go to Attendees, then events, it tells you that the most recent events schedule is on the Community site, click there and with a few more clicks you get here.
http://community.gencon.com/files/24/default.aspx
There's nothing pretty about it, it's just a spreadsheet with ~4900 rows at this point, but with all of the relevant information (one row per "event")...though, some events are held multiple times.
Wow... that is one crazy detailed schedule. And if Forget_Byron is looking specifically for the tabletop schedule, that's separate from the main schedule (such as Qs23's archive). I don't know if anybody has last year's tabletop schedule.
Indiana's a city now?
o_O
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While I am bewildered, I am still somewhat impressed by your abilty to conjure up such hatred.
Dude, just buy a goddam ticket and focus that rage into the Omegathon, you'll definately go home a winner.
EDIT: And don't fly. Either take the train, or drive with Moe Fwacky's caravan.
EDIT EDIT: Actually, don't drive either, Im sure the CCST dosent appreciate road rage!