Big Red/Disco, can you MAYBE give us a heads up as to what games/events we may need to install to participate in? I seem to remember last year there was a hiccup in that not enough people had the games to participate in the events...
UT3. Counter-Strike Source. There is always someone playing DOTA.
Two of the games from last year that not enough people had installed was Trackmania and Flatout:UC. Flatout is a fantastic racing game and I hope to see more people with it this year.
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Got my seat between Tajah and S7arbuck. I'm stoked.
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Also, just out of curiosity, why no email yet? I definitely checked the box asking to get one once BYOC went live and only through my genius friends knew of this right away.
Is one going out?
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Big Red/Disco, can you MAYBE give us a heads up as to what games/events we may need to install to participate in? I seem to remember last year there was a hiccup in that not enough people had the games to participate in the events...
A rundown of our planned byoc activities will go up before the event, probably between 4-6 weeks from now. The byoc activities are generally one of the last things we plan due to their casual nature.
A good idea is to bring stuff you like to play, but I remember a shit ton of TF2 last year.
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Got my seat between Tajah and S7arbuck. I'm stoked.
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Also, just out of curiosity, why no email yet? I definitely checked the box asking to get one once BYOC went live and only through my genius friends knew of this right away.
Is one going out?
Yeah, I never got it, either, not sure it went out.
Side note, was it really that hard to register? I didn't have an account and I got through it in about 5 minutes, easy. Maybe it's a test, like 'you must be this 1337 to enter!':winky:
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How the heck do I buy 3 tickets(myself and my two kids). It says the 2 ticket option is sold out. Will it let me purchase a single ticket three times?
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There's a cap of 2 byoc seats per account. This is probably something we'll remove next time around, but for now you'd need to create a second account.
Nah. It's tough to really compare (some of the conditions are different), but so far it's definitely going faster than last year.
As far as an email, it definitely hasn't gone out and it may not go out at all, depending on how fast the rest of the room sells out.
Gonna be a lot of ill will and hard feelings if you don't send the email before it sells out. Just sayin'.
i gotta agree with you. i consider myself reasonably hardcore, but i do retire from the forums each year for several months. i certainly appreciate being given a better chance to get in (as i already did, in a great spot!), but i would not discount bitching by someone taking time off from the forums who was counting on that email.
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Yay, I'm psyched about this! It'll be the first time doing BYOC for me
You better be sitting next to me.
Where are you Houn? There's like a sea of people
That whole lower three rows were taken by the time I signed up (it was super quick! ), so I signed up in row 4... but then there was only one seat there and one of the guys who's coming with me wanted in on the BYOC, so now I'm in row 5. =( Where are you at in there?
Anyone else having all kinds of problems registering? I have to use tricks just to log in. I paid using paypal and its still saying I owe. Also I can't even type comments in the support ticket so the admin is getting mad at me for opening new tickets. I'm about to give up.
Yay, I'm psyched about this! It'll be the first time doing BYOC for me
You better be sitting next to me.
Where are you Houn? There's like a sea of people
That whole lower three rows were taken by the time I signed up (it was super quick! ), so I signed up in row 4... but then there was only one seat there and one of the guys who's coming with me wanted in on the BYOC, so now I'm in row 5. =( Where are you at in there?
Youre sitting pretty close to me. Im the 4th seat in row 4.
Anyone else having all kinds of problems registering? I have to use tricks just to log in. I paid using paypal and its still saying I owe. Also I can't even type comments in the support ticket so the admin is getting mad at me for opening new tickets. I'm about to give up.
If you are still having problems, if you haven't already, shoot us an email at [email protected].
Anyone else having all kinds of problems registering? I have to use tricks just to log in. I paid using paypal and its still saying I owe. Also I can't even type comments in the support ticket so the admin is getting mad at me for opening new tickets. I'm about to give up.
If you are still having problems, if you haven't already, shoot us an email at [email protected].
The BYOC sounds really cool, but I suppose it's not something I should be doing my first year at PAX, right?
Also, I'm joining the CCST to get to Seattle and I don't think there's room in the car (or at the BYOC lol) for my 32" monitor/tv, heh.
You should DEFINITELY do BYOC!!! It's like having your own private PAX apartment. you get a little personal space (NO ONE can enter BYOC other than BYOCers). Period. So you won't get bothered. Also, BYOC is like a private party, like the VIP room, the Champagne room or at least the messy basement...
I probably spend maybe %15-25% of my time in BYOC, not a HUGE amount, but it's nice to have that space to chill during PAX and play games. Plus, it's good to let off some steam... by playing on steam... er... yeah.
The BYOC sounds really cool, but I suppose it's not something I should be doing my first year at PAX, right?
Also, I'm joining the CCST to get to Seattle and I don't think there's room in the car (or at the BYOC lol) for my 32" monitor/tv, heh.
You should definitely do the BYOC. I've done it every year at PAX. Like altmann said, it's like a private party. It's also very handy to have a place to put things, so you're not carrying swag around all day. And of course theres all the TF2.
Getting your setup here sounds like it would be the big problem.
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Man, I pretty much just use BYOC as a place to 1) access the internet and 2) dump my stuff, so I don't have to go back to my hotel room to do either of those things. Last year I just brought my laptop and it was fine.
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UT3. Counter-Strike Source. There is always someone playing DOTA.
Two of the games from last year that not enough people had installed was Trackmania and Flatout:UC. Flatout is a fantastic racing game and I hope to see more people with it this year.
"Read twice, post once. It's almost like 'measure twice, cut once' only with reading." - MetaverseNomad
EDIT:
Also, just out of curiosity, why no email yet? I definitely checked the box asking to get one once BYOC went live and only through my genius friends knew of this right away.
Is one going out?
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Yeah, I never got it, either, not sure it went out.
Side note, was it really that hard to register? I didn't have an account and I got through it in about 5 minutes, easy. Maybe it's a test, like 'you must be this 1337 to enter!':winky:
How does that compare to last year? Would last year already be sold out or what?
As far as an email, it definitely hasn't gone out and it may not go out at all, depending on how fast the rest of the room sells out.
You are cheating.
You said it wouldnt sell out within a week and now are haxing by not sending out the email so you arent proven wrong :P
I was going to be Gabe side, but I saw Tycho was... underrepresented. What can I say I'm a sucker for the underdog.
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You better be sitting next to me.
Gonna be a lot of ill will and hard feelings if you don't send the email before it sells out. Just sayin'.
The idea, though, is that the people who most want to get into byoc are here, so we give them first crack.
Then there's the people who are interested but haven't been following the forums counting down the days [ie, who would be getting an email].
Then there are the people who, if they happened to see it on the pa front page, would say "hey, I guess that sounds interesting".
And the % of people actually showing up drops with each group.
Miffed I didn't get an email but glad I checked up on this recently. Registered and paid
Where are you Houn? There's like a sea of people
That whole lower three rows were taken by the time I signed up (it was super quick!
Youre sitting pretty close to me. Im the 4th seat in row 4.
Sorry you're having problems!
Those who haven't yet should do so quickly, when I picked my seat about half the spots were gone. It's only been four days.
Also, I'm joining the CCST to get to Seattle and I don't think there's room in the car (or at the BYOC lol) for my 32" monitor/tv, heh.
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You should DEFINITELY do BYOC!!! It's like having your own private PAX apartment. you get a little personal space (NO ONE can enter BYOC other than BYOCers). Period. So you won't get bothered. Also, BYOC is like a private party, like the VIP room, the Champagne room or at least the messy basement...
I probably spend maybe %15-25% of my time in BYOC, not a HUGE amount, but it's nice to have that space to chill during PAX and play games. Plus, it's good to let off some steam... by playing on steam... er... yeah.
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You should definitely do the BYOC. I've done it every year at PAX. Like altmann said, it's like a private party. It's also very handy to have a place to put things, so you're not carrying swag around all day. And of course theres all the TF2.
Getting your setup here sounds like it would be the big problem.
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the LCD limit is 24" for space/power concerns