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PAX Austin? (South?)
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Huh. I wonder if this will be one of the stretch goals as the Kickstarter approaches $1m.
Not sure how I feel about this. I guess I'd hope that 3 PAXen wouldn't stretch the guys and the community too thin.
Huh. I wonder if this will be one of the stretch goals as the Kickstarter approaches $1m.
Not sure how I feel about this. I guess I'd hope that 3 PAXen wouldn't stretch the guys and the community too thin.
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That aside, I'd love an Austin PAX, seeing as my brother now lives there and can't make it up to PAXPrime. Not sure where they'd fit it into the calendar though. Mid-winter?
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BTW, PAX "South" in Late January, East in Late April/Early May and Prime in Late September would be baller.
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To have PAX in the UK would be amazing, and out of the 3 major cities, Manchester is a massive air transport hub, the event venues are central, surrounded by hotels, bars, clubs, restaurants/cafes and shopping. It would be just perfect. We need to share PAX with the rest of the world, starting with Manchester!
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So let's assume a 3rd pax in the US, and let's assume it's centrally located (i.e. not costal.) Austin would seem to fit this bill.
I disagree with Zerzhul's prediction above though (unless I'm misreading it.) The Paxes (Paxi? Paxen?) are fairly evenly spaced already (roughly 6 months apart give or take a month.) I suspect we'd see a shift to keep them roughly equadistant. Given weather patterns I wouldn't make Austin a summer PAX, so maybe shift Seattle up to July/August Timeframe, Move Central pax (presumed in Austin for this hypothetical) to the winter time (Jan/Feb) and shift East a few weeks down to late April/May. This makes them fairly equadistant (allowing for the best planning time) and is weather happy for each location.
Again, all hypotheticals.
This would make Austin somewhat like the "Covention center of the world" though, the article mentions the 2 gaming conventions but misses SxSW which is huge! Certianly that'd play with scheduling as well.
Yes, this is exactly what I meant. Except instead of pulling Prime back to July, I would push East into May, either way, allowing a winter Austin PAX.
Hopefully someone gets them to clarify this information soon.
If you watch the video from the Mike & Jerry Comic-Con panel, at the 54:30 mark (the last question) it is strongly implied that the first international PAX would be in Melbourne, Australia.
The Q&A about Austin was just after the 40:00 mark.
Made me giggle toward the end.
I would be very excited to see PAX head to Austin. It's a place I've always wanted to visit so this would just give me one more reason to go. :^:
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Well there goes my idea.
Often contracts for events that far out have wiggle room on dates. You are more contracting to do it there that year, then the actual date chosen. But Labor day is a good weekend, and I believe Robert has stated one of the reasons they chose it is hotel prices are quite good. If they are ultimately working towards 4 PAX's (adding a south and international?) then leaving Prime at East at their current time slots makes sense.
I would guess we will hear more either very soon (if the news was about to break anyway) or after Prime, as they usually seem to concentrate on one PAX at a time.
I wonder sometimes, If Mike occasionally asks Robert "can I say anything" just to troll us. Even if there is no big secret, he just might want to start rumors.
I'm certain there is some truth to this
So the next logical place would be Australia, as many antipodeans do travel to Prime so I wouldn't be surprised for it to surface there.
SXSW is more of a general tech convention (competes with the music and film crowds too) and RTX was much more YouTube/web culture driven than I expected it to be. I think pax would fill the role of video game convention nicely.