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PAX PRIME 2012 Information and FAQ (READ THIS FIRST, THEN ASK ALL QUESTIONS HERE)
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I've noticed most people seem to come between 7-8.
well the doors open at 8, but it is essentially up to you if you want to wait in the queue room (not saying it's a bad thing)
I'd still like to know how early I should wait for the Razer panel... was it really popular the previous years?
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On Friday morning do you have to go to the Hyatt first and register before you go to the Red Lion to register for a tabletop tournament, or can you go directly to the Red Lion (assuming you already received your badge in the mail)? Thanks.
If you've got your badge, generally you is done. I've only ever gone to registration--I preorder, it gets mailed, etc--when I discover I need a lanyard or something.
1) When will PAX Prime and PAX East be in 2013?
2) When do passes for either go on sale? (or as crucially how do you learn when they go on sale - in time to actually successfully order a pass?) In past years I seem to always hear about PAX passes AFTER they have completely sold out (or only day passes remain - which doesn't help me as if I'm going to fly across the country for PAX East I really would want to attend every day)
Clearly 1000's of people have figured out how to get passes year after year - but how does someone who has never gone get a pass and actually go? (and then once you have a pass get a hotel room etc)? The FAQs as best I can tell don't really address this.
Thanks, sorry for the truly newbie question and those of you at PAX Prime this weekend have fun.
Shannon
So this isn't a "customer service" forum (as in, most of the people that post here don't control the show). There already is streaming though of many things. Head to http://twitch.tv to find them
Goody\Swag bags are handed out every day after 11:30 in the Queue room, room 4A, entrance is in the 4th floor south lobby across from the Merch Booth.
The Queue room line waits until 10am when the hall opens, and then as long as it takes to file everyone inside. If you get there at 8am, thats 2+ hours, if you get there at 9:45am, thats 15+ minutes. If you get there at 10:30am you walk right in. Queue room is only necessary if you want to be one of the first 5000ish people into the expo hall in the morning.
There are 24\7 parking options. 7th & Pike garage right across the street and next to the Cheescake Factory is probably the closest.
East was only Easter weekend last year, and thats just the way the schedule worked out. Its not something that is likely to happen again soon. Prime is indeed Labor Day for the next several years though.
Passes for East usually go on sale a few weeks after Prime. The best way to find out when passes go on sale is probably to follow the official PA twitter and\or keep an eye on these forums. If day passes remain you can certainly buy one for each day, many people do this.
Hotel registrations don't fill up nearly as fast as passes (if they do at all), the hotel link on paxsite.com would be the place for that.
im from Germany and i decided to visit America next year. I always wanted to visit a Pax but yet i dont know which one I should visit. I'm going there especially to play new games, the cosplays and LoL gaming and tournaments. What do you think, will be East or Prime better? I read that Prime has more Games in offer and huge LoL Tournaments and East is more Tabletop, which Im not interested in. Is that true or will there be a bigger Expo Hall 2013? I really don't know a lot about Pax, would be nice if you could answer my questions and help me with that problem
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I looked at the maps of East and Prime and saw that there is a lot of room for expansions in Boston.
But will they expand the Expo Hall 2013? Is there anything you know about this?
And another point: Is it true that Pax Prime 2013 will last 4 days?
PAX Prime 2013 will indeed be 4 days (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon). No other details on that yet.
They will likely expand the Expo Hall for East 2013, but it's an unknown at the moment. As you say there is plenty of room at the moment, and Boston and PAX said they'd like to have the show grow steadily over the next few years.
I am really sorry if there is some super-obvious way for me to get this info that I'm missing - this was my first PAX. A buddy of mine picked up a few things at a room in the tabletop area where some very friendly people were leading games of Fiasco, Mouse Guard, etc. There was a small retail area set up to retail those games and some other stuff (sculptures and shirts and such).
Anyway, one of my friend's purchases ended up being a box with a display stand and no actual merchandise due to an honest mistake, and he'd like to get in touch with someone to see if he can remedy. (I am purposefully not saying what "it" was in case we need to do an "Identify the item and I'll ship it to you" thing.) I haven't been able to google-fu up anything on that little micro-retail-stand place or who was operating it. If anyone can give me any information, that would be fantastic... even some more specific details about what floor/room # that area was so that I can search more effectively. None of us have our programs anymore.
Thanks, and sorry again if this is a terrible dumb question to be asking. The thing was not particularly cheap, and was something he was really keen on having.
There should be a full exhibitor guide in the guidebook guide for PAX.
People like Burning Wheel were present at the con, but the people at their booth didn't appear to have any knowledge that people were selling Mouseguard downstairs, so I assume they were unaffiliated. This was a room nestled in the tabletop freeplay areas that did have a small cardboard "kissing booth" type desk outside to inform people of what games were currently being demo'd.
Thanks!
And the Pax Retro Shirt, which I cannot find a picture of reliably. It was in the likeness of an Artai boxart, depicting the main escalator bank of the WSTCC. This description is not doing it justice.
Edit: The other shirt just said PRIME with a bunch of gaming shit mixed into the wording, sadly I don't have a picture though.
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That one is exclusive to Prime, but not to 2012. I bought mine either last year or the year before.
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I have 9 of the scarves and I know for sure Im missing sackboy. Were there a total of 10 or 12 of these?
To my knowledge Sony passed out these ones:
Raiden
Big Daddy
Sly
Ratchet
Fat Princess
Drake
Kratos
Parappa
Nariko
Sackboy
are there any others that Im unaccounted for?
Thanks.
So: did anyone who went through the line for Sona skins actually get theirs?
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It's very likely that it was a PAX exclusive.