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PAX Prime 2014 Thread: Meet-up details in OP
- Thread starter krae_man
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Actually. I wouldn't mind that thread title chance
Or just make it "Official PAX Prime 2014 thread. and I'll update it with hotel info, panel info etc when the time comes.
mentalward
Member
Friend managed to snag Fri-Sun tickets for me. I was in the queue and was only able to get Friday and Monday tix for a friend. Can't believe they sold out entirely in under an hour. Insanity.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Glad I checked my phone randomly when I did... I was out for a walk over my lunch break and just decided to check my phone randomly and saw the tweet had gone out 3 minutes before I checked. Talk about luck.
Now to save a grand or so to pay off everything before the trip.
Now to save a grand or so to pay off everything before the trip.
I clicked the Showclix link within ten seconds of the announcement tweet, and for a good half minute or so, it simply displayed a "this event isn't live yet" page.
Even if they managed to figure out the event page, the badges wouldn't have been available until just after the tweet went out.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Damn, was hoping to finally go this year.
Once my turn in the queue came up only Friday and Monday were left.
Pass on that.
Once my turn in the queue came up only Friday and Monday were left.
Pass on that.
ProfessorLobo
Banned
Good god.
I know. Free shipping! What a deal!
1 sold!
link1201
Member
So what's the mark up? I have no idea what pax badges cost I have never been.
4 day passes are 110 dollars
link1201
Member
I guess I knew it would be stupid...but damn. lol that sucks. Thanks for the info.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Most of the crowds are in panels or the show floor. Free play is basically empty all day.
Aztechnology
Member
Last year I paid 250 per set of 4 days, I expect to pay roughly the same this year. Still worth it. Just have to wait a month or so to buy the tickets, as right now all the scalpers are trying to ride the initial hype. They will drop, or maybe someone will sell on reddit/gaf for lower. Just wait, I am.
Aztechnology
Member
I'm, with you man. I was in the que at 10:30 and all that was left were monday tickets. I'm going to wait two weeks or so then try again on ebay. Thankfully since the listings are closer to the event this year, if we buy in June, we should be able to get our money back if we receive fakes. But I've gone the past two years off of ebay tickets and they've been legit.
Aztechnology
Member
It gets so much grief because Prime is the only event where working people or people not constantly tethered to technology get completely screwed on tickets. They just put up sales whenever they feel like it, so people with schedules are out of luck.
PAX gets grief because it's the only convention that's specifically antagonistic to their base in order for their base to participate in the convention. They prefer a spectacle over actually not treating fans like shit.
Dental Plan
Member
Wait to buy tickets once the event gets closer. They will become cheaper. The only thing you'd have to worry about is lodging though.
In what sense are they being purposefully antagonistic for spectacle? You know that the venue has capacity limits and must abide by fire code by law, right?
I like how people are whining that it's "all about the money" when they could easily charge 2x the price to help slow ticket sales and still sell out.
Same thing I did and worked out for me. Had to enter the queue on my phone as I was on my way to work.
The way they sell tickets, with limp wristed anti botting tech. The way they still do surprise announcements, when they could tell people a time so they could schedule and get ready. The way they make some big deal about how they actually didn't get botted, when there's reams of proof on the internet of people buying tons of passes and basically making three times their money back.
I'm not talking about ticket amounts or capacity. I'm talking about the fact that when you actually go to PAX, you see some fucker standing there on DAY 1 at OPENING with a giant stack of passes he's selling.
So like literally every popular event in history? Do you have an example of a scalper-proof method of selling event tickets? Also, none of what you mentioned is evidence of the PAX organizers trying to antagonize its fans for spectacle.
If they announced well ahead of time it would just be that many more people in the queue, sell out that much faster. I've been unable to get tickets to big events on the very SECOND they went on sale.. Radiohead playing the Key Arena last year comes to mind. All the good seats were gone in moments.. and that's via Ticketmaster, with a lot more money behind their code.
Seems like a pro/con sort of thing.. and really, "proof" that they were botted?
You don't really need a bot to get quite a few tickets.. people who scalp a lot of stuff have their resources. I know someone who owns an entire company that scalps tickets to all kinds of venues, and he has his ways.. I don't find it remotely ethical though. Either way.. not really any event ever that is in demand that doesn't get a huge portion of tickets purchased by scalpers.
That solution would make it even more difficult to get a pass. You would probably get twice or even three times the amount of people logging on at the same time. Same with the suggestion I read every year where they could spread the sale of passes over several days. You'll just get a repeat of today's disappointment happening over and over and over.
Glad you're making it out again.
soulstoner
Banned
Some events are credit card scan entry only. Meaning you can't sell your tickets to someone else unless you give them your credit card to swipe as well.
ProfessorLobo
Banned
The more obvious thing they could do is tie each ticket to a name.
Do you have an example of an event with 70k+ people going to it that sells tickets this way?
Let's say they do this. How would that slow down scalping unless you had to show your ID upon entry? Again, we're talking about a 70k+ person event with lots of kids.
That would be a nightmare at the venue.. there are numerous entrances, and there are already large "lines" that form just to get through the checkpoint bottlenecks. If they did some sort of will call it would be an incredibly large clusterfuck.
The other obvious thing is for people to just understand that tickets sell out.. and that scalping is a big reality of going to any and all events these days. Why people single out PAX is beyond me, but perhaps people are inexperienced with ticket buying in general?
ab.aeterno
Member
Dumb question, but how do I set a text alert for tweets in the future? I'm using the stock Twitter app on Android.
The few instructions I could find when I looked a couple weeks ago referenced options i couldn't find, as they were outdated.
They actually offered one 4 day pass to Club PA members this time around. Which is fine I guess. Now they're going to get a ton of Club PA subscriptions in hopes of a repeat and they'll be damned if they do, damned if they don't next year.
In the end they said "We are not going to tell you when, here's what you need to pay attention to" and people that did got tickets.
Still the seemingly total lack of bot prevention is strange.
In the end they said "We are not going to tell you when, here's what you need to pay attention to" and people that did got tickets.
Still the seemingly total lack of bot prevention is strange.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
When can international buyers pick up their tickets? A few days before?
I guess they could've added Captcha the way Ticketmaster does, but does that really stop scalpers?
I guess they could've added Captcha the way Ticketmaster does, but does that really stop scalpers?
Anything is better then not even trying.
As for pick up times, they usually get announced later but international people should probably spring for the shipping option.
Why not limit the amount of tickets per address/person? Lets say a total of 2 per day basically stopping a number of scalpers from ordering 4+ per day and selling later.
Exactly
