the PAX forum or here is where I've gotten mine the past few years. Lots of people will have extras a week or so before the event.
Albeit at a reasonable price no? I don't think I can afford another leg & a half I paid for tickets last year.
the PAX forum or here is where I've gotten mine the past few years. Lots of people will have extras a week or so before the event.
Smart international attendees spring for the shipping!
You'll be fine. I got mine shipped this year so I could distribute to friends if I end up not going. So far it's looking like I'll probably go for the first two days but $27 / 4 isn't too much at least.Why is that? I thought I'd rather wait the lines at the Will call rather than paying the shipping costs, but perhaps I was too naive (it's my first PAX Prime) and the lines are several hours long?
I logged on to the website not 15 minutes after the tickets went on sale. All I could get was a Monday pass.For those of you complaining and thinking about next year, here's the way I'd approach things:
Pay attention to Paxsite.com. As soon as it begins to redirect to the Prime site instead of East, you know ticket sales are close by.
Pay attention to the official PAX twitter feed. It will tend to come to life somewhere between a few days ahead of time to a week.
Finally, tickets sales appear to generally be happening on a Wednesday around 10 or 11 a.m. PDT.
So if Paxsite gets updated to point to Prime on a Monday, I'd be ready to be at a computer around that time on that Wednesday.
I logged on to the website not 15 minutes after the tickets went on sale. All I could get was a Monday pass.
What they have in palce is a horrible system.
15 was too late, I was in 30 seconds after and 4days were already sold out. PAX Prime is huge, I know I spent 3 weeks F5ing hard every single day at 10am. If you're not as dedicated, you're going to lose tickets to people who are.
Dedication is the wrong word to use here.
Some people have dayjobs where they can't access computers, not to mention shoddy cell phone service...
I honestly didn't know they were on sale until about 5-10 minutes after. Sucked.
Didn't acquire any. Still going
15 was too late, I was in 30 seconds after and 4days were already sold out. PAX Prime is huge, I know I spent 3 weeks F5ing hard every single day at 10am. If you're not as dedicated, you're going to lose tickets to people who are.
The issue is that while "The most dedicated fans get the best tickets" is a noble concept, it ultimately results in the most dedicated individuals being scalpers. Fans were able to figure out when the tickets were going to go live before the announcement tweet went out - it's safe to suspect somebody with a profit motivation got in as well, and took advantage of the system.
I know this is the case, and I should lighten up about it, but it's not realistic for anyone who's traveling to a)book time off from work, of what little vacation time i have, months in advance b)buy tickets, hotel all in advance of such date and then c)pray that someone release some tickets weeks beforehand. I would be more than happy to commit to doing all of that KNOWING I can actually get in, not wait till a week in advance, and the only way to confirm it now is just pay someone who bought extra to scalp. Thanks, but no thanks.Lots of people will have extras a week or so before the event.
I spent 20 minutes on CL getting what I needed for PAX at PAX (Had to trade for days). Not a problem.I know this is the case, and I should lighten up about it, but it's not realistic for anyone who's traveling to a)book time off from work, of what little vacation time i have, months in advance b)buy tickets, hotel all in advance of such date and then c)pray that someone release some tickets weeks beforehand. I would be more than happy to commit to doing all of that KNOWING I can actually get in, not wait till a week in advance, and the only way to confirm it now is just pay someone who bought extra to scalp. Thanks, but no thanks.
Post a query here in this thread.
I immediately got a couple of responses; one was at face value, the other a reasonable markup.
A fraction of what I'd have paid on E-bay.
15 was too late, I was in 30 seconds after and 4days were already sold out. PAX Prime is huge, I know I spent 3 weeks F5ing hard every single day at 10am. If you're not as dedicated, you're going to lose tickets to people who are.
That's really stupid reasoning. People have lives they can't be sitting at a computer 24/7 hoping to purchase tickets to somewhere. Plus, I've never been, and I'd really like to go. Sometimes it's not just a question of dedication.
the PAX forum or here is where I've gotten mine the past few years. Lots of people will have extras a week or so before the event.
IF anyone has any extras, please send me a PM. I am not sure of the etiquette here so I don't want to violate any thread rules.
STORYTIME AND CONCERT LINEUP!
We are excited to announce that for our PAX Prime 2014 Storytime Session we have the extremely talented Chief Creative Champion from Gearbox Software, Mikey Neumann. Mikey has worked at Gearbox for 13 years and has written for many of their games, most notably the Borderlands franchise. Mikey spends his free time writing novels, comics with IDW Publishing, and doing a comedy podcast with Kris Straub called Chainsawsuit.
In addition to Mikey starting things off this year, we also have some top tier musical stylings to announce. Friday night will feature three great bands in Triforce Quartet, The Doubleclicks, and Paul & Storm. Saturday will feature a special live event, and then Sunday keeps it all rolling with the amazing MC Frontalot, Bit Brigade, and 7bit Hero all coming to deliver awesome tunes. Check them out here.
F (&$!
They had "reclaimed" passes on sale and I just missed it!
Likewise. Either I set up Twitter notifications incorrectly or they don't function the way I expect.F (&$!
They had "reclaimed" passes on sale and I just missed it!
Ugh, same. Bad time to go to the bathroom, I guess.
Still looking for a Saturday pass, if anyone has an extra.
Likewise. Either I set up Twitter notifications incorrectly or they don't function the way I expect.
Their's a Sounders game on Saturday you can go to instead if you don't end up getting a Saturday pass.
Hopefully a few more gaffers ended up getting passes today.
I got a text message immediately when I set them up for the original onsale.
Panels should be announced soon AVGN posted when his movie screening and panel were. Movie is in the "sphinx" theater and the panel is in the "sasquach" theater. I'd hope after 4 years I'd no my way around but nope, they keep moving/renaming theaters so I have to pull up the map every constantly to figure out where I'm going.
My passes arrived in the mail!
Really look forward to seeing you again, Krae!
So hey all, I'm Gil and a proud local here in Seattle. Been attending PAX since it's inception out in Bellevue here and have enjoyed each and every outing. Dig meeting new people and discovering new current and future gaming projects, be it video gaming, tabletop or other mediums.
Two big things I want to give a shout out about:
1) I look forward to our annual and semi-official GAF meetup! Has this been organized yet? If not, I'd be happy to take the reigns of this again or team up with Luckyboy.
2) I'm looking to host a super-rad tabletop night on one or a couple of evenings. Traditionally, I close out each of my days at PAX at the Olive 8 Hyatt Gaming Lounges or somewhere nearby--playing tabletop games I generally bring from home or new hotness I've recently bought. I may, if space allows it, host one or more of these up at the Raygun Lounge (nearby tabletop cafe on Capitol Hill) or even at my place (further up the hill, still fairly close). This would all depend on interest and timing. But if there are any of you guys wanting to rock some dice and zombie miniatures (or more), I'm your guy!
Anyways and as always, looking forward to PAX once again and hoping to meet (or catch up with) as many of you as possible.
What confuses me about PAX passes is that they put a hard limit on media badges. I've been going to E3 for over a decade and TGS a few times as well. This is the first gaming event that I've seen limit passes to media. I'm still going to email to see if I can get in as I have coverage of the event to do, but I was pretty surprised to see media badges "over capacity".