Pax Prime 2012 Sold Out!
Mr. Polar Bear is dumbfounded. Why, you might ask?
Pax Prime 2012 is sold out. You read that right: sold freakin' out. After experiencing problems with a new registration vendor, paxsite.com put a temporary stop on all incoming pass purchases. A week or so later (yesterday, May 2 to be exact), registration was re-opened...with all 3-day passes selling out in not even half a day's time. To salt that wound, ALL passes -- even 1-day only -- were scooped up and no longer available as of May 3.
Sadly, that's only the half of it. While we'd like to imagine for a second that this was simply the result of anxious, giddy gamers being forced to wait a week to sign up, that's not entirely the case. Scalpers galore have plagued eBay with numerous listings for the coveted passes, fetching absolutely ridiculous prices that no gaming enthusiast should have to pay.
Shameful, just shameful.
Nobody should have to shell out this kind of cash to these asshats.
The folks at paxsite.com seem to be equally bewildered by this lightning-fast sellout. Unfortunately, despite knowing that this blitz was partially due to preying scalpers, they cannot offer any additional passes due to fire code restrictions.
» Source: http://prime.paxsite.com/
» Tagged In: #2012, #Asshats, #community showcase, #Passes, #PAX, #PAX Prime, #Penny Arcade Expo, #Scalpers
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Killer_Brian_Number5
Man that sucks, at first I was planning to grab my tickets after work but I had a hunch they were going out fast, luckily booked everything moment registration went back up. Positive note though...one of my co workers was planning to scalp a few passes, but hopefully I truly convinced him other wise. But man it sucks...hopefully they can find a way to at least minimize the amount of scalpers next year
Board_games_r_evil
not really surprising scalpers are cashing in on this, just goes to show if you really wanted to be there you gotta beat the scalpers, anything this big is bound to have some shady and undesirable activities floating around
JustAnotherGamer
I was pretty surprised when I heard on Twitter that all the 3 day pass sold out. I quickly got myself all 3 day single passes! For sure I'm going to PAX Prime! I went to PAX East and there's no way I'm not going to Prime! Also those internet scalpers are just asses and are just there to make a quick buck off us. What's next, hotel scalping...
Dakomissar
Well, if it makes anyone else feel better, know that I got a 3-day pass, and I fully intend to go instead of scalping it away. Internet scalpers generally are A-holes.
Hawk Goggles
You know, not all scalpers are bad. I you go to a sports game during the regular season, you can get a really good deal. But internet scalpers can just go suck it.