PAX Prime Charges Record Price; Sells Out Nearly Immediately

May 8, 2015

The premiere gaming convention in the Northwestern U.S. is easily PAX Prime – in fact it may be claimed it’s the premiere convention anywhere, in the eyes of video gamers – and tickets for the August 2015 event went on sale yesterday. While the net buzzed with complaints of a four day pass no longer being made available, as well as an increase of 45% in ticket pricing if you lucked out in buying tickets for the whole show, the con still sold out within an hour.

A blog post prior to tickets going on sale explained changes to the show this year, including the reasoning of only offering single day passes:

Change #3: Lastly we will be doing away with 4-Day badges. When looking over the data, we saw that people were buying 4-Day badges and not using them for the full four days. By switching everything over to single days, we can help ensure that every sold badge actually gets used. Since the show isn’t falling on Labor Day, it would have made the “not using the Monday part of their 4-Day badge” situation even more pronounced.

Hopefully with all these changes, we’ll be able to provide an especially enjoyable environment for everyone and make sure the maximum number of people can take part in the festivities.

Personally, I don’t see a problem with the folks behind PAX deciding to institute a single day pass format; San Diego Comic Con did away with multiple day passes last year. I do understand some of the frustration though since I’m sure fans would have appreciated knowing the PAX decision before they logged in to buy tickets…

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