PAX East 2010
This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend PAX East 2010, the first east coast installment of Penny Arcade Expo. It was, in a word, insane. It was the most catastrophically organized convention I’ve ever been to because the 62,000 attendees were just way too many for the Hynes Convention Center.
Friday
After the long NYC->Boston bus ride, the usual issues with hotel check-in, and lunch, we got into the queue line on Friday to enter the convention. The queue line stretched through two gymnasium-sized rooms, and though we arrived an hour early, there were thousands of folks in front of us. By the time we made it up to the Main Theater for Wil Wheaton’s keynote address, the doors slammed shut in our face. The fire marshal had declared the space full, and we were left out. I asked an Enforcer (what they call the volunteers who help keep things running smoothly) if it was going to be broadcast in any other rooms since there were thousands more people in line behind me, and he told me I could “probably catch it later on YouTube.” Great.
Turns out Wheaton spoiled the end of Dragon Age: Origins, so maybe I was better off anyway. Read more »
Tags: con report, conventions, gaming, PAX, PAX East 2010
Uncategorized | Torie | 
March 30, 2010 6:09 pm | 
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