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PAX '05 Tops 9,000 In Attendance

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-lot-of-fruit-fans dept.

Gamespot has word that this year's PAX convention saw more than 9,000 attendees. The runaway success of the Penny Arcade Expo has led them to make plans for an East Coast PAX sometime in 2008. From the article: "In fact, he said that expansion plans are afoot. Not only will the Bellevue convention change locations next year, Penny Arcade plans an East Coast version of PAX in 2008, specific location as yet undecided. 'Actually,' Khoo comments, 'most of our readers are on the East Coast.'"

23 comments

  1. Story instead of post? by bradbeattie · · Score: 2

    Shouldn't this just be a post in the other PAX article? Doesn't make sense for it to be a story of its own.

    1. Re:Story instead of post? by oringo · · Score: 1

      dupes like these are harder to capture since Zonk could be approving the dupe story when the first story is already in-queue for publication

    2. Re:Story instead of post? by bradbeattie · · Score: 1

      I guess an option would be to remove the dupe after it's detected.

    3. Re:Story instead of post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or possibly check the queue to see if their is a dupe already. Honestly the code would not be difficult to write, if the editors could pull their heads out of their asses for a minutes

    4. Re:Story instead of post? by Ratbert42 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think he's shooting for the ultimate goal: a dupe right after the original.

  2. Misleading summary by Red+Flayer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm getting extremely bothered about the lack of accuracy in Slashdot article summaries.

    Go ahead, mod me down. But editors should not just be approving articles they think are interesting or appropriate, they should be (gasp!) editing the summary copy.

    FTA: "Khoo told us that this year's convention had 7,000 attendees as of the end of Saturday, and he expected total attendence to hit around 8,500 or 9,000."

    From the summary: "Gamespot has word that this year's PAX convention saw more than 9,000 attendees"

    One quick check of the article would have revealed the contradiction. It's not such a big deal with this article, but factual misrepresentation is totally irresponsible.

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  3. 2 replies in 1 hour... by beowulfy · · Score: 1

    is kind of telling isn't it. Is that some kind of new record?

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    1. Re:2 replies in 1 hour... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sssh, that's Penny Arcades readers...

  4. East Coast seems under-conventioned by Jtheletter · · Score: 1
    I dunno, maybe I'm a bit too much of a shut-in geek and am missing something, but I live next to Cambridge in Boston and time and again I hear about super-con-this and mega-con-that-9! and get interested only to be shut down when I see it's in CA, or WA, or NV or some such. I'm sure that I'll be pelted with responses about how there are tons of cons in the NE, maybe a few of you could even provide some links to good sites that list em?

    We have a few awesome ones, to be sure. The Boston Anime con was pretty cool this year, I hear the toy expo is neat too. But what I haven't heard of are any sort of East Coast E3 or PAX-type gaming cons, and besides the annual Boston Anime con I don't know about any other anime/comics cons in the area.

    I understand that CA is all hip and where it's at apparently, and they've got that whole silicon valley thing, but I'm smack in the middle of a tech belt here too! Just seems like the West coast is where its at for huge geek assemblies, but if you can't make the airfare then you're outta luck for most of the year up here. :(

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    1. Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned by Momoru · · Score: 1

      That's because half the point of conventions is a chance for people to boondoggle and get a mini vacation somewhere. Let's just say a trip to Pittsburgh, Boston, or Richmond is not as much fun as Vegas or San Diego.

    2. Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned by ABaumann · · Score: 1

      Pshaw! But you guys get concerts! You see twice as many bands in CT, NY, PA then we do here in WA.

    3. Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned by Nova1313 · · Score: 1

      true.. Some bands even come back several times a year to different venue's I live by philly and there are lots of concerts. Few conventions. I got to go to the linux expo in new york 2 years ago however. That was fun!

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    4. Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned by brilinux · · Score: 3, Funny

      I am taking a four year vacation to Pittsburgh, and am enjoying it quite a bit. Unfortunately, it costs $45000 a year...

    5. Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned by Blackwulf · · Score: 1

      Everyone whined when E3 was in Atlanta for two years...

    6. Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What about Otakon?

    7. Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned by Doctor+Tesla · · Score: 1

      Perhaps it's a grass is always greener mentality, but the only big cons West Side are this (which is located in far off and remote Seattle), Anime Expo, and San Diego Comic Con. East Coast cons far outnumber the ones we have in both quality and quantity.

    8. Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned by Jtheletter · · Score: 1
      East Coast cons far outnumber the ones we have in both quality and quantity.

      I think it's more just a product of my ignorance of the con landscape than a grass-is-greener thing, for me anyway. Although another poster made the very true point that we get way way more bands around here.

      Any chance you could elaborate for me on the outnumbering east coast cons that you mentioned? Someone else said Otakon, but other than that I got no suggestions.

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    9. Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's the problem, all the good East Coast conventions are in Atlanta (DragonCon and stuff) they're even considering an SOE Fan Faire in Atlanta. No one gives respect to the NYC metro area.

  5. Sounds like a plan by dauthur · · Score: 1

    East coast?! Why... I live there!

    Count me in.

  6. The East has Plenty of Conventions by iridium_ionizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Back east there are plenty of conventions to follow. Put your fork here. Be introduced all proper-like. Don't get soup in yer beard.

    It's out here in the West where we don't have many of yer all fancy conventions. The only one that I know of is that if yer gonna kill a man, kill 'im yerself. None of that new-fangled "hire your nephew Tony the Weasel to plug him."

    1. Re:The East has Plenty of Conventions by Jtheletter · · Score: 1
      If I could mod in the same thread as I posted then you sir would get a +1 Funny, and a +10 Firefly Rules! For now you'll just have to accept me adding you to my friends list. [clicky]

      Now if you'll excuse me I must set down my fork over... hea, and give my nephew a call to ixnay on the illkay.

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