This was incredibly depressing. I missed so many panels over this.

However, the biggest problem with this was not the panels, but the exhibitor room. I would like everyone to know that demos are NOT timed. I waited in line to play Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands for 25 minutes... and there was only one person in front of me. They let him play endlessly, and this is the real problem with the event.

I did not find a single game that had a time limit, or that had employees moving people at 5 minute paces. Nothing. They need to set that requirement or I may not go back next year.

I was going to say. Just killing time in lines with friends was actually a really good experience. Still, lines...  fuck 'em. 

The lines for the panels sound really bad, but hopefully things will be better next year when they have larger rooms to accommodate more people. They also should have routed people into other rooms with large screens for some of the bigger stuff like the keynote. Say you can't get into the Main theatre? No problem, you'll just go watch it projected in the Naga theatre.

As far as lines in the Exhibition hall, the exhibitors probably could have done a better job making sure the lines move along. When I was waiting for Red Dead Redemption, the line moved fairly quickly until I turned the corner and was in sight of the entrance. Then, I'm pretty sure I waited another half-hour before getting in.

The Crackdown 2 demo was handled well, so they weren't all bad.

Waiting for the concerts was pretty bad, even with the in-line games, but that was mainly because it was at the end of a long day and they ran late starting the concerts both nights.

I think they could elevate a little by stream videos of different pannels. You lucky ticket holders can watch for free and us poor bastards who couldn't go can pay $20~$40 to watch it live. I think this is what blizzcon did

This is a really weird thing to say, but that line in the top picture was the best line I was in all weekend. I think it was because people kept walking by to give us stuff. They did that in the Red Dead Redemption line, too, but let's be honest -- how many stickers does a person need?

I stood in line to get in and i stood in line to get in to the omegathon/closing ceremony. Everything else i just walked in to by strategically placing myself in to spot where i could run in at the tail end of a line or i just waltzed in casually.

Four hours for the create a strip? Thats crazy. I walked in two minutes before it started and sat in the back and had a pretty good view of everything.

I waited in line for Crackdown and walked away before i could play because something else interested me. Same thing with APB. So i guess my impressions of the lines aren't bad.

If I had gone to every panel I wanted to, I would've done nothing but wait in line at PAX East. I'm not really complaining though, I still had a blast.

@Jacky: I like your streaming idea. Even better? A bigger venue. Thankfully, it'll be in the larger Boston Convention Center next year.

If there's one thing we video game geeks are good at, it's standing in lines. Just look to any video game console launch or Star Wars premiere for evidence of that.

I waited in line for a line at PAX.  I wanted to get into the joystiq panel, and the line for another panel was taking the space.  So we had to wait in line so that we could wait in line.  The line for the line was about 30 minutes, and the line itself was an hour and a half.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3gFgVPxgEQ

The lines were crazy at PAX but we just decided to have fun and forget about panels as the above video shows. I was able to get both Mike and Jerry on film and we met them several times off-camera along with some awesome video game journalists my brother and I both admire.

Yea the lines were pretty crazy, I only actually made it into 2 panels. We took it pretty casually though. What was cool was that in all the lines we were in most of the time people around you would strike up conversations. Other times, we'd mess around and play Magic with the free decks they gave in the swag bag. I think it will be much nicer next year in a bigger venue, I'm not sure how much it will shrink the lines though.