Well that was fast.  In a little over a week PAX Prime passes have completely sold out!  That’s the 3-day passes and the single-day passes.  Their main website says:

Every single badge has been sold, and there will be no extra allotments either online or on-site. We know many of you would still like to attend, but unfortunately, building firecode restricts us from selling any more badges.

Along those same lines, if you buy a badge from a third party, we have a series of measures in place to detect counterfeits on-site.

Basically it seems like last year TONS of people were counter fitting badges.  This year I’m assuming, if they’re using the same technology they had at PAX East, they’ll have hologram like stickers on the badges to make sure they’re legit.  They want people to know it’s not the money they’re losing from the badge sales that worries them, it’s the extremely high amount of people over the fire code limit that makes it a legitimate safety concern.  If you didn’t buy a pass that really sucks!  Just be careful if you’re looking on craigslist or EBay because if the people you’re buying from are unscrupulous, you’re SOL.

via paxprime