Hello everyone ! I just got back from this event and I was very dissapointed. For those of you that wish you could have gone,don't sweat it you did'nt miss much. Arena 51 is a very small cyber cafe with about 50 PC's. There were maybe 100 people there around 2 P.M. when I arrived and I only stayed for about 45 minutes. I seriously thought I was in the wrong place,lol. In the room with all the PC's they had competitions going on for prizes,they were giving away atlas's ........ Besides that there were 2 developers in the corner that just smiled,did'nt speak much english and you could not go up to them during the competition. I was really bummed,I was hoping to atleast have a short conversation with them but could'nt.
And as for items for sale all they had were t-shirts for $20,sandoria,bastok and jeuno,no windurst.. they said that they sold them out in vegas. So I handed over a twenty for a jeuno shirt,I had to get something. There was another room two store fronts down and they had about 12 tables set up with "Hi my name is" tags and placement cards for different servers like ramuh table,bismarck table,etc. This was where people waited to join the competition. Thing is that I play on a PS2 so I had no idea how to play on a PC and it ruined it for me.
Other than that a couple people were wearing costumes but nothing really that great. However there were two really cute chicks dressed as mithras that came with the tour. They were walking around,getting pictures taken and signing t-shirts. I was'nt about to let some girl dressed in a costume scribble all over my over priced t-shirt,lol. I wanted to get the developers to sign it but like I said you could'nt even talk to them.
So this was a pretty big waste of time and I was very disappointed. My friend and I ended up going to Dinosaur bar and had some great ribs a few beers and stopped by Classy Kats (a local strip club) for a little while and headed home :)