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You’d be surprised how much non-BlizzCon WoW news you miss out on while at BlizzCon. Well that’s what MMO-Champion and WoW Insider are for, right? Well while I catch up on the additional news and see about getting my mods in line for tomorrow’s patch here’s a wrap up of the major news from BlizzCon that I heard. Read more… »
BlizzCon is over, it has been a good ride.
We were able to avoid lines most of today, but that isn’t to say there were none. We had to skip on the game demos and talking murlocs (sorry Gill), but StarCraft II beta is expected “soon” and Jinx will have the murlocs available online around mid to late November so it is just a delay, not a loss. Read more… »
11 Oct
Just a quick post for now. It is late for me (eastern time zone attendee at a western time zone con) and I have to get up early to buy Gillderon a talking murloc plush.
All in all BlizzCon is a lot of fun and a lot of things are better than last year, not that last year was bad by any means. It is also a lot bigger. I knew the crowd would be bigger. It was 8,000 last year and 15,000 this year. However I was not prepared for the size and scope of the lines. Thursday’s registration line took my group almost 5 minutes to get from the front door to the end of the line. The line itself was faster than last year, but was quite intimidating and still over an hour long. Today wasn’t much better. Read more… »
I was one of the lucky few who managed to brave Blizzard’s online ticket purchase and come away with a ticket. Many gnomes died to bring us that uptime… Read more… »
