BlizzCon Cometh

BlizzCon Cometh 43

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday June 29, 2005 @09:12AM from the orcs-on-parade dept.

Via Blues, the news that Blizzard will be hosting a games convention. The event, scheduled for October 28th and 29th, is intended to celebrate all three of the Blizzard franchises (Diablo, Starcraft, and Warcraft). From the announcement: "Attendees can look forward to a variety of events, including participating in question and answer panels with the developers of World of Warcraft® and StarCraft: Ghost(TM), playing Blizzard games live with friends, and watching the world's best Warcraft III and StarCraft pro-gamers compete in the BlizzCon Invitational tournament."

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Please God.. (Score:1)

by kutsu119 ( 883719 ) writes:

Please, Blizzard, announce Starcraft for the Nintendo DS!!
Travesty (Score:5, Funny)

by Necromancyr ( 602950 ) writes: on Wednesday June 29, 2005 @09:16AM (#12940641)

This will be a travesty if Leeroy Jenkins isn't included on one of the panels.

- Re:Travesty (Score:1)
  
  by jasonmicron ( 807603 ) writes:
  
  If I could, I would mod you up to +5 funny! You just made me spill my coffee!!
- Re:Travesty (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by LincolnQ ( 648660 ) writes: on Wednesday June 29, 2005 @09:43AM (#12940806)
  
  For those who don't know, Leeroy Jenkins refers to this video:
  http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=166 6 [warcraftmovies.com]
  
  The video spread like wildfire throughout the WoW community about a month ago, and it's been leaking into online communities everywhere since then. Even if you don't play WoW, the video is worth seeing.
  
  - Re:Travesty (Score:2)
    
    by CFTM ( 513264 ) writes:
    
    Is this the one where the guy runs in and gets his entire group wiped out because he was AFK?
    
    At work and the shit is blocked by websense...BigBrother is watching, oh hi!
    - Re:Travesty (Score:1)
      
      by KtHM ( 732769 ) writes:
      
      Yes.
      
      At least he's not a chicken.
- Re:Travesty (Score:2)
  
  by sgant ( 178166 ) writes:
  
  absolutely...Leeroy should be there. Even though the video is an obvious fake...I mean, even when they ran into the rookery THEY were the ones running around hitting every egg they could step on spawning even more dragonlings. Also, the anger everyone had for Leeroy running in like that is totally out of whack..I mean, it's what, a 5 minute run back to your corpse? It's not like you lost anything.
  
  Also, if some idiot ran in there by himself, you can bet all of us would just sit back and watch him die...bein
- Re:Travesty (Score:2)
  
  by mog007 ( 677810 ) writes:
  
  Three franchises? What about the lost vikings?!
Freecraft (Score:2)

by ArmorFiend ( 151674 ) writes:

When their latency to battle.net gets too high, I wonder if they'll suddenly start to understand why battle.net is a good thing?
- Re:Freecraft (Score:2)
  
  by ArmorFiend ( 151674 ) writes:
  
  When their latency to battle.net gets too high, I wonder if they'll suddenly start to understand why Freecraft is a good thing?
  - Re:Freecraft (Score:1)
    
    by Nova1313 ( 630547 ) * writes:
    
    There are plenty of good servers on battle.net Especially now since it's not as popular and useast is not connected to uswest. At the time exodus and att tried to sync up then it was bad...
Down with the evil empire! (Score:4, Insightful)

by jspayne ( 98716 ) writes: <.moc.ecalpsenyap. .ta. .ffej.> on Wednesday June 29, 2005 @09:36AM (#12940766) Homepage

But hey guys, isn't Blizzard evil? We should be boycotting them because of the whole bnetd fiasco, right? Who's with me? Let's go....
ooooh...shiny...

Jeff

- Re:Down with the evil empire! (Score:2, Funny)
  
  by centauri ( 217890 ) writes:
  
  I would normally agree, but my subspace connection to the Collective has been acting up recently.
- Re:Down with the evil empire! (Score:3, Informative)
  
  by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) writes:
  
  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/free/bnet d.html [greenend.org.uk]
  Someone needs to keep working on bnetd in a country not affected by the draconian DMCA
  - Re:Down with the evil empire! (Score:2)
    
    by imr ( 106517 ) writes:
    
    shhh, keep cool and low profil, Fidel, they have been destroying whole countries for less than that recently.
    - Re:Down with the evil empire! (Score:2)
      
      by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) writes:
      
      I've decided to switch my normal 4 letter words with far more offensive 4 letter words
      DMCA you RIAA-hole , what a pile of MPAA , ARIA-ing in the rigging, Shove that up your RIAA ,Mother DMCAer ,
- Re:Down with the evil empire! (Score:1, Flamebait)
  
  by king-manic ( 409855 ) writes:
  
  But hey guys, isn't Blizzard evil? We should be boycotting them because of the whole bnetd fiasco, right? Who's with me? Let's go....
  ooooh...shiny...
  
  Jeff
  
  We decided that a shitty server emulator wasn't worth the effort to care. So we don't care anymore.
- The "we" you refer to is a small niche (Score:2)
  
  by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) writes:
  
  The "we" you refer to is a small niche. Most slashdotters don't care. If the game is fun they play it. Don't fall into the trap where you assume everyone, or even an majority, or even a non-trivial number of people, share your opinion(s). They don't.
  
  That said, go play whatever game makes you happy for whatever reasons you have, and let the rest of us do the same without your nagging. Thanks.
A Blizzard Convention? (Score:1)

by rellix ( 888535 ) writes:

Blizzard should be weary about what they're getting into, but regardless I hope wherever it's being held has enough strollers and acne cream stations.
- Re:A Blizzard Convention? (Score:2)
  
  by Chyeld ( 713439 ) writes:
  
  I imagine the organizers will get a bit tired before it is all over. But I think you really mean leery [answers.com] rather than weary [answers.com].
  - Re:A Blizzard Convention? (Score:2)
    
    by Macgrrl ( 762836 ) writes:
    
    Or possibly "wary", as in careful... :)
- - Re:Starcraft? (Score:2)
    
    by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) writes:
    
    Same for Best Buy and about any other electronics store I've visited. I'm surprised someone can't find it.
I'm going. (Score:5, Funny)

by JavaLord ( 680960 ) writes: on Wednesday June 29, 2005 @10:56AM (#12941358) Journal

I'm going, and I'm going to find the developer who decided a priest should outdamage my paladin and kick him square in the balls.

- Re:I'm going. (Score:1)
  
  by h8mE ( 748976 ) writes:
  
  quit your whining you scum only the shaman has less downtime than your lame class
  - Re:I'm going. (Score:2)
    
    by tuxedobob ( 582913 ) writes:
    
    To a paladin, fighting IS downtime.
- Re:I'm going. (Score:1, Interesting)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  Paladins have Balls?
  
  I'd better submit this to /.!
- Re:I'm going. (Score:1)
  
  by KtHM ( 732769 ) writes:
  
  It's revenge on the class for enigma hammerdins. Quit whining.
- Re:I'm going. (Score:2)
  
  by Quill ( 238781 ) writes:
  
  As a warlock, I intend to do much, much more.
So will they make us wait hours... (Score:1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

Just to get inside? :-)

I just canceled my subscription yesterday though. It wasn't the poor game balance that did me in, though it helped! It was the absolutely terrible customer service.
- Re:So will they make us wait hours... (Score:2)
  
  by JavaLord ( 680960 ) writes:
  
  Yep, I cancelled mine as well. I'm sick of the poor game balance, on top of the poorly implemented battlegrounds, on top of the timesink/forced grouping that the endgame is.
Remember bnetd... case still ongoing. (Score:3, Informative)

by hirschma ( 187820 ) writes: on Wednesday June 29, 2005 @02:09PM (#12943004)

EFF Case Summary Page [eff.org]
I didn't buy Warcraft III, or anything else by Blizzard, as a result of Blizzard's stupid actions.

jh

- That's fine, but the rest of us ... (Score:2)
  
  by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) writes:
  
  That's fine, but the rest of us are having an awful lot of fun. To each his own.

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Please God.. (Score:1)

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The "we" you refer to is a small niche (Score:2)

A Blizzard Convention? (Score:1)

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I'm going. (Score:5, Funny)

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So will they make us wait hours... (Score:1, Informative)

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