BlizzCon 2008 to be Televised

Blizzard has just started pushing their BlizzCon 2008 agenda in earnest and the big news this year is that apparently the highlights of the show are going to be televised. DIRECTV users will apparently be able to call up the show as a pay-per-view item and if you switch to the satellite service in August you can even get this item for free (I would love to see the numbers on how many people actually do this). Hopefully Blizzard continues to learn from their convention mistakes and capitalizes on the many new and exciting releases they have on the horizon. Tickets go on sale August 11.

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Oh good...

[plasmacutter]

Blizzard's calculated destruction of WoW and fans' the irrational warlock hate-fest will now be publicly available on TV!

Remember BnetD

[IdeaMan]

Let's not forget that Blizzard was one of the early abusers of the DMCA hammer.

That plus the fact that they deleted hundreds of my diablo 2 characters is why I have never subscribed to WoW. Play an MMO for the non-add impaired instead.

Re:Remember BnetD

[IdeaMan]

No, as above poster said, they expired, there was no agreement breakage.

It's fine with me if they don't have the hard disk space to store my characters, just encrypt them and ship them back to me.
All they have to do is encrypt and md5sum the files and email them back to me. When I want to start playing again, I email them back the save files, they check that the md5 matches the list they saved.

Just deleting the results of hundreds of hours of my work makes them negligent. The BnetD/evil DMCA usage was what tipped them into SOB territory.