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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.
We interrupt this revolution to bring you BlizzCon!
Actually, just ask them about Ghostbusters and Brutal Legend.
The two best days of your life were at a video game convention? They better have had blackjack and hookers...
"..the best two days of my life."
And what a life it must be~
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In fact, forget the blackjack!
Yes yes, you broke your agreement, and they retaliated and you lost.
Clearly they're SOBs
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Or through that pesky internet thing.
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That's never going to happen. Even for the biggest proponents of it, world PvP is only fun for so long. You just won't have very many people at all who will sit there and do the same world PvP over and over for years on end, with nothing else to mix it up. You need that gear-drive to keep people playing long-term (as in years rather than months). What they do need to do however is bring a lot more balance to PvP and PvE. Pre TBC (but post MC) there was far too much emphasis on PvE to be able to participate in PvP. If you didn't do MC and BWL you were pretty much guaranteed to suck it up in PvP. (Even worse, depending on your class your set gear might not help at all for PvP.) Now it's just the opposite - and the worst of it is, the PvP you have to do to get your PvP gear is the worst form of PvP and is completely unrepresentative of everything PvP was actually supposed to be. PvP gear needs to be equally easy to obtain, no matter which part of the game you want to play. That would include Arena, Battlegrounds, world PvP, raiding, and even 5-man instances or solo questing. Any of those should enable you to get the exact same PvP gear for the same time and effort and give you the same chance to be effective in PvP.
Ironically, this is how Blizzard consistently ends up failing with WoW: they do listen (too much) to the players, and they overreact and screw things up in a different way than before.
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You've got your wish... G4 is promoting PAX as part of their August convention coverage on X-Play.