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Pitchforkless Impressions of Blizzcon (VT, Day1)

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tzagear
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-22 04:06:34
October 22 2011 03:59 GMT
#1
After a quick trip to the store for some snack foods and I was ready to plant myself in front of the streams. I got the Virtual Ticket for my birthday from my wife. Seeing as my birthday is more than 2 weeks away, this was a very pleasant surprise.

I did find the D3 and WoW content to be entertaining, even though my interest is predominately in SC2. While I wasn’t thrilled at the games they chose to cast for the SC2 tournament they were decent games for watching with my wife and son.

While waiting for GSL to start I took a moment to reflect upon the day. Feeling unfocused I went to the forums for Blizzcon. What I found there were WoW players upset at all the Starcraft 2 Coverage and SC2 players upset at all the World of Warcraft coverage. The voice of reason says the are both products of Blizzard and these people are being awfully silly.

That was until I had a rather important realization — there was enough scheduled downtime that when my wife asked me to do housework I had no excuse not to. This thought lead me to want to join the ranks and reply to all these disgruntled Virtual Ticket purchasers and look around for a pitchfork I remembered I have never owned.

A calming Dr Pepper later I wanted to offer my impressions on today. Blizzard, the longest break in the action should be to watch an advert for a sponsor. The fact that I was able to not only keep up with reddit/twitter but catch up on some housework makes me feel used. So very used.

I am sure I am not the only one on a limited budget. Our entertainment budget is quite a bit smaller these days. Knowing that my wife spent her budget on me for something that, at is core, had a very amateur feel is disheartening for me. While my wife likely appreciates the homestead progress, I can honestly say that, after today, I would of prefered she spent the $40.00 to take us to a couple movies or something.

I hope to eat those words when I watch tomorrow.

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Rasun
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States787 Posts
October 22 2011 04:07 GMT
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100% agree, do not understand why they are being so stingy with the damn games they show. I literally would just stop by my computer every 20 minutes or so and see if games had started. Its absolutely ridiculous.
"People need to just settle the fuck down!"- Djwheat <3
Spessi
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
304 Posts
October 22 2011 04:14 GMT
#3
Frankly, I am relatively positive that Blizzard did not remotely have the virtual Blizzcon as any sort of priority.

I am SURE that the people there are having a ball. An absolute blast. i'm sure the event caters to them and is awesome. I am equally sure that half of the reason it's awesome is just because of the other people THERE.

But the virtual thing seems more like they just said..."well, we'll do something and people can watch and stuff", and...really it's just because blizzard knows good and damn well that regardless of how they do it, people WILL buy into it, simply because it's blizzard doing it and that's how they can get the new information and see things the only way they can if they can't come. which makes me sad.

i wish i had something positive to say in this post, because i don't really like just shitting all over, but...frankly i have nothing but disappointment for blizzard, and not just for blizzcon. on top of it most of the new units seem like things that should be fixes of current units or just sound like blatant horribly bad design choices, either because they'll only effect one match-up in one build situation basically, or they're just blatantly overpowered. o well though.

starcraft is an amazing game because of the community.
it will stay such, regardless of anything blizzard does.
"Um. Everyone, I love you!" - Boxer, IPL 3, Oct 8, 2011
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