Line to pick up badges
Just got back from Blizzcon today. Here are some photos I took during the two day convention.
Badge pickup booths
Snaking line to get in on opening day
What you see right after you walk in the doors
What you see after you walk in second set of doors
Opening Ceremony:
Waiting for Opening Ceremony to start
The Main Event Hall could fit quite a large number of people
Had to sit quite far back
Mike Morhaime, CEO and Co-Founder of Blizzard
Demo Areas:
Starcraft 2 Demo Area
WoW: Cataclysm Demo Area
Diablo 3 Demo Area
Starcraft Tournament Area:
Warcraft III Tournament Area:
World of Warcraft Arena Tournament Area:
Commentators for the arena matches
TSG from US/Canada – Global Champions
Shipit from South Korea – Runner-up
Partner Booths:
Razor
NVIDIA
Print Warcraft
Sculptures:
Side of Dark Portal
Dwarf
Illidan the Betrayer
Kerrigan – Queen of Blades
Orc and Wolf
And that’s it! The convention was quite enjoyable with my only issue being the long lines due to the massive amounts of people there. It was my first time going this year since I wanted to see what it was like, and I’m still debating whether to go next year.
Blizzard had a total of 1,700 PCs set up for the convention. I tried out all the demos which were the Starcraft II Campaign, Starcraft II Multiplayer, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and Diablo III. The allotted playtime for each demo was 20 minutes, which was more than I expected. I thought Starcraft II was the best out of the three with Diablo III being click and kill and WoW: Cataclysm still just WoW.
For the tournaments, I was fortunate enough to have a front row seat which made things more exciting. It was fun seeing the crowd’s reactions and cheers for the different teams. The first place winners for the three tournaments were given $25,000 USD per individual, quite a substantial amount of money. =O
As for the partner booths, it was basically trying to get free stuff. I didn’t win any of the larger prizes, but I did get free t-shirts and beanies. ^^;
It seems like there were either more Horde players there or they were just louder. Their cheers were way better than the Alliance during the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Even though I don’t play WoW anymore – FOR THE HORDE!
Anyone else go to Blizzcon this year?
Blizzcon 2009
Distant Worlds Concert – Music from FINAL FANTASY: Photos
Star Wars: In Concert Photos
StarCraft II Beta Impressions
1,700 pcs?? Wow, many happy gamers I think. ^^
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Reltair Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
The lines for the game demos moved fairly quickly and the allotted playtime was fair, which equals happy gamers. ^^
Plus, we all did get to play the games before release.
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