After the events of last night at BlizzCon, Saturday seemed to pale in comparison, not as many people there, less interesting panels, shorter lines for everything; less people in costume, and the final event of the BlizzCon being a concert put on by a WoW-themed rock band in the Anaheim Arena. The concert was, by all measures, far too geeky for me to want to attend.
Blizzard is working with Legendary Pictures (the same folks who brought your cinema 300 and Batman Begins) to produce a World of Warcraft live action movie, due to release in 2009. Details were super vague, with very few things decided; script hasn't been finalized, director and cast haven't been chosen. They're trying to make it a war movie, not an quest/adventure movie, owing to the fact that the franchise is "World of Warcraft".
I walked the con floor, got better pictures of the things that appeared too blurry the first time around, sat in on a couple of presentations, and learned that because the Murloc Suit was only given out to BlizzCon attendees, that they go for about $250 on eBay. Consider the situation: there are 9 million WoW players out there, and only 4-6,000 BlizzCon attendees, which means there aren't very many of these suits available relative to the number of players in WoW. While it boggles my mind that anyone would pay the equivalent of an real-life iPod for a virtual item, people do go to extremes for WoW. I'll keep the suit for now; maybe by the time I sell it, it'll be worth as much as an iPhone.
I don't have much else to report from BlizzCon, it seems that the last six months away from Azeroth has greatly diminished my understanding of the WoW dialect, without guildmates to explain what certain things were and what relevance they had, I would have been as lost as newbie wandering through Elwynn Forest. For instance, in the past six months, Holy Priests, which were once the best healers in the game, have been re-specing to become Shadow Priests, while Holy Paladins, which were once marginal combat healers, have become the par-de-excellence at main tank healing. Retribution Paladins are still useless, and Warlocks have become the greatest dps-dealing class in the game, much to the Rogues' chagrin.
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