This year I decided to get BlizzCon on Pay-per-View through DirecTV. There are enough potential announcements that could come up this time around related to StarCraft II, Diablo III, and World of Warcraft that I felt it was worthwhile to sign up to watch.
Not that there won’t be adequate press coverage of BlizzCon. But sometimes it is good to see announcements and presentations directly rather than filtered through the lens that is the perception of others.
I signed up and, after an hour on the phone with DirecTV’s support department, I am ready to roll. The feed starts at 11am today, while I am at work, so I wanted to record the session on the DVR and there were some technical issues preventing me from scheduling the recording. But DirecTV solved the problem and gave me $15 off my bill for the inconvenience.
So once I get home tonight I will be ready for a weekend of BlizzCon viewing. 16 hours of gaming TV. I have my TV viewing equipment ready.
Greetings over your orthicon tube!
They had better announce something good. And, if not, I still get Gunty the Murloc Marine as an in-game pet in WoW.
The Ancient Gaming Noob 
Isn’t there something wrong with a company charging customers to see what effectively amounts to a big press release. They should be paying you to watch Blizzcon, not the other way around.
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Was that a microtransaction?
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I’m paying for 16 hours of video entertainment and an in-game pet. If it fails to deliver value for the money, you can bet I’ll mention it here.
And since the in-game pet is involved, I’m sure somebody will classify this as RMT for an in-game item. It isn’t a microtransaction though because I didn’t convert to another currency to purchase something that would otherwise be too low in price to support a credit card transaction.
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Let us know what it’s like. I’d be very curious to hear about it. Can you record clips to show us?
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The DirecTV setup looked pretty slick this year with the live hosts at Blizzcon itself. In between panels they were interviewing people like Metzon, Bower and other Blizz VP’s.
I hope the coverage of the panels included the Q&A time afterwards as they contained some great info too.
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Each of the sessions they ran were shown end to end including the Q&A period.
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