Hot Young Naked Blood Elves

[Frybread]

http://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/dwarf.jpgRows and rows of computers, from the entrance all the way back to a giant rubber mountain, at least two city blocks, covered the Anaheim convention center. A line wormed around the edges, with wait times over an hour. A girl behind me, in full elf costuming, screeched in excitement when she saw a group of other elves, “OOO COSPLAYERS!” (Cosplay is a term for people who are passionate about the game dress-up - similar to your local Cher look-alike) When I reached for the door, an elderly security guard turned me away, due to my laptop.

Was a cosplay convention which featured thrills such as “waiting in line to play WoW” a waste of $125? Not even close. By the end of Blizzcon, I had enough pictures to fill two memory sticks, made more money than I spent on the entire trip, and snuck my laptop past the security grandma.

I'm going to get this out of the way first,

HALF NAKED BLOOD ELVES
http://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/nakedelves.jpg


DANCING


http://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/befront.jpg (http://www.notaddicted.com/video/bloodelfdance.wmv)
1.3MB, click to watch. (http://www.notaddicted.com/video/bloodelfdance.wmv)


I ended up not having to wait in line to play. While the developers were doing the “Class Discussion Panel” in a different hall, I walked out to find the expansion-demo computers empty. The demo was limited, one outdoor zone and no advancing past level 4. When trying to run to the city, this is what happened:

http://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/elfcity.jpg
(http://www.notaddicted.com/video/citywall.wmv)Glimpse of the new city. 0.8MB (http://www.notaddicted.com/video/citywall.wmv)

Class Balance Panel
Summary:

New spells and skills, not just upgrades, for levels 60-70.

More racial differences

Paladins not to be Healadins anymore.I had to miss most of the class discussion panel to play it, but why not? The panel was a bunch of people angry about their class, waiting to have a word with the developers. Some of these people had legitimate complaints. Most had insane ideas. At any rate, an angry nerd asks a question, the crowd cheers, and the developer talks his way out. This kept happening over and over. Observe:

ANGRY MAGE GIVES THE DEVS WHATFOR
http://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/tinkerbell.jpg (http://www.notaddicted.com/video/angrymage.wmv)
Yes, that's Tinkerbell. 1.4MB (http://www.notaddicted.com/video/angrymage.wmv)

Raid Discussion Panel
Summary:
Lockout Timers changed

Ahn’Qiraj, a new raid instance, will require both Horde and Alliance to open the portalhttp://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/dippindots.jpgI wandered in to the raid panel, and learned that the devs are going to have more scripted events and more player limits - which is becoming a theme for Blizzard. The biggest news was the raid lockout timer, but I didn’t hear about that until after the show. I walked out early to have some dippin dots.

Art Panel
Summary:

New items/models in the expansion will have more polygons

Tier 1 armor is being revamped for 1.9I didn’t go, so if you are really interested in how they do the art check Goblin Workshop's (http://www.goblinworkshop.com/BlizzCon/2005/art-panel.html) writeup, but if you're not then check out this horse tree thing walk around, it’s like anti-art:
http://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/treething.jpg (http://www.notaddicted.com/video/treething.wmv)
How does it move? 0.3MB (http://www.notaddicted.com/video/treething.wmv)

Items/Professions Panel
Summary:

socketed items

New Trade Skill: JewelcraftingThe most boring panel. The only interesting news was the revelation of “socketed” items, which means items will have several “sockets” in which you can place little stat boosters or buffs. Think of it as room for multiple enchants on a single item. Other than that, the whole hour was filled with discussions on the finer points of making potions, and one joke; a girl in the audience said “breast” and everyone burst out in hoots and howls.

HAHA BREAST
http://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/orc.jpg (http://www.notaddicted.com/video/breast.wmv)
0.6MB and not worth clicking (http://www.notaddicted.com/video/breast.wmv)

Storyline and Lore panel
Summary:

Blood elves enjoy cocainehttp://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/offspring.jpgOn second thought, this was the most boring panel. I remember that orcs hate humans, 10 years ago in the first Warcraft. That was pretty easy to understand. Since then, there have been a slew of main characters, the horde and alliance have been united and broken apart 14 times, and 30 novels were written. Isn’t this a video game? Does anybody really read video game novels?

The guy explaining the storyline was speaking to a half-filled room, and tried to simplify the 10 year-old muddled story by explaining that genocide made such and such race “really pissed off”, and compared magic to crack at least twice.

The Dungeon Panel
Summary:

More "winged" dungeons, meaning you can kill a boss in 30 minutes.
Roles for all types of classes and builds in the new dungeons. Even feral druids. This was the best panel. Tom Chilton (Lead Designer) went straight into the gameplay philosophy of WoW, which to the often asked question of player freedom:

“Why can’t I play World of Warcraft the way I want to play? Why are there so many artificial restrictions, why can’t I take a raid of 50 players through my favorite dungeon?”
Simply answered,
“We think you’d have more fun playing our way. In doing so, we can bring you the best elements of a single player RPG.”

The answer was specifically about instance raid limits, but it could apply to every player freedom question. Cross-faction talk, high level buffs on low level players, raid limits, casinos, we know these things aren’t allowed, but now we know the basic philosophy behind those decisions.

The developer went on to explain that when he puts limits on the amount of people in a dungeon, he can script events and know what will happen. He can plan out the exact amount of monsters a group should face at a certain point, enabling them to mix up the pulls to keep the group from getting bored. For example, at one point players get a group of humanoid casters, the next point they get beasts, and then they’re faced with monsters immune to fire, and then they're faced with a nearly overwhelming combo of all three. Due to restrictions on who can enter a dungeon, the developers can plan out every encounter, every close-call, and every single pull exactly as they like.

In a true open-ended MMORPG, the developer has no idea who he’s designing an encounter for. He can script events, but what’s the use? There may be a raid of 200 players from different guilds who would destroy whatever the dev had in mind, and then complain about kill-stealing.

My bias is still towards player freedom, but it was good to hear the other side argued so well. Controlled encounters set WoW apart from every other MMORPG, and are possibly the reason for its success.

Battlegrounds Panel
Summary

*Battlegrounds will someday affect the outside world. No word on how.I didn’t go to this panel.

The night of Day 1 ended in a costume contest, a bunch of other contests, and my favorite,

the song contest.


http://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/babymurloc.jpgThe contest was made up of that Korn guy, Johnathan Davis, and a speaker from Blizzard. The speaker was enthusiastic, rambling on about the prizes the song writers are about to win, and over-introducing Jonathan. Mr. Korn was important as he was the judge of this whole deal, and the grand prize was an autographed guitar.

Johnathan stood against the railing in the very back of the stage, arms crossed, feet shuffling, eyes down. The speaker announced the warcraft songs one by one, and a 30 second clip played of each. After every clip Johnathan was asked if he liked it, and all he could say is "meh" or "eh". He usually put his palm out flat and shook it a bit.

Since I haven't seen them posted anywhere else, you can grab them here. These songs are quite useful if you ever need to impress hot girls on teamspeak with your music taste. I've included Johnathan's reaction.

a_dream_of_emerald__the_kalimdor_battlefront.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/a_dream_of_emerald__the_kalimdor_battlefront.mp3)
"not so good"
drinking_from_the_fire_hose_-_a_dwarf_hunter_named_wedge.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/drinking_from_the_fire_hose_-_a_dwarf_hunter_named_wedge.mp3)
"eeeh, was ok" (this one ended up winning)
gnomeregan_blues.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/gnomeregan_blues.mp3)
(gesticulated "so so" with his hand)
jiggle07_-_stormwind_latenight_256kbps.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/jiggle07_-_stormwind_latenight_256kbps.mp3)
"meh"
lfg_ubrs.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/lfg_ubrs.mp3)
"eeh.. hm"
my_night_elf_priest.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/my_night_elf_priest.mp3)
(tilted his head to the right slightly)
rogue_blues.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/rogue_blues.mp3)
(did not acknowledge that he was asked a question)
song_to_elune.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/song_to_elune.mp3)
"eh"
stonetalon_peak_l.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/stonetalon_peak_l.mp3)
"meh"
thesadlifeofgamon.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/thesadlifeofgamon.mp3)
(gesticulated "so so" with his hand)


Day 2



http://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/fireshirts.jpgI decided to do things a bit different. Instead of waiting in a line to get inside, I went to a breakfast joint on the corner. When I came back, the line was gone. Instead of walking around not talking to my fellow nerds, I put a sign on my chest that stated, “WTB MURLOC PET $20” which struck up many conversations. Instead of going to discussion panels, I took pictures of the people I met.

My favorite thing I saw was a skinny guy, covered in hickies holding hands with a large girl. True love doesn’t care if you look like your night elf! Another great thing was the security. They didn’t let you bring laptops into the main hall and did not explain the reason. I believe it was so you couldn’t copy the blood-elf demo and release it to your favorite w4r3z group or emu server. I just wanted to take notes, and was tired of running back to my car. The security grandmas became overwhelmed when three guys in orc costumes came in at the same time, so I took the opportunity to sneak in with my laptop.

Walking around the booths for free food, which were set up by Newegg, Microsoft, Zboard and other companies, I got a lot of curious looks at my “WTB MURLOC PETS $20” sign. One flat-topped gentlemen from a Logitech booth approached me and said,
“Whoa hey, I read about this stuff! People pay money for virtual items, ha ha ha!”
I replied, “Yes, I am paying money for a virtual pet.”
He pulled a murloc card from the VIP pass hanging on his neck, waved it around, and said, “Alright then, here it is. Where’s my $20?! Ha!”
I gave him $20 and he looked stupefied, like he was expecting to just give me the silly card. All of his buddies laughed, and a couple sold me theirs as well. They kept giving each other weird looks, shrugs, and laughs.

http://www.notaddicted.com/images/blizzcon/hair.jpgI’m sure they felt like they just ripped some geek off for $100, and at the time, I felt the same. By the end of Blizzcon, I’d spent $180 for 9 pets. I had the idea to give them away as a contest for Not Addicted, a site that makes $0 by the way, so it was ridiculous even for that purpose. I did get ripped off!

I didn’t look at Ebay until I was curling up into the hotel bed that night. I curiously typed in the word Murloc, and... holy fucking hell. If you’ve ever won $1000 in the lottery, which I haven’t, it’s close to how it feels to look through Murloc listings on Ebay. Murlocs were going from $300-$500 each. I was a thousandaire!

I told my girlfriend we are now on an official vacation – and it will be lasting the rest of the week. We went to Disneyland, West Hollywood, L.A. and Santa Monica, where I got drunk and puked on my swim trunks, all thanks to Murloc pets.

(There are still two murloc pets left, and they will fulfill their original purpose later this month.)


Click to learn more about Blizzcon 2005 >>>> (http://www.notaddicted.com/index.php?page=blizzcon)

[The Dingy Dwarf]

Sounds hot.

[Frybread]

It was so hot people's shirts were catching on fire!

[Eaglie]

As always, I am impressed, Fry. It almost makes me wish I could have gone, if only to see Offspring (solely to make fun of my Offspring-obsessed friend).

[Unregistered]

drinking_from_the_fire_hose_-_a_dwarf_hunter_named_wedge.mp3 (http://www.notaddicted.com/audio/drinking_from_the_fire_hose_-_a_dwarf_hunter_named_wedge.mp3)
"eeeh, was ok" (this one ended up winning)

what the fuck did I just listen to

[Runned]

From now on I am going to begin every post I make with "hot young naked" so that I can get 18000 views

[curiosity]

Wow....that girl with the bun on the side is from Star Tours.....nice

[Frybread]

Wow....that girl with the bun on the side is from Star Tours.....nice

haha I was waiting for someone to catch that

[Unregistered]

one extra baby murloc, $30

750g in o/l auction for my 46 hunter and his mount.

it's all good

[Unregistered]

So this is the new age version of the Trekky Conventions, eh?

It's sad really. There are tons of really great, intellectually stimulating games out there that now have this terrible nerd-stigma attached to them. Take Dungeon's and Dragons for example. While some of our socially inept brothers and sisters were sitting around a table eating paste and adjusting their pocket protectors, gleefully announcing they rolled a 19-20 on their d20, I was getting stoned, eating pizza and drinking beer with my friends...doing the same thing.

These rediculous gamer nerds are the problem, and they ruin all my fun and ability to be open about the things that interest me. Now I play World of Warcraft, I love computer gaming, but I shy away from even admitting it because of morons like this. I'm sorry, but if you're life is so socially bankrupt that you've got to assemble at a convention center with other like-minded anti-social idiots dressed as "Night Elves" and "Murlocs", perhaps the best thing for you is to put down the keyboard and mouse and make something better of yourself. The fact that you engage in such activities in the first place is a clear sign that you are, in fact, a dumbass. I refuse to believe that your parents beating you as a child or locking you in the basement was anything but your own fault to begin with.

I mean, look at these people, haha. A friend of mine in game was talking to me about this convention, and said his uncle had brought his cousin to it as a gift to him (his cousin being one of these people I am illustrating, no doubt) and at one of these "meetings" saw a guy burst into tears exclaiming "THANK YOU!!!" when they revealed that, in fact, blood elves would be the new race.

So anyways, I'm going to go rail my girlfriend. But first, I think it's time to grind out that last bit of WSG rep. Strange duality? I think not.

[Unregistered]

прет

[Unregistered]

But first, I think it's time to grind out that last bit of WSG rep. Strange duality? I think not.

Of course it is. LOLZ, you're an asshat.

And no, I didn't go to Blizzcon.

[Unregistered]

how do you wear an asshat ?

... i mean is it an internal thing ?

[Naolin]

how do you wear an asshat ?

... i mean is it an internal thing ?

When you walk on your hands and still want to look spiffy, you wear a hat on your ass. Asshat, see it's easy.

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