Comments on: The Blizzard Show: Fear & Longing in Paris

By: ben hurr

ben hurr — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:36:43 +0000

Was this the dumpy looking girl?

By: Walsh

Walsh — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:22:09 +0000

For awhile there I was empathising but then Alec was slowly going native until the last paragraph which made me laugh out loud. Cry.

By: Manu

Manu — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:26:23 +0000

@Alec Meer

Thanks ! :)

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:30:50 +0000

Speaking of people being ludicously happy, here’s some fan reactions to Diablo 3 as per the magic of mobile camera’s:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1qSs6QdNxCQ

Seeing that many people happy actually warmed this grumpy old bastards heart a smidge.

By: R.

R. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:17:01 +0000

I can certainly understand where the writer is coming from, I felt much the same (especially at the ‘2nd Vice President of Stationery Supplies, wooo!’ bits) – a mate got me a ticket so I figured I’d pop by then enjoy Paris for the rest of the weekend but as he says, the atmosphere was surprisingly great. Having never played the Diablo games, the announcement meant little to me but Christ, the 3 French guys in front of me acted like it was their favourite band, the second coming, Christmas and their birthday rolled into one, they just went delirious. And you can’t help but get swept away in that.

I’ve been to a mere handful of gaming events over the years and come away unimpressed but this one…this was actually really fun. A bit padded out but fun. Blizzard are undoutbedly a moneymaking behemoth but unlike many of their peers, you do get the feeling their hearts are in the right place.

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:24:03 +0000

Spam filters are never reliable beasts, unfortunately. I’ve retrieved your earlier comment from its nets .

By: Manu

Manu — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:56:43 +0000

I can’t post a comment .. If I indicate my website, WP says that my comment has been flagged as spam (??), and that I should wait.

If I write the same comment without my website address, it tells me that I “already said that comment”.

What’s up with that ?

By: Seniath

Seniath — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:53:25 +0000

@ heh:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/07/01/aint-no-pleasin-some-folks/

By: heh

heh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:12:22 +0000

good article though the author kinda sounds like he needs to get laid LOL
Rock on diablo 3 and all of that (though diablo 3 uses the WoW color scheme, wtf?)

By: Tr00jg

Tr00jg — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:07:33 +0000

Yeah, haha! The Murloc mating calls was classic!

By: mechazawa

mechazawa — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:55:42 +0000

I watched most of it thanks to the pretty good streams Blizzard provided. The live shows on Sunday’s evening were pretty cool :)

By: Manu

Manu — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:51:35 +0000

I must admit that I too cheered for the HR guy, and the global finance dude.

They started by announcing the founders of Blizzard, then the heads of game development/artwork/whatever, and everybody cheered. When they announced the names of the others, much less known guys, I cheered mostly to be polite, but also ironically :

“Wow !! Human Ressources guy !! You rooooock !”.
Haha.

Anyways, ’twas a fun event, but with enough content for one day only, I think.
I went back sunday only to be able to play lich king and SC2 without having to wait 2 hours :).