Starcraft 2 and Blizzcon 2009 Plans

August 3rd, 2009

I am ashamed to admit it but, I am not a good little game geek. You see, I really wanted to attend Blizzcon 2009 and mingle with all the other gaming fans. I wanted to stay awake all night ingesting alcohol, mountain dew, or maybe even coffee and playing, discussing, or otherwise immerse myself in the Blizzard games. I wanted to see who had the absolute worst taste in clothing, games, or hairstyles, as well as who was the most socially inept of the big names in Blizz gaming. I also really wanted any goodies that Blizzard would be giving out.

Oh yeah and I had harbored secret hope that if we haven’t gotten any news on the Starcraft 2 beta by August 21st that the convention would be the perfect opportunity for them to give it up, not to mention (super secret hope) maybe some random Starcraft 2 beta keys might drop for those of us not lucky enough to be assured a place in beta testing, right? Well, that’s what I hoped for and maybe what I planned, but what happened was way different.

For instance, I had to have my car repaired, my dog got sick, my computer needed a new hard drive and so I put off registering for the convention for a while. Not good. As you fellow Starcraft 2 gamer fans probably already know, the first batch of tickets went faster than a plateful of cookies at a weight watchers convention. No worries, the gnomes or maybe its Zerg drones they use at Blizzard were whipping up a second batch of these tickets for those who missed the first. The second batch sold out even faster than the first. So that left me out of luck along with many other gamers whose deepest desire of the moment was attending Blizzcon 2009.

Oh, no worries they had more up their sleeves. Though the gnomes and drones had gone on strike and refused to put out more tickets for the Blizzcon 2009, Blizzard offered another option for the convention deprived among us. I mean after all, who wants to go in person, mingle with other gamers and look over the shoulders of people lucky enough to be playing Starcraft 2? Yeah, well maybe us, but they offered the first ever live internet stream and a Direct TV stream of the convention.

So that is where I will be on August 21st and 22nd, watching the live internet stream and drooling over the Blizzard goodies. Then I will blogging my little heart out about anything they let drop about Starcraft 2! I even have two computers for that purpose, the laptop for taking notes, and yeah baby, the main pc for watching that puppy. Now, those of you who have attended these conventions before know they always unveil something special. It’s an orgy of visual spectacles, interviews, and always some sort of special news too.

Not to be too gloomy about missing Blizzcon 2009 in person, I have found a few bright spots about watching it from my computer. For instance, my feet will thank me because those lines are ferociously long and the floor is really hard, as so many fans line up and then wait and wait and wait some more for this attraction or that. Yeah my feet will be happy and I will be at the front of any line and with a great view too! You can be sure I will be glued to my computer screen through every moment of the Starcraft 2 development, lore, and game play discussions planned, and we viewers of the live internet stream are also promised some exclusive interviews and discussions. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us. For us watching via the live internet stream it will be an 8 hour gamer orgy without the hangover and noise.

My secret hope there is that the special news will be the Starcraft 2 beta release date, and maybe even the Starcraft 2 release date. However, I would be even happier if they firmed up the Starcraft 2 release date prior to Blizzcon 2009 and started the Starcraft 2 beta (and of course gave me a key). Come on Blizzard, every beta test needs a control group (substitute the term; hopelessly mediocre strategy gamer who still likes to play, for the term control group).

Oh yeah, did I mention that with the live internet stream we also will be getting a murloc? Right, well let’s hope the news makes up for that murloc mmmghl factor – well at least he is a marine. I am sure this Warcraft in-game pet will effectively fend off any spaceship attacking the player by firing his tiny gun into the air.