This is a fact!They got 12 million people to pay $60 for a Diablo 3 beta
At least you can sell the goodies for a decent price.
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Unless of course the items are Bind on Account when you purchased the Virtual Ticket. That would suck.
e-sports are free sports.why shouldn't you be able to buy e-tickets for e-sports?
e-sports are free sports.
People in line would ask to buy pets for $40 before I even got the bag. SO MUCH FOR MY LOWER TICKET COSTwoah woah woah
for forty dollars i get not only a banner
but also a portrait in sc2?!?
hold me
Shit I've spent more than I remember.Naw, I have bought GOM streams also. /shrug. Just the one, but still I didn't regret it.
ITT People do not understand that the Blizzcon Virtual ticket does not just give you a random goodie bag, but also gives you the opportunity to have access to ALL the panels, some of which are very entertaining year to year. THAT is what many are paying for.
Valve did it better
$10 for the compendium. Easily $20-50 worth of value.
No one is failing to understand that. There will be media present and anything of actual substance from the panels will be all over the internet in no time. These panels are worth attending in person because you can ask questions of (and often even meet and speak personally with) developers and the like. Their "virtual" value is "virtually" jack shit.
I would honestly respect people more for saying they were buying the ticket for just a vanity pet than a stream of a panel that's going to be an hour or more of farting around for five minutes worth of useful information and maybe a three minute trailer, both of which any competent journalist can distill for them and save everyone a lot of time.
But if they can get people to pay them, more power to them. Again, they aren't being in any way dishonest with the consumer about what they're providing here, so they really are blameless if people buy it anyway.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
No one is failing to understand that. There will be media present and anything of actual substance from the panels will be all over the internet in no time. These panels are worth attending in person because you can ask questions of (and often even meet and speak personally with) developers and the like. Their "virtual" value is "virtually" jack shit.
I would honestly respect people more for saying they were buying the ticket for just a vanity pet than a stream of a panel that's going to be an hour or more of farting around for five minutes worth of useful information and maybe a three minute trailer, both of which any competent journalist can distill for them and save everyone a lot of time.
But if they can get people to pay them, more power to them. Again, they aren't being in any way dishonest with the consumer about what they're providing here, so they really are blameless if people buy it anyway.
Let's see when it happens. There will be a GAF thread. I'll tell you how long it takes me to read the Cliff's notes for any given hour-long panel.
They know people will pay for it.
Hahahahaha XDThey got 12 million people to pay $60 for a Diablo 3 beta
how many people want to see blink 182, a band that hasn't been relevant for almost a decade. the same people who'd want to go to blizzcon i guess.
how many people want to see blink 182, a band that hasn't been relevant for almost a decade. the same people who'd want to go to blizzcon i guess.
They got 12 million people to pay $60 for a Diablo 3 beta
They got 12 million people to pay $60 for a Diablo 3 beta
Yes it is. The International is basically "Dotacon" so to speak. You get all that stuff, fun online events to participate in (like trading player cards to complete teams in your Compendium to upgrade your courier), predictions, fantasy Dota, a battle booster that lasted over two months (basically gets you more frequent and rarer cosmetic items).This isn't even remotely comparable.
edit: I would probably pay $40 for just the SC2 portrait.
This is really gross and I hope it fails miserably
Hey, i got paid for that beta. Thank you AH.
I bought it.
I cant go to Blizzcon, but this way I can see all the panels they have there.
Come at me GAF.
Did you have fun scrambling to pay off that 60 dollars before the game became irrelevant? Blizzard certainly did when they took their cut. :/
Yes, I assume Blizzard will have one free stream as usual, but they're also making sure much of the real good stuff is locked behind the paywall.
I don't either OP
I believe it exists because activision/blizzard
I just don't believe people buy them...
Then again online paywall is a thing and I still can't believe that either
consumers are stupid
ITT People do not understand that the Blizzcon Virtual ticket does not just give you a random goodie bag, but also gives you the opportunity to have access to ALL the panels, some of which are very entertaining year to year. THAT is what many are paying for.
This is not some case of greedy Blizz and dumb Blizz fans. It is fans wanting to see the content that would not be available to them if this ticket were not made.
All of which would only be true if every other game company also charged for access to this kind of stuff. Except thats not the case. You can go watch every panel at each EVE fanfest completely for free. Same for every other company that holds this kind of event that I can think of.