Far too expensive in this day and age.
I wouldnt pay $5 for it...but to each their own. Obviously people are buying it, and their accountants feel that price-point is best, so I won't judge. Ill watch it for free elsewhere.
Free-To-Play is the future.
It's not mandatory to buy it and it really is a fair amount in my opinion for something blizzard really don't have to give to us. You can get all the info and trailers etc from MMO-Champ so your not really missing out.
I personally did get the ticket because I'm looking forward to sitting down and fanboying over all the new stuff as it happens and I look at it like this, for me to go to america and get a hotel, food etc etc is a little more than $40 even if u live in america I suspect
It's not too expensive. It's cheaper than 1 WWE event. If you can't find 40 dollars to spend on this, you don't deserve to watch it live. Wait for the illegal youtube video to get posted.
The stream just like all of blizzards services are not required but a bonus to anyone who wishes to use them.
If you do not agree with the price then don't pay for it. everything that is on the stream will be updated across the internet within mins of it being said and turned into a TL;DR text anyway.
Find a friend who has the stream and ask them to stream the stream and set it up with a password or share screen on skype with someone.
You're only missing out on the in game pet and achievement by not paying.
Christ if $40 is cheap for a stream how much does it cost for a ticket to the actual event? $40 is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination for a stream of what is a massive game advert. It's funny how nobody paid any money for the stream of the PS4 or Xbone announcements, or coverage from other gaming events.
Blizzard is bending you over and bumraping you and you're taking it willingly.
Probably running on a Pentium 4
To some, no it is worth it but to me the event is nothing more than a marketing and PR exercise, so why would I pay them money for them to advertise their new games to me. The virtual ticket is a shocking amount of money.
Sony didn't charge for their stream because they didn't pay for e3, Blizzcon is entirely self-funded
they were funded by in-game purchases, Blizzard could certainly have gone the route of adding limited time Blizzcon-funding items to the store but they chose to use this one instead
which also supplies in-game items, coincidentally
Last edited by Imnick; 2013-11-05 at 11:45 AM.
I thought the price was good, I bought a virtual ticket
I'm just saying I think it is too much considering I'll actually buy the next WoW expansion for equal or less and get much more enjoyment out of it for a much longer period and maybe they could split it up into sections for each audience who want info on a specific game for $15. Not complaining, just curious as to what people think.
You're paying 40 dollars for commercials, sounds overpriced as fuck to me