BlizzCon 2010

Ok, so it's no secret to anybody who plays Blizzard's games that BlizzCon 2010 started today at about 1pm (Central).  Generally there is some huge announcement or cool bit of information released in the first 30 minutes of it.  Last year it was Cataclysm (even though MMO-Champion released virtually all of the information days ahead of the convention), and the year before it was StarCraft 2.  So, when this years festivities got under way people seemed to have such high hopes for something really cool (new MMO maybe?).  Guess what?  Nothing cool and interesting was announced this year; exactly as I had predicted.  I have been saying it for weeks, and with the reveal of the Cataclysm cinematic during the Vikings - Cowboys game last weekend there really wasn't anything really 'cool' left to show.

DOTA for StarCraft 2?  Big freakin' deal.  Nobody really cares, and in my opinion DOTA as a custom maps is not worth the time with games like League of Legends and now with Valve working on their own game, DOTA 2, I really do not think people give two hoots about a new DOTA map for SC2.  I'll concede that there is probably some sort of nostalgic value to the game, but I think people expect a bit more out of it now other than the restrictions of a custom campaign file for the game.  Now, I'm sure there are still more details to come, and people will get all ooey-gooey over it since it's a Blizzard game and it's on SC2, but I'm just not that excited for it.  It looks to me like they are just trying to get some of the people who only play WC3 for DOTA to buy SC2...yay milking the masses?

Hopefully there is some cool stuff released about 4.1 during the Dungeons and Raids panel later today...