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11-24-2009, 01:22 PM
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The good folks at the Orange County Register got invited to Blizzard's official WoW anniversary party that took place last Thursday on their Irvine campus, and their report is now posted (http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2009/11/22/happy-birthday-world-of-warcraft-blizzard-celebrates/27349/). It sounds like quite the event -- lots of free food and beer, head honchos regaling employees with their tales of the early days, and Rob Pardo suggesting that just like geek culture helped define this game, this game might help define geek culture going forward.
The picture gallery included with the piece (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/years-220523-blizzard-celebrate.html?pic=1) is a good browse, too -- you can see all of the Blizzard heavyweights hanging out together, and the great spread set up on the campus. The Register's also been asking Blizzard about their memories of the game -- they've got more memories from Samwise (http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2009/11/22/memories-of-warcraft-from-the-people-who-built-it/27383/), launch day stories from Shane Dabiri (http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2009/11/22/blizzards-lead-producer-remembers-the-eve-of-wow/27523/), and some thoughts from Pardo and Frank Pearce (http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2009/11/22/wow-memories-from-a-designer-and-a-co-founder/27533/) (who, strangely enough, at first didn't believe that Blizzard belonged in a hardcore niche market like MMO gaming -- he didn't want to make "a game that never ended," he says). All good stuff. Congrats once again to Blizzard on five years, good to see they celebrated in style.Filed under: Events (http://www.wow.com/category/events/), Fan stuff (http://www.wow.com/category/fan-stuff/), Virtual selves (http://www.wow.com/category/virtual-selves/), Blizzard (http://www.wow.com/category/blizzard/), News items (http://www.wow.com/category/news-items/), Galleries (http://www.wow.com/category/galleries/)
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The good folks at the Orange County Register got invited to Blizzard's official WoW anniversary party that took place last Thursday on their Irvine campus, and their report is now posted (http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2009/11/22/happy-birthday-world-of-warcraft-blizzard-celebrates/27349/). It sounds like quite the event -- lots of free food and beer, head honchos regaling employees with their tales of the early days, and Rob Pardo suggesting that just like geek culture helped define this game, this game might help define geek culture going forward.
The picture gallery included with the piece (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/years-220523-blizzard-celebrate.html?pic=1) is a good browse, too -- you can see all of the Blizzard heavyweights hanging out together, and the great spread set up on the campus. The Register's also been asking Blizzard about their memories of the game -- they've got more memories from Samwise (http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2009/11/22/memories-of-warcraft-from-the-people-who-built-it/27383/), launch day stories from Shane Dabiri (http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2009/11/22/blizzards-lead-producer-remembers-the-eve-of-wow/27523/), and some thoughts from Pardo and Frank Pearce (http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2009/11/22/wow-memories-from-a-designer-and-a-co-founder/27533/) (who, strangely enough, at first didn't believe that Blizzard belonged in a hardcore niche market like MMO gaming -- he didn't want to make "a game that never ended," he says). All good stuff. Congrats once again to Blizzard on five years, good to see they celebrated in style.Filed under: Events (http://www.wow.com/category/events/), Fan stuff (http://www.wow.com/category/fan-stuff/), Virtual selves (http://www.wow.com/category/virtual-selves/), Blizzard (http://www.wow.com/category/blizzard/), News items (http://www.wow.com/category/news-items/), Galleries (http://www.wow.com/category/galleries/)
Blizzard celebrates the WoW anniversary (http://www.wow.com/2009/11/24/blizzard-celebrates-the-wow-anniversary/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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