BlizzCon barcodes being sent out
by Adam Holisky 
Jul 30th 2009 at 12:10PM
The barcode system is a new one for Blizzard. You will need to print out the email you receive and bring the barcode with you when you pick up your badge at the convention hall. We highly recommend picking up your badge the day before (Thursday) so you can enjoy waiting in long lines to get into the place on Friday morning for the opening ceremony.
You should receive a separate email and separate barcode for each person for whom you bought a ticket for. My tickets are going to a few WoW.com staff members, and the first of them came through this morning. Another email came this afternoon.
Initially we were not going to run this story until we heard from Blizzard directly that these emails were real and legit, however a very large number of people are reporting receiving their barcodes. The barcode email comes from pnmi.com, which is not a blizzard.com address.
Because of this we have contacted and are waiting for Blizzard to verify the email. We'll update this post when we hear back from them. I find it perplexing that Blizzard would drum into our heads for years telling us only to trust a blizzard.com source, and then have a massive email sent out that isn't from blizzard.com without telling us about its legitimacy before hand.
Update: Blizzard has confirmed these emails are legit.
So check your email and check your spam folders! My guess is that sending out all the badges will take a day or so.
Filed under: News items, BlizzCon
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
ackthbbft Jul 30th 2009 12:28PM
I got my e-mail just before coming here to see if it was being reported.
See ya in 3 weeks!! :D
Manatank Jul 30th 2009 1:14PM
Just got mine as well. I wonder how well trolling works IRL?
catharsis80 Jul 30th 2009 12:31PM
Wow. Seeing that image on the front page of wow.com -- a pleasant surprise it was NOT.
Invierna Jul 30th 2009 12:37PM
Are you serious? That girl on the right is drop-dead gorgeous. I want her to have my half-elf babies.
catharsis80 Jul 30th 2009 1:00PM
Are YOU serious? She dressed up as something she's not, and probably looks totally different when dressed normally anyway.
But gratz on the caveman-ish outlook on reproduction.
musicjunkie300 Jul 30th 2009 1:03PM
@invierna: I would say the girl on the right is already in the proccess of producing some half-elf babies....
Ktok Jul 30th 2009 1:08PM
There's nothing wrong with dressing up.
That said, I don't think she's all that good looking personally. Her face is very... sharp...
Manatank Jul 30th 2009 1:45PM
People in costume? Barf.
catharsis80 Jul 30th 2009 1:47PM
Wow, voted down twice. I guess I've learned not to mess with people playing dress up.
catharsis80 Jul 30th 2009 1:51PM
On second thought, that was a jerk-ish thing to say...which makes me....yeah.
My apologies. :(
Jessie Jul 30th 2009 2:34PM
Both Raine and Atheana are both beautiful ladies in real life and they have amazing costumes.. stop being such jerk wads and get over yourselves....
Manatank Jul 30th 2009 3:00PM
"Both Raine and Atheana are both beautiful ladies in real life"
Who cares what they look like? They dressed up as elves. Lame.
Zachery Egan Jul 30th 2009 7:06PM
Well, it's just your opinion that they are beautiful IRL, it is others opinions that if you are gonna LARP/COSplay you might not want to slouch and push your belly out in the pic.
Neither girl is bad looking, solid 7's if we want to use neanderthal 1-10 systems to objectify women, which since they played skimpy dress up I do.
SuckItTrebek Jul 31st 2009 1:24AM
"Raine and Atheana"?! There you go, gentlemen, regardless of whether or not the women are hot, they are clearly batshit insane and still juvenile-they go by dramatic self appointed nicknames. I'll fuck a high school girl when I want to deal with a high school girl's mentality, and she'll be firmer than either of them.
Cheese Rations Jul 30th 2009 12:37PM
I don't see how dangerous these barcodes could be, even if fake, unless the email is asking users to click through to a website and enter personal information. Don't do this, obviously, but if it's just a barcode how bad could it really be?
Adam Holisky Jul 30th 2009 12:42PM
If they are fake and even if only 3,000 people bring them up to the ticket counters and try to use them, it would cause a gigantic problem - it would take people extremely long to get their tickets and create a lot of confusion.
That's the exact kind of chaos script kiddies like to cause.
Antgrog Jul 30th 2009 12:46PM
pmni.com is registered to
Paragon New Media, Inc.
1293 Sumerlin Dr
Tallahassee, FL32304
US
It is probably legit.
Antgrog Jul 30th 2009 12:52PM
typo, I meant pnmi.com
nikkif00 Jul 30th 2009 1:09PM
Googling PNMI came up with their website ... here's the info section: http://www.pnmi.com/main/overview.cfm
jfofla Jul 30th 2009 1:10PM
Thanks for the heads up!
Of course, AOL sent it directly to the spam folder, so I had to rescue it.