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by Allison Robert 
Oct 20th 2011 at 8:00PM
The annual WoW Insider reader meet-up should be on in just a few short moments! This year we've teamed up with Wowhead, Members of ZAM Network, TankSpot and WoW Interface to bring you the biggest and best meet-up we've ever done. For all those of us who couldn't make it to BlizzCon this year, don't worry: Gamebreaker.tv will be livestreaming the event with professional lighting, mics, and cameras, and Gary Gannon, Josh Allen (better known as Lore), and Mike B. will co-host with Mike Sacco and Anne Stickney.
As always, you can expect a number of special guests, interviews, and prize giveaways, viewer questions answered over the stream, and possibly the sight of a few staffers passed out in the bushes if we're lucky.
The online chat for the event is just past the cut!
Turn to WoW Insider for all your BlizzCon 2011 news and information. Get ready to kick off the weekend with the WoW Insider Reader Meetup, cohosted by Wowhead and Gamebreaker.tv, and look for our liveblogs of the convention panels, interviews with WoW celebrities -- and of course, lots of pictures of people in costumes. It's all here at WoW Insider!
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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 4)
Shinae Oct 21st 2011 10:21AM
/envy
I'm thinking Sacco's hair has some sort of mystical qualites to which people are drawn to rub for good luck. Like Buddha's belly.
Yoyo Oct 21st 2011 2:05AM
Although it started out well, the livestream ended up as a disaster IMO. Too many cooks in the kitchen perhaps. Anne and Mike Sacco - I normally LOVE you guys, but tonight made me consider no longer listening to your podcasts/read your posts. It was so rude the way you "uninvited" people mid-sentence, while you kept that short actor guy there forever, when he had absolutely nothing to do with Wow. Hell - you even invited his 10 year old kid to join, while Gamebreaker hosts had nowhere to sit and too little participation. You should take notes and learn from Gamebreaker.tv , as they generally know how to put on a professional stream/production.
And sacco... seriously.. talking about your hair (!!) and about how you're a celebrity makes you look like a fool, and interupting a highly promoted event to let girls "stroke your hair" is creepy and gross, and a huge turnoff from Wow Insider in general.
Xiahnti Oct 21st 2011 2:26AM
Wow...you're a little ray of sunshine, aren't you.
Yoyo Oct 21st 2011 2:30AM
let the down voting begin. It is my honest opinion, and I wouldn't have posted it if I wasn't very disappointed.
Buddha8888 Oct 21st 2011 2:34AM
I pretty much agree but I give them all a pass because everyone there is probably HAMMERED by now. I mean come on forgive the guy for being a little flirty and ego'd up by alcohol. Also its part of being a showman, a good host quality. That said, better guest time scheduling should have happened. DS9 guy w/ the kid had no real reason to be there especially comparatively. Also better communication about stream fixing after it went down would have been great. Like I said though, alcohol makes mistakes for you :p
Xiahnti Oct 21st 2011 2:53AM
Not downvoting anything. I am grouchy after encountering all the jerkwards in that chat room that were howling their outrage to the heavens about jesse cox being interrupted and asked to move and insulting everyone under the sun because of it.
Your comment is leaning that way.
I'm a fan of the guy too, but WOW...that behavior was pretty gross.
anyway! I thought the stream, before it's untimely demise, was a fun time.
trefpoid Oct 21st 2011 3:21AM
I thought it was fun, but I thought it was horrible how they uninvited people.. it was really rude and I wanted to listen to this Crendor fellow. It started great and went downhill until they had the broadcasting issue. What disturbed me most, IMO, was that people wanted to say stuff and as soon as they started talking, they were interrupted by whoever was asking the questions and in the end they almost couldn't talk. That was sad :( I think next year they shouldn't have booze when broadcasting. I'm sure that didn't favour them at all.
Drakkenfyre Oct 21st 2011 4:00AM
Crendor's talking amounted to this.
"Hey, tell us who you are."
"I'm Crendor"
"You do videos. Tell us, for the people who want to know more about you, what can they look up?" (paraphrashing.)
"Well, they can look up how to win at guilds and achievements, or how to win at this, or how to win at that, anything how to win with WoW at the end."
"Great. (insert some chat which I forget.)"
"Can you do the Gogogo guy for us?"
Crendor: "Gogogo!"
"Great!"
(Other guest talks to him for about 2 minutes.)
Crendor then sits there for about 10 minutes, being ignored, while other people are talking.
Then someone (forget if it was Mike or Anne) talks in his ear, and he gets up, and leaves.
Oxhorn got it a little better. I started watching again a little after he was on, but after talking to him for a few minutes, the subject changed to someone else, and then he just sat there for awhile, had another couple of minutes of talk, then they asked him to give his seat up.
There was also about 10 minutes of absolute impossible to hear interviews because the chat channel started playing techno like it did when they weren't doing anything, and it was playing over the audio, and you couldn't hear anything.
Alex Ziebart Oct 21st 2011 4:14AM
I'd like to note that the vast majority of the people on our VIP list didn't show up until the second half of the party, so we had very few people available to put at the livestream table early on, and then way too many to seat later. We unfortunately don't control when people show up, all we can do is work with what we've got.
And Aron Eisenberg is one of the nicest dudes you'll meet, don't be haters.
darkjapheth Oct 21st 2011 2:28AM
Wow, those prize giveaways were awesome.
LytLady Oct 21st 2011 2:28AM
Woot.. i was there,
LytLady Oct 21st 2011 2:41AM
Woot.. I was there.. The Wrath of the Lich.. seriously?
Fletcher Oct 21st 2011 2:55AM
Is it just me or did the stream stop of a sudden?
Siong Oct 21st 2011 4:08AM
Not to play devil's advocate, but a stream like this might have had a producer trying to keep the seats revolving with guests, resulting in some awkward comings and goings.
Then there's the fact that this stream is way more advanced than previous year's resulting in some general growing pains about how to handle everything.
And alcohol, of course.
It wasn't perfect but I enjoyed having it on in the background. Next year should (hopefully) run much smoother.
Drakkenfyre Oct 21st 2011 5:55AM
More advanced, definitely.
The first time, it was a laptop with a webcam, hooked up to the hotel's shitty Wi-Fi, with everyone in chat screaming at people who got in the way (would stand there in front of the webcam, blocking everything), or screaming at the guy controlling the laptop that the mic had gone dead, and we couldn't hear anyone talking. This was when the WI-Fi wasn't dropping constantly, or lagging bad.
It was a little disappointing that we didn't have a screen scrolling the chat so people could walk up, and see what people were saying, and give shoutouts and such.
ravyncat Oct 21st 2011 4:52AM
My main criticism is the fifteen minute breaks with terrible music and the wide angle camera that had lights pointing right into. From a technical perspective, that was just terrible. That wide angle party/crowd camera should have been set somewhere else. Granted I realize it was a packed patio and there likely weren't many other places it could be put without causing issues. But gah...that awful shot was something you learn NOT to do in the very basic of TV classes.
Ditto the muted mic issues. I know all that stuff was likely rented, but they should have used tape and a sharpie to number each mic and to also number the faders on the mixer. That way you always know what mic is hot etc.
I think ultimately the lack of people who knew how to actually put a TV-type broadcast on hurt it a lot.
Instead of having a host at the table switch cameras and run mics, they should have had one dedicated person do it.
Overall though it was very fun to see. I skipped out during the second fifteen minute break because it was late and whatever the hell "music" they were playing was just awful. I am way too old to appreciate it, I guess. XD
Drakkenfyre Oct 21st 2011 5:58AM
I laughed during one of the interviews, when the channel for some reason started playing the music again, and we couldn't hear anything, and people in chat we're saying,
"wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub"
Mocking the music.
ravyncat Oct 21st 2011 9:15AM
The chat was so terrible that I had it turned off.
I did not like the constant mean comments I saw within the first two minutes or so--it reminded me of Trade Chat which I always leave at first opportunity.
I have to wonder who picked that music though and thought it was a good idea. That is the sort of weird thing that has a small genre appeal and party music should appeal to everyone in my opinion.
But I am old...and cranky because I was up most of the night watching. XD
Goarther Oct 21st 2011 7:08AM
Was the live stream recorded so we can rewatch it? I only got to see about 40 mins due to working late and needing to sleep. It was great to put faces to voices (ANNE!) and listen to the Cryptozoic dude
NuSuey Oct 21st 2011 9:13AM
Goarther: check this link out http://www.justin.tv/gamebreakertv/b/297965639
its all 4h 51min of the broadcast