Pricing for each Pay-Per-View Event is determined by your subscription television operator. Main Event has no control over the pricing of Pay-Per-View-Events.
Subscribers the event will cost;
FOXTEL - $14.95 inc. GST
OPTUS - $14.95 inc. GST
AUSTAR - $14.95 inc. GST
Through a partnership with FOXTEL's MAINEVENT, BlizzCon 2008 will be televised LIVE for the first time ever in Australia, letting gamers watch BlizzCon who are unable to attend the convention. The Pay Per View event will deliver a minimum of eight hours of coverage from the show floor on each day of BlizzCon.
For anyone interested in experiencing the panels, contests, tournaments, and other highlights of BlizzCon from the comfort of their own home, here is what you can expect from the LIVE event coverage.
Multiple cameras will be travelling the show floor to capture the experience of being at BlizzCon, and the coverage will be anchored from a central broadcast desk. The hosts for the show will be Geoff Keighley, Executive Producer and host of Spike's GameTrailers TV, the #1-rated videogame show on US television. Becky ''AKTREZ'' Young, creator and leading lady of the Girls Entertainment Network along with Kat Hunter, General Manager of professional gaming team for the Championship Gaming Series, the San Francisco Optx, and former Frag Doll.
Celebrity guests Patton Oswalt and Jay Mohr will also be appearing. Jay is returning to host the LIVE BlizzCon contests, and Patton will be performing a comedy routine during the closing-night ceremony, which will also feature all-Blizzard rock band Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain. In addition, senior Blizzard Entertainment developers such as Rob Pardo, Jay Wilson, Dustin Browder, and Jeff Kaplan will be rotating in and out of the broadcast desk throughout the day to talk about their work and share their thoughts on the convention as it unfolds.
Viewers will also enjoy a behind-the-scenes tour of the Blizzard Entertainment headquarters and be able to download high-resolution cinematic trailers for upcoming games (with an appropriate DVR).
* PLUS If you order both Event days (October 11 and October 12) you can register to receive the BlizzCon 2008 World of Warcraft in-game polar bear mount with mounted, flag-waving murloc. Everyone will be entitled to this mount once they have registered and been verified by their Subscription TV service provider as having ordered both days.
(Please note Event contents are at the discretion of Blizzcon and DirecTV and are subject to change.)
