Turpster at the World Wide Invitational: Meet and greet in the queue

by Amanda Dean Jun 28th 2008 at 5:10AM

People are lining up out the door, down the street and around the corner at the Porte de Versailles Exposition Center in Paris, France. Our beloved Turpster visited with several of the Blizzard fans waiting in line to get into the convention in time for the opening event. This video captures the excitement in the air as WoW players and other Blizzard fans from around Europe and the United States gather in anticipation. The fans in attendance are making their own predictions for Blizzard's big announcement. Diablo 3? Lost Vikings? Wrath? All of the above?

Stay tuned, Turpster and the rest of the WoW Insider staff are devoted to keeping you posted on the latest breaking news.

Tags: anticipation, convention-hall, lines, mark-turpin, queues, turpster, turpster-vision, waiting, world-wide-invitatio..., world-wide-invitational-2008, wwi, wwi-paris, wwi08, wwii

Filed under: Events, Fan stuff, WoW Social Conventions, Blizzard, Interviews, Worldwide Invitational

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SpaceDog Jun 28th 2008 5:39AM

Turp is kinda cute.

amanda dean Jun 28th 2008 5:45AM

I never delete comments, but man. I should delete this one before Turpster sees it. It will so go to his head. He'll have to get to train seats on the way home.

SpaceDog Jun 28th 2008 5:50AM

It's ok - I'm a guy. He's probably not interested. XD

chris Jun 28th 2008 5:54AM

bah when is this live streaming thing gonna start, I'm getting impatient. 8 minutes late now...

vlad Jun 28th 2008 1:45PM

This is a shame. I know it cost around £200-£300 for a round trip on the Eurostar from London to Paris. Add to that the hotels and foods and taxis and WWI fees (press pass probably is free) and maybe even purchasing a camera and puffy microphone sponge.

hes a nice kid and has a good personality but someone really needs to be with him to hold the camera. these videos are extremely hard to watch and honestly due to that, I just skip them.

Now before you all bitch at me realize this..

WowInsider is (probably) paying this kid for a product they can put on this extremely popular website.

Someone took the care and thought to get an external microphone and wind screen. It shows they were carefully thinking and planned ahead to get great audio with no pops, wind noise and nerd breath (and the videos do sound great btw). Sadly its all trumped by the roller coaster video quality.

Turpster,
you have a good opportunity here. Don't waste it. Your content is good but you really need to think out your production quality. get one of the 10,000 girls your going to end up waking up with in the morning to hold the camera for you tomorrow.

Now people, before you just read this and react with a harsh comment without thinking, read it again and think about what I am saying. I'm trying to help not insult or complain.

Hugz and kisses

~Vlad

Addie Jun 29th 2008 11:05AM

Vlad, you're silly. That's like saying WoW graphics could be more realistic. Of course he could have done it like CNN or something... but amateur shaky cam is a design decision. It's a fun video. Turpster makes me smile, every time. All those fresh faced young'uns in line made me smile too. *grins*