World of Warcraft at Ten Ton Hammer

Is there a price tag on fanaticism? What will a person spend to prove that they are a true fan? Without a doubt, that question can probably be answered by one of the 15,000 individuals that crowded into the Anaheim Convention Center this last weekend for BlizzCon 2008. Ten Ton Hammer's very own John "Boomjack" Hoskin was in the middle of that seething crowd, and he makes his own judgment on the entire event, which includes a dog-humping analogy. Intrigued? Read on!

BlizzCon stretches the full height, width and depth of the game fanaticism spectrum. 15,000 tickets at $100 each is 1.5 million dollars. The convention center, the setup staff, the equipment all the staff hours spent planning surely don't equate to that much, or do they? Perhaps they do, but even so, one astute fan who stood in line at the store for over two and a half hours deduced that if each person rolling through the store spent $100 that Blizz was receiving approximately $30,000 an hour from souvenir sales.

To read the rest of Boomjack's BlizzCon impressions, click here!