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BlizzCon, DirecTV, Bears!

Seriously, what's up with MMOs and bears?

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Echoing yesterday's story about EA's beary special Red Alert 3/Warhammer Online preorder bonus, DirecTV announced earlier today that it will be broadcasting live coverage of BlizzCon as a special pay-per-view event, and that the people who buy the PPV event will get an exclusive polar bear mount for World of Warcraft, complete with a BlizzCon-flag-waving murloc. I'll gladly admit that this is of interest to me only because of the apparent ursine-mania that's sweeping MMOs right now, though I imagine the Venn diagram of People Who Would Pay to Watch BlizzCon on Their Television Sets and People Who Would Get Really Excited About a World of Warcraft Polar Bear Mount to be a single, perfect circle.

Like the old Icelandic fishing fable says, bears always come in threes, so expect to see Richard Garriott announce his plans to fight a bear on the moon later this week.

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MasturbatingBear

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Edited By MasturbatingBear

BEARS ARE FUCKING AWESOME.

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Edited By Monty344

I would pay to see Richard Garriot fight pretty much anything, but only if it was on the moon.

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they're doing it wrong!

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Edited By gosukiller

My god...
Steven Colbert was right all along!

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Edited By Torb

So I was totally eating some Cinnamon Toast Crunch while I was reading this, and the last paragraph made me start laughing uncontrollably just as I put a spoonful in my mouth. Upon looking at the picture and caption, I couldn't keep the milk in my mouth x.x

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  "Like the old Icelandic fishing fable says, bears always come in threes"

WORD!!........ Although it's actually gonna be Richard Branson who's fighting a bear on Venus, not Garriot on the moon

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Edited By ItsPozer

I already have one bear mount...dont need another

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Edited By Xeno

I'm not a World of WarCraft fan, I want to see StarCraft 2 stuff.
So I would imagine there's a very small offset to that second circle.

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Edited By Milkman

By the way, there is already a bear mount in World of Warcraft.

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So, basically, $40 for a bear mount?... I'll pass.

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Edited By Crono

Fuck the bear mount, I want a murloc mount that has a little polar bear with a blizzcon flag

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Edited By chililili

To the bear forums!

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Edited By UrFaceIzDum

We need to make this Richard Garriot vs. Wild Bear thing happen. Somebody contact  NASA about using a space shuttle.

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LOL@YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG

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Richard Garriot vs. Polar Bear, now that's a paper view I'd pay to see. Somebody make that happen.

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The bear looks like he's having gay sex with that guy! LOL

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Edited By FLStyle

@MattBodega:

You didn't just say ... oh, you did ... oh dear.

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Edited By Bear

They should throw a bear into every MMO, no matter how awkward it would be to place one there.
It would instantly make even the worst of MMO's awesome.

Here's hoping APB has bears.

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Already happened Bear.

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The NUMBER ONE threat to America:

BEARS!!

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i would kill to see Richard Garriot kickbox a polar bear on the moon.

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If you bought that Madden Pay Per View....then...I don't know. I don't think Giant Bomb, as a website, can save you.
You'd just be so unBEARable.

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Did anyone ever buy that Madden pay-per-view thing?

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Bears are cool.

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Edited By comradecrash

:P A bear mount for WoW...I laugh but someone just screamed in excitement! I love that pic with the polar bear!

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Edited By MasterSplinter

I want a polar bear mount!.. or do I?

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Edited By mattbodega

It's BEAR WEEK ON GIANT BOMB DOT COM!
And we're just getting stated! Really! We've Bearly done anything!

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Edited By Ryan  Staff
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG
Echoing yesterday's story about EA's beary special Red Alert 3/Warhammer Online preorder bonus, DirecTV announced earlier today that it will be broadcasting live coverage of BlizzCon as a special pay-per-view event, and that the people who buy the PPV event will get an exclusive polar bear mount for World of Warcraft, complete with a BlizzCon-flag-waving murloc. I'll gladly admit that this is of interest to me only because of the apparent ursine-mania that's sweeping MMOs right now, though I imagine the Venn diagram of People Who Would Pay to Watch BlizzCon on Their Television Sets and People Who Would Get Really Excited About a World of Warcraft Polar Bear Mount to be a single, perfect circle.

Like the old Icelandic fishing fable says, bears always come in threes, so expect to see Richard Garriott announce his plans to fight a bear on the moon later this week.