It seems like there's some more exclusive content in WOW, this time, it looks like it's for participants in Blizzard's Invitational Tournament in Korea. A broken-one vendor has appeared near the mana loom in Shattrath's Lower City area with his golden pig, Lucky. Similar to the 2005 Blizzcon exclusive pet, baby "I'm so freaking cute" murloc, players are prompted to enter a unique code to access their 24 karat walking bacon ration. In the pic above, you'll see my character, Ershin engaging in a lengthy staring contest with the little porker....however, the pig was cute specced, and I lost in the end.
I've been rather pleased with a lot of the other, more "accessible" exclusive content that Blizzard has been tossing in the game. This is namely done through the World of Warcraft trading card game by Upper Deck, which is basically...Magic the Gathering with a WoW theme. The "stack" mechanic is even completely replicated, except now it's called the "chain", ooooooooooooo. Players can get special items in-game that they can redeem via the unique code on these cards. Rewards include a riding turtle that increases mount speed by 0%....awesome, and also a picnic set that creates food that gives a "tastes great, does nothing" buff.
Here's a pic of the riding turtle, how cute is that?
I'd really like to see some more of these unique items, as I have yet to come across any on my server. Perhaps there would be another way to make these aesthetically pleasing rewards more accessible to players without assloads of money to blow on a CCG, however....I highly doubt it given the corporate steamroller that is Blizzard.
Now, it's just a question of what the unique pet for Blizzcon 2007 is? More Murlocs? I sure hope so, and on that note, is anyone else going to Blizzcon this year? If so, send me an email, we should get together and bust some chops in the arena! For the Horde!