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    John Keefer posted a new article, Give us your best Blizzard stories; win a copy of Stay Awhile and Listen.

    Some developers create games. Others, such as Blizzard Entertainment and Blizzard North, create experiences that stick with us forever. Millions of gamers have commanded armies and raided dungeons across the world of Warcraft, waged intergalactic warfare amid StarCraft's galaxies, and chased Diablo into the pits of hell (or more recently, the high heavens). Some of us have spent dozens of hours playing Blizzard games, others hundreds. No matter your level of fandom, DM Press wants to hear your b
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    John Keefer posted a new article, Give us your best Blizzard stories; win a copy of Stay Awhile and Listen.

    Some developers create games. Others, such as Blizzard Entertainment and Blizzard North, create experiences that stick with us forever. Millions of gamers have commanded armies and raided dungeons across the world of Warcraft, waged intergalactic warfare amid StarCraft's galaxies, and chased Diablo into the pits of hell (or more recently, the high heavens). Some of us have spent dozens of hours playing Blizzard games, others hundreds. No matter your level of fandom, DM Press wants to hear your b : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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    • Let's hear those stories, Shack! : David Craddock
    • When I was about 10 years old, I saw a friend of mine playing Warcraft 2 on his family's PC. It blew my f : Firefly1985
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      I liked war wind more than warcraft. There, I said it, it's out in the open. : ryuusekiThis person is cool!
      • I'm here to support you. : David Craddock
    • I never got into the Blizzard craze, but I am curious to read this book to understand how the Blizzard cr... : u sir nameThis person is cool!
    • Most of my blizzard memories are from World of Warcraft. During the Wrath of the Lich King expansion a gr... : OutragerThis person is cool!
    • What I think back on fondly for Diablo 1 was the mystery of it all. There were items like The Thinking Ca : ahleeThis person is cool!
    • Excellent stories so far. Keep them coming! : David Craddock
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      Starcraft 2 was the first multiplayer game I ever played on the internet. To think that I was "playing w... : flagg209
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        Just so I'm clear, you meant StarCraft 1 in the first sentence, correct? The rest of your story indicates... : David Craddock
        • Yes Dave...it was SC1 : flagg209
    • When WC3 came out, I used to play tons, mostly night elf cause I'm fruity like that, and I started doing : DewFuel
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      blizzard is one of the most over hyped studios, possibly second only to Bethesda, despite producing extre... : pizzaput
      • And I mean to say that war3 was a product of the lacking latter day blizzard, not the former rendition of... : pizzaput
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        I'm with you, see my post below. : bigimpThis person is cool!
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          The last positive Blizzard experiences that stuck with me were Warcraft 2 and Diablo 2. Unfortunately, th... : pizzaput
          • I'm not even going to go into the disaster that is Diablo 3. Glad I got my refund on that. Isn't it funny... : pizzaput
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      Warcraft 2 was the first Blizzard game I played and the first game I played multiplayer on. I started pl... : FreshwaterAU
      • haha, both those stories are hilarious : ahleeThis person is cool!
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      I've posted this before, and it's only relateable to people who were hardcore into Diablo 2 post 1.10 : bipolarThis person is cool!
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        fucking lol that so totes sucks hard. : RogerDandyThis person is cool!
        • Totes : abrasionThis person is cool!
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        haha, did you do a Vader noooooooooooooooooooooooo? : ahleeThis person is cool!
        • I was really confused why it didn't 'become' the runeword. Maybe battle.net glitched? Maybe logging out ... : bipolarThis person is cool!
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      My story: I used to really enjoy Blizzard games (starting from Lost Bikings and Blackthorne back in '93, ... : bigimpThis person is cool!
      • Err, Lost Vikings. : bigimpThis person is cool!
    • Back when I was in high school, WoW was released. A friend of mine was seriously into WC3, and he practic... : Ambient80
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      Earlier this year i went on a snowboarding trip with some buddies to New Zealand. On our second day on th... : SigENeaT
      • Huhuhu im so funny. Here is a gaming one: A few mates and i loved to play Diablo 2 for many hours at a t... : SigENeaT
    • A bump for evening readers. Keep the great stories coming! : David Craddock
    • By and far, my favorite game is the Diablo series! I remember my buddy John called me up one night and sa... : BigPoppi 68
    • I had been playing the Diablo demo for a while on our Pentium 1 PC. Then one day I came home from school : Marrbe
    • starcraft was the game that got me hooked on pc games. spent an entire night downloading the demo off a ... : not5am
    • I used to play Lost Vikings on 2 player mode by myself, for double the strategy. : Alexrose
    • I was around 12 years old when my neighbor lent me his copy of Warcraft, the first real-time strategy gam... : lord_omegaThis person is cool!
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      I played Diablo 2 only a few years ago as part of my "play all the classics" campaign, this was after I p... : Mystery0000
      • Best. Story. Ever. : Alexrose
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      PC Gaming has almost exclusively been centered around Blizzard for me. I don't come from a huge amount of... : SaucyFellow
      • Oops. I didn't notice the character limit xD : SaucyFellow
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      The contest is now CLOSED to submissions. Thanks to all who entered! : David Craddock
      • Did I miss who won this? : FreshwaterAU