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Blizzard Cancels BlizzCon 2024, Promises Return in Future Years - IGN
Blizzard has announced today that it will not be holding its annual BlizzCon event in 2024, but promises the event will make a return in future years.
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IGN: Blizzard Cancels BlizzCon 2024, Promises Return in Future Years
- Thread starter Xando
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I don't get why they don't do a digital only event one year to showcase all the big announcements for their various games and a in-person big event every other year to gather the fans and do big unveilings
Then again some of their announcements are in the MSFT slates now maybe?
Then again some of their announcements are in the MSFT slates now maybe?
I checked the old news and Blizzcon 2023 was the first time the tickets were not sold instantly. But I also remember the high prices :D
Contracts for large venues that can hold huge amounts of people are very expensive and generally have to be signed for multiple years. Most places won't let you alternate.
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the Diablo expansion is delayed.
Yeah, but BlizzCon was always meant to be a gathering of Blizzard game fans and communities. The reveals were secondary. It's kind of a bummer. I know families (plural) that started with community members in different Blizzard games meeting each other in real life at BlizzCon.
I don't know why I keep holding on to hope that there's still some tiny bit of magic left at Blizzard, but I do, and it's always a kick in the balls when they show me otherwise…
Well, yeah lol
They already announced all 3 WoW expansions and the D4 one and canceled the only game that would warrant actually holding a big to event
They already announced all 3 WoW expansions and the D4 one and canceled the only game that would warrant actually holding a big to event
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They'd have some WoW stuff and Diablo at MS showcase in june i guess?
Makes sense but I can already see the blizz community go up in flames
The last time blizzard showed up to Blizzcon with nothing to announce other than D:I it was a fucking disaster
Damn, I would've thought they'd just downscale to be a WoW-specific event for that community before they'd cancel entirely.
Last year was one of the best weeks of my life, but that had far more to do with seeing everyone again for the first time since 2019. It's always been incredibly important to me, socially, and the thought of being bereft of that - again - kind of breaks my heart.
the wow expansion will be out by then, and they probably have little to show of the next one.
Ah had no idea it was coming so soon, thanks for the correction. That does make sense then if they don't even have that.
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Showcasing WoW alongside COD and the other MS stuff sure is going to be weird but i guess that's where we're at now.
Live events are expensive as fuck and I'm sure Blizzcon especially is not cheap. Showing up to announce nothing bigger than a seasonal patch for each game also doesnt exactly sound compelling. I know a lot of people like going just for the social/experience aspect and hopefully they find a way to hold it with an emphasis on that in the future w/o requiring it be a full "Blizzard E3"-like production with marquee announcements.
That makes sense. The dream of blizzcon being a big community hangout in off-years is long over. The whole thing is barely worth doing at all anymore.
I don't think that'd work either. The people who made those games are long gone. The real question is, are there still people at Blizzard who have a Passion regarding anything in blizzards library?
Blizzard needs new ideas like whoa. And they need them yesterday.
It's the issue with conventions in general, despite the pandemic being over they're not back yet. New York Comic Con used to have these awesome as hell free parties sponsored by HBO or NBC or whatever to show off their latest show and there hasn't been a single once since 2019.
Hopefully skipping 2024 means they'll be able to go back to the drawing board for their future shows and fix the problems, because I found the one last year to be pretty disappointing. And not even because of the announcements, I was there for WoW mostly and there was plenty of exciting WoW stuff. It was the way the show was organized and what they had setup to do which were the big problems IMO.
I don't want it to go away forever though. Blizzcon is a lot of fun and when they do it right it makes for an amazing weekend. So hopefully it comes back better than ever when it does.
I don't want it to go away forever though. Blizzcon is a lot of fun and when they do it right it makes for an amazing weekend. So hopefully it comes back better than ever when it does.
Then hire the new ones who are capable. Not reviving a series just because original people are no longer there is a backward thinking.
🫡 anytime, I know it wasn't going to happen. Mega copium.
Seeing some very large streamers this season in particular and last regarding bringing back 6v6. Putting aside how unbalanced and horrible 5v5 has been, the queue times this season has been exponentially worse, across ALL RANKS, with the wide grouping. Been seeing queue times personally over 10 minutes and even had one that lasted 20 minutes. Saw some pros waiting for over a hour. Queue times were the entire main argument why 6v6 had to go and yet they are worse than they have ever been in OW1.
Seagull returned to OW2 last week and played tank for three games and was about to go insane and was begging his group to switch roles or he was going to quit playing.
That sucks. Been awhile but I did enjoying back in the SC2 days. Didn't even care for the announcements. Was fun to watch the tournaments and random talks about aspects of games from Devs.
Oh they sold, they just kept selling them throughout the event last year. It was a complete shit show being there in person that the fire marshalls had to get involved with the amount of people crowding the WarCraft area.
Hopefully 2025 ends up being better and with a different team involved in mapping out the event. Last year was really sparse with stuff to do.