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BlizzCon 2020 Cancelled
- fareesh 6y agoShould do a virtual one and call it "Don't you guys have phones?"
- Jare 6y agoThat was pretty cruel if it's a reference to the Diablo mobile game ruckus a couple years back.
- identity0 6y agoIt is, and it’s pretty funny
- weego 6y agoIt's hilarious how desperate they were for any scrap of product to announce. 18 months+ later and still not a hint of a go live date. I'd not be surprised if Blizzcon stops being annual
- sylens 6y agoThat may have something to do with just how much time it takes to develop new AAA games these days, but you would hope with more live service games that they could do more regular, smaller content drops
- kroltan 6y agoAs far as I understand the mobile Diablo was supposed to be contracted out to another company (Netease). Said company also has a - let's put it this way - very similar game already on the market. So I guess it's even more surprising there haven't been any further news since then. Unless of course, they pivoted the project, to provide a PC version or a different game altogether.
- AbraKdabra 6y agolmao
- Royalaid 6y agoUnsurprising but still sad to see it be officially cancelled. Having gone the last few years and growing up on Blizzard's games it does feel slowly like Blizzard is losing their way and this kind of throws salt in the wound, not that anyone is to blame for this particular situation.
- grawprog 6y ago>it does feel slowly like Blizzard is losing their way Blizzard lost their way on the day they were purchased by Activision. They've been a hollow shell of their former selves since then. The quality and passion of their older games is gone and everything they pump out is a way to milk money from customers. Everything from releasing individual campaigns for StarCraft 2 as standalone titles, to diablo 3's launch nonsense, to the ridiculous phone diablo nonsense. Not to mention just milking the utter fuck out of WoW for well over a decade.
- carpetfizz 6y agoOverwatch was a great post-Activision game. Overwatch 2 on the other hand...seems like a blatant cash grab. We don't know much about it, but it seems like it's introducing new heroes, maps, and new abilities for existing heroes. Maybe that's enough to warrant a "2" in the title, but it sure doesn't feel like it at the moment.
- grawprog 6y agoI have to be honest, i've never tried overwatch and kind of forget it exists, but i just looked it up and it does look pretty fun. I dunno I grew up with blizzard. One of the earliest PC games I remember playing was Warcraft, I still remember being blown away when I seen that box in the computer store. I just devoured the manual the whole way home. I've been addicted to most of their games up through Warcraft 3, I sort of skipped the wow phase. But, all of the sequels i've tried and just the press stuff with blizzard i've kept up with has just left me feeling meh towards them.
- slightwinder 6y ago
- bzb3 6y agoCorruption is a terrible mechanic!
- MaximumMadness 6y agoThere's been a ton of talk around virtual convention start-ups and software, but part of me worries what's going to happen to traditional "cons" like BlizzCon. Much of the innovation is around business/networking, with the exception of organized Discord activities (which dont scale well), its tough for me to imagine an alternative to attending a BlizzCon or PAX in person.
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- coldpie 6y agoI don't think they're permanently gone. Assuming it becomes safe to have large gatherings sometime, they'll come back. You're right that there isn't a way to duplicate that environment online.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoAlthough there are some independent conferences that I'm concerned might simply not survive a disruption of a year or two. If SXSW doesn't happen in 2021, they'll surely go bankrupt, and I don't know how easy it'll be to just spin back up in 2022.
- Kinrany 6y agoThis does sound like something a start-up could solve. Attending a conference from inside a game seems like an interesting hack.
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoThe fact that tickets to traditional cons are often limited which creates exclusivity which expands upon the hype of any announcements demos. The costs involved with a con are obviously a couple orders of magnitude higher than a virtual con, but I don't think the marketing impact is the same at all. Traditional cons are certainly not going away by any means.
- pcdoodle 6y agoFree hong kong!
- ehsankia 6y agoYet TwitchCon which is before Blizzcon has yet to be officially canceled.
- tossAfterUsing 6y agoconvenient, since they were going to have a lot of blowback from their HK stance.
- lol_jono 6y agoI don't think we will be missing out on anything. Blizzard has been creatively bankrupt for a few years now.