Blizzard has determined to cancel this yr’s BlizzCon. The corporate states the occasion will return sooner or later, nevertheless it plans to showcase upcoming video games in a unique method over the approaching months.
First introduced in a weblog submit, Blizzard plans to share particulars on upcoming video games like World of Warcraft: The Battle Inside and Diablo IV’s Vessel of Hatred enlargement at different commerce reveals, similar to Gamescom. The corporate additionally plans to launch “a number of, international, in-person occasions” for Warcraft’s thirtieth anniversary, that are described as being “distinct” from BlizzCon.
“Our hope is that these experiences – alongside a number of live-streamed trade occasions the place we’ll hold you updated with what’s occurring in our sport universes – will seize the essence of what makes the Blizzard group so particular,” Blizzard states within the weblog submit.
A Blizzard consultant tells Home windows Central that Blizzard made the decision to cancel BlizzCon and never Microsoft, which accomplished its acquisition of the corporate final yr. In a press release to the outlet, the consultant says, “This can be a Blizzard resolution. We now have explored totally different occasion codecs up to now, and this is not the primary time we’re skipping BlizzCon or attempting one thing new. Whereas we have now nice issues to share in 2024, the timing simply doesn’t line up for one single occasion on the finish of the yr.”
BlizzCon started in 2005 as an annual conference celebrating all issues Blizzard. Final yr’s present noticed the reveal of World of Warcraft’s subsequent enlargement, The Battle Inside, in addition to two different expansions coming after it. It is good that occasion is just taking a yr off versus being canned for good, and we’re curious to see how the choice occasions form up over the approaching months.
