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BlizzCon 2024 has been cancelled

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> And we’re thrilled to be planning multiple, global, in-person events to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, which will be held in addition to the in-game celebrations across our Warcraft games throughout 2024.

Odd not to have Blizzcon on WoW's 30th anniversary year. Seems serious.

Warcraft, not world of warcraft.

Warcraft release date: November 15, 1994

Although world of warcraft's release date was November 23, 2004 so the 20th anniversary is at the same time.

Oops, yeah, thx. Either way it's a big anniversary year for their core IP. Really odd not to have a big celebration. Even if they have no major new announcements, just make it a big retro-themed nostalgic event or something.

I think you mean 20th anniversary year?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft

It is 30th anniversary year for Warcraft as a whole though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft

You almost gave me a heart attack.

I regret not being able to go to any of the Fountain Valley Fry's midnight releases that were hosted by the Blizzard dev teams. I wasn't even in high school yet when those were still being held. In hindsight, I think my mom would have been willing to take me to one if I had asked. It was a ten minute drive from home.

I was really sad when that Fry's closed down. Nearly all of my PC gaming purchases came from there and the ACP Swapmeet up until 2006 or so, when I switched to Steam, so it felt like losing a part of my childhood. I haven't visited the location in a while, but I'm assuming it is still empty and fenced off.

Historical overview of the rise and downfall: https://youtu.be/67BFdPVKYjk?si=hVJjzAZAk56N6u0B

They probably don’t have anything to show. They’re just after acquisition and likely right in the middle of reorg. Kotick left a few months ago, management purges are probably in full swing.

Doesn't immediately improve earnings by 20%, doesn't have GenAI.

No buzzwords = no BlizzCon.

Do you not have games?

Quietly disappearing into the night

Hell, it's about time.

I wonder if this is partly because there has been a significant backlash from gamers against various big studios for everything from terms of service dark patterns to digital games being shut down or deleted to controversies around woke editing of games by groups like Sweet Baby. With Blizzard I know many people angered by forced terms of service.

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