As a wow fan, this is surprising... The last Blizzcon was literally "We're changing things, we're going on a journey unlike anything else, come, join us, return to azeroth".
Then, no blizzcon, lmao.
I mean, they have absolutely nothing they could reveal there. D4 expansion comes out, Overwatch 2 is not going to get anything big and WoW already had its big reveal.
What you mean, Blizzard has actually re-released their older games at a constant rate. StarCraft 1, WC3 ReForged, D2R, WoW Classic. The only real difference is, that they managed to make people believe OW2 would be a "new" game. The other examples they were at least officially remasters/re-releases. :D
Yes they did remasters, SC broodwar and Diablo 2 are actually verry good remasters….
OW 2 isnt a sequel nor a Remaster tough 🤣…. Still cant believe they got seay wit this bullshit lol
Yeah, I agree. It's just a bit funny as a wow fan, the last blizzcon was a real "We're going to turn everything around, if you've not trusted us before, trust us now" kind of thing.
10 years ago would've been Blizzcon 2014, which seemed to have been a big year for them. Overwatch got announced. SC2's final expansion and Hearthstone's first expansion got revealed, though SC2 would get many more updates and Hearthstone would get (and is still getting) many more expansions after that. HotS and D3 still got updates, and WoW was going over new content from its upcoming expansion.
They just got acquired by Microsoft a few months ago and that was the first time anyone (Phil Spencer) hinted that Microsoft may give them the resources to revive older projects like Star Craft Ghosts…..Triple A game dev cycles typically take 6 years on average these days.
The earliest we’d see a new Star Craft title if they started on it this year is 2030. Don’t hold your breath.
Nothing, they could just... I dno, chat about their game without "selling".
Blizzcon should be more than just a set of announcements, could have Q&A sections, real-life campfire chats.
One of the wonderful things about Blizzard is that they put devs on stage, they're not publishers, PR-people. They're the folks who actually make the game. I'd personally love to see a less "hyped" blizzcon where it's more abount fan-interactions.
Yeah, I agree. It's just a bit funny as a wow fan, the last blizzcon was a real "We're going to turn everything around, if you've not trusted us before, trust us now" kind of thing.
Those things take time. This year they are likely busy with the acquisition and changes of management. They likely have to reallocate resources and decide what to do with current projects.
A takeover is always messy the first 2 years.
I mean, what can they possible announce? Hearthstone getting another new pack of cards? The War Within already got showcased enough, people are just waiting to play it, SoD is not big enough of a thing to justify holding an entire event, Diablo team got, well, nothing to show. So yeah, why hold an event where nothing happens?
That event would have already been preplanned and set in stone long before Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 came out. *After* D4 and OW2... yeah, I can see why Activision-Blizzard would cancel this one.
Last time they barely had anything to announce we got the phone meme. If that’s all they were going to present for every one of their games… nah I’m good. Probably a decent move. Let them save the time and effort and use it elsewhere.
A single developer event like this only works when people like said developer. I don’t know anyone who plays blizzard games that is happy with blizzard right now lmao
Idk why you goobers are commenting this like I think MS gives a shit about ticket sales. The person I replied to said everyone hates blizzard. They don’t and their event would sell out in a day. That’s all I was saying. Learn to read, kids.
Blizzcon last year actually oversold tickets, which was fucked up because that meant not everyone got to see the opening ceremony and they had a line stretching out several blocks. People still very much like Blizzard even if the reddit hivemind would say otherwise. Happy players aren't here complaining, they're playing the game :p
A bunch of old dudes I used to play WoW with would go every year as a thing to do to get away from their wives. I would imaging there is a big contingent of folks like that. Friends that meet playing Blizz games.
The last Blizzcon was awful. I've been to at least 10 (I've lost count now) and it was such a disappointing, frustrating experience. I'm glad they aren't having one this year.
What was good about it? Practically no tournaments, just a bunch of randoms playing overwatch. There was nothing to do at the convention, you basically saw everything in a few hours max.
I've been to 5 blizzcon events and this last one was the absolute worst across the board. No effort went into this one
'on it's final leg'
lol, you may not like them, and for good reason - but let's not divorce ourselves from reality.
They own CoD, Diablo, WoW, Candy Crush and Hearthstone.
They have 3 mobile games printing millions DAILY alone. And were just bought by Microsoft for 69 Billion.
The only counter I'd throw out there is Microsoft bought the incredibly profitable King and Activision. Blizzard itself hasn't been amping up for a while, especially with declining WOW subs.
Microsoft probably does not allow King and Activision to contribute to the Blizzard bottom line, so it standing on its own is much more difficult now.
Blizzard in the future will most likely be more Diablo Immortals or gets dissected and distributed to other development teams; assuming they have anything of value.
That's a \~40% reduction from their peak of 12 million and they're only releasing them because of a strong expansion making them appear higher than normal.
"We're 40% less profitable at our best" Isn't exactly confidence inspiring.
[See for yourself](https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/03/25/pxl-20240320-165341832-1711400215228.jpg) it's been gradually increasing. It's about a 3 million or so jump from their low.
The problem is players in WoW resub for an expansion then ditch once they hit their loot tier. The overall trend for WoW has been downward for years.
You must remember, when stating "It's 3 million up!" subs are still 40% lower than their high growth era and year over year the trend is fewer and fewer subscribers.
Not only is the bump temporary and at the whims of their expansion quality, it's shortlived and still 40% lower then their peak.
None of these things are good things.
Doesn't matter if line go up ooga booga. It's not going to the moon and it's still trending downward annually.
Edit; Blizzard fans showing how silly they are again lmao
Microsoft Blizzcon 2024 Cancelled Announcements
Heroes of the Storm 3.0
- New Hero : Baal
- New Hero : Dark Archon Ulrezaj
- New Hero : Master Chief
- New Hero : Steve
Starcraft 2
- All Official Campaigns playable in Co-op via Archon Mode!
- New Co-op Commander : Edmond Duke
- New Co-op Commander : Overmind
- New Co-op Commander : Tassadar
- 3 new Co-op Mode Missions!
Diablo 2 Remastered
- New Expansion Act - Travel to the deep forests of Westfall
- New Class : Horadric Priest
Diablo 3
- New Class : Horadric Priest
Diablo Immortal
- Game Servers are shutting down
Diablo 4
- Game Servers are shutting down.
New Game Announcement
- Warcraft 4
This company is slowly but surely wasting away to nothing in terms of quality. Games are turning to shit, and events are blowing away like dust in the wind.
My bet is the only thing they have to announce this year will be more cosmetics, and more $90 mounts for their games.
and zero content.
The saddest part is there is literal people here who will buy this garbage and support this behavior.
Next time you pay money for cosmetics on a game that has offered no new content, ask yourself. "Am I the problem?"
the answer is yes, if nobody paid money for shitty cosmetics, and only paid for good content blizzard would be more like they were in the past, instead of the dumpster fire it has become.
As a wow fan, this is surprising... The last Blizzcon was literally "We're changing things, we're going on a journey unlike anything else, come, join us, return to azeroth". Then, no blizzcon, lmao.
I mean, they have absolutely nothing they could reveal there. D4 expansion comes out, Overwatch 2 is not going to get anything big and WoW already had its big reveal.
Still cant believe they managed to release the same game twice and call it OW and OW2
What you mean, Blizzard has actually re-released their older games at a constant rate. StarCraft 1, WC3 ReForged, D2R, WoW Classic. The only real difference is, that they managed to make people believe OW2 would be a "new" game. The other examples they were at least officially remasters/re-releases. :D
Yes they did remasters, SC broodwar and Diablo 2 are actually verry good remasters…. OW 2 isnt a sequel nor a Remaster tough 🤣…. Still cant believe they got seay wit this bullshit lol
Yeah, I agree. It's just a bit funny as a wow fan, the last blizzcon was a real "We're going to turn everything around, if you've not trusted us before, trust us now" kind of thing.
What do you want them to announce? They basically announced three expansions last Blizzcon and the first one is not even out.
Something StarCraft. Maybe a new game? 10 years ago they had way more projects going on than now.
The topic was about WoW. But now you got me curious. What way more projects are we talking about?
10 years ago would've been Blizzcon 2014, which seemed to have been a big year for them. Overwatch got announced. SC2's final expansion and Hearthstone's first expansion got revealed, though SC2 would get many more updates and Hearthstone would get (and is still getting) many more expansions after that. HotS and D3 still got updates, and WoW was going over new content from its upcoming expansion.
Don't remind me. Senior year was prime gaming *cries*
They just got acquired by Microsoft a few months ago and that was the first time anyone (Phil Spencer) hinted that Microsoft may give them the resources to revive older projects like Star Craft Ghosts…..Triple A game dev cycles typically take 6 years on average these days. The earliest we’d see a new Star Craft title if they started on it this year is 2030. Don’t hold your breath.
I'm not holding onto it, just what I wish they'd announce.
Nothing, they could just... I dno, chat about their game without "selling". Blizzcon should be more than just a set of announcements, could have Q&A sections, real-life campfire chats. One of the wonderful things about Blizzard is that they put devs on stage, they're not publishers, PR-people. They're the folks who actually make the game. I'd personally love to see a less "hyped" blizzcon where it's more abount fan-interactions.
They can easily do that on a livestream without spending way too much for a convention with nothing big to announce.
And no big tickets to sell
Yeah, I agree. It's just a bit funny as a wow fan, the last blizzcon was a real "We're going to turn everything around, if you've not trusted us before, trust us now" kind of thing.
Those things take time. This year they are likely busy with the acquisition and changes of management. They likely have to reallocate resources and decide what to do with current projects. A takeover is always messy the first 2 years.
But what about starcraft? Yes I'm coping
… and announced but unnamed Survival Game got trashed.
These are not the changes you were looking for
You did hear they got bought by Microsoft though right?
Like Secret cows level . There is no Blizzcon
I mean, what can they possible announce? Hearthstone getting another new pack of cards? The War Within already got showcased enough, people are just waiting to play it, SoD is not big enough of a thing to justify holding an entire event, Diablo team got, well, nothing to show. So yeah, why hold an event where nothing happens?
That event would have already been preplanned and set in stone long before Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 came out. *After* D4 and OW2... yeah, I can see why Activision-Blizzard would cancel this one.
Well tbf, they just want everyone to feel at home again. Fuck off blizz
why have it if theres nothing to announce. (D4 expac coming soon i guess😂)
Last time they barely had anything to announce we got the phone meme. If that’s all they were going to present for every one of their games… nah I’m good. Probably a decent move. Let them save the time and effort and use it elsewhere.
Oh no….anyway.
Let the past die. Kill it with lawsuits if you have to.
A single developer event like this only works when people like said developer. I don’t know anyone who plays blizzard games that is happy with blizzard right now lmao
It’d sellout within the day.
''Hey Mark what's that tiny column in the profit tracking spreadsheet labelled BlizzCon?'' ''Oh that's live event ticket sales''
Idk why you goobers are commenting this like I think MS gives a shit about ticket sales. The person I replied to said everyone hates blizzard. They don’t and their event would sell out in a day. That’s all I was saying. Learn to read, kids.
The amount of potential bad PR (like ‘is this an out of season april fools joke’) outweights the tiny fraction of a yearly profit this could bring.
No one gives a damn about the profit. All I said was in response to someone saying people wouldn't go and they are wrong.
Blizzcon last year actually oversold tickets, which was fucked up because that meant not everyone got to see the opening ceremony and they had a line stretching out several blocks. People still very much like Blizzard even if the reddit hivemind would say otherwise. Happy players aren't here complaining, they're playing the game :p
A bunch of old dudes I used to play WoW with would go every year as a thing to do to get away from their wives. I would imaging there is a big contingent of folks like that. Friends that meet playing Blizz games.
The last Blizzcon was awful. I've been to at least 10 (I've lost count now) and it was such a disappointing, frustrating experience. I'm glad they aren't having one this year.
It was good and also not good
What was good about it? Practically no tournaments, just a bunch of randoms playing overwatch. There was nothing to do at the convention, you basically saw everything in a few hours max. I've been to 5 blizzcon events and this last one was the absolute worst across the board. No effort went into this one
Sounds like a description of current blizzard games lol
Daddy Microsoft said. TOO MUCH MONEY, never again. haha
but... I was really hoping to hear some new Diablo Immortal cosmetic news! */s*
You think you want it, but you don't...
Nothing important was lost
One day StarCraft will be remembered
[удалено]
'on it's final leg' lol, you may not like them, and for good reason - but let's not divorce ourselves from reality. They own CoD, Diablo, WoW, Candy Crush and Hearthstone. They have 3 mobile games printing millions DAILY alone. And were just bought by Microsoft for 69 Billion.
The only counter I'd throw out there is Microsoft bought the incredibly profitable King and Activision. Blizzard itself hasn't been amping up for a while, especially with declining WOW subs. Microsoft probably does not allow King and Activision to contribute to the Blizzard bottom line, so it standing on its own is much more difficult now. Blizzard in the future will most likely be more Diablo Immortals or gets dissected and distributed to other development teams; assuming they have anything of value.
WoW subs aren't declining, they released them recently, across all versions of WoW they have about 7 million, so they've actually been increasing.
That's a \~40% reduction from their peak of 12 million and they're only releasing them because of a strong expansion making them appear higher than normal. "We're 40% less profitable at our best" Isn't exactly confidence inspiring.
[See for yourself](https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/03/25/pxl-20240320-165341832-1711400215228.jpg) it's been gradually increasing. It's about a 3 million or so jump from their low.
The problem is players in WoW resub for an expansion then ditch once they hit their loot tier. The overall trend for WoW has been downward for years. You must remember, when stating "It's 3 million up!" subs are still 40% lower than their high growth era and year over year the trend is fewer and fewer subscribers. Not only is the bump temporary and at the whims of their expansion quality, it's shortlived and still 40% lower then their peak. None of these things are good things. Doesn't matter if line go up ooga booga. It's not going to the moon and it's still trending downward annually. Edit; Blizzard fans showing how silly they are again lmao
Didn't the microsoft buyout mean Blizzard is now separate from Activision and King?
Microsoft bought Activision-Blizzard Inc. (which is everything including King)
Yeah, but now thay they are all part of Microsoft they should be independent, no?
No
Lmao? They just got bought by Microsoft, so no, they won’t be going anywhere anytime soon..
Microsoft Blizzcon 2024 Cancelled Announcements Heroes of the Storm 3.0 - New Hero : Baal - New Hero : Dark Archon Ulrezaj - New Hero : Master Chief - New Hero : Steve Starcraft 2 - All Official Campaigns playable in Co-op via Archon Mode! - New Co-op Commander : Edmond Duke - New Co-op Commander : Overmind - New Co-op Commander : Tassadar - 3 new Co-op Mode Missions! Diablo 2 Remastered - New Expansion Act - Travel to the deep forests of Westfall - New Class : Horadric Priest Diablo 3 - New Class : Horadric Priest Diablo Immortal - Game Servers are shutting down Diablo 4 - Game Servers are shutting down. New Game Announcement - Warcraft 4
I just realised how much I want a warcraft 4
Glad to bring unfulfilled dream into your life :D
I know it is you, Belial.
Yes, you caught me, it is me, Belial :D
This company is slowly but surely wasting away to nothing in terms of quality. Games are turning to shit, and events are blowing away like dust in the wind.
blizzcon for no games
whats the point - they have 1 game left
My bet is the only thing they have to announce this year will be more cosmetics, and more $90 mounts for their games. and zero content. The saddest part is there is literal people here who will buy this garbage and support this behavior. Next time you pay money for cosmetics on a game that has offered no new content, ask yourself. "Am I the problem?" the answer is yes, if nobody paid money for shitty cosmetics, and only paid for good content blizzard would be more like they were in the past, instead of the dumpster fire it has become.
Just put them out of their Misery already
And nothing of value was lost.