Any one else feel like they will not be doing anymore Blizzcons? They canceled it in 2022 and again in this year. Will these cancellations become more and more common? Also since they announced the next 3 WoW expansions what would they even show at future Blizzcons?
I remember Blizzcon was “the place” to be at and tickets sold out in like 5mins and crashed their website with how many people were trying to get them. Now attendance is less and less and everything seems to be shifting to streams and online platforms. Are the days of Blizzcon and everyone coming together and you finally meeting online friends IRL gone? 
Times change.
What made Blizzard great is gone, the old guard was kicked out.
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Probably not. Too expensive and people posted articles about how they were losing money on them.
If I had to make a guess purely on speculation.
Microsoft wants to roll Blizzcon into their own con type events.
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Whatever they would show at a blizzcon will just be rolled into Xbox’s annual presentations.
Is this not true about virtually everything?
Have you been to a Mall recently? They’re so depressing, 80% of the stores are closed and the ones still open are quiet and running sales.
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Blizzard apparently isn’t even going to have a setup at Comic Con this year, either.
/moo 
Why worry about some event? The media field is changing post COVID era. Some have been moving to internal stream and while others adopts a hybrid approach.
Blizzards name and reputation are both permanently damaged. While it’s easy to blame Kotick and any executive/director/producer. Everyone including Blizzards awful community is partly to blame.
People here and on all of their games forums, oftentimes just tell people to uninstall or quit if they don’t like something that is clearly bad for the game and its players. Maybe instead of doing that we should have kept an open mind to the fact that all of their games needed better change and not more egregious monetization practices.
They will never have anything to show again because the majority has already moved on. How many MAUs were last reported specifically for Blizzard? 30 million in the grand scheme of it all is nothing compared to many other games or the 3 billion people who game as a whole. They never grew their playerbases or communities and the people who currently play hate the idea that they’re simply wrong about enjoying the games as they are today.
Stop spreading falsehoods when you don’t have any analytics to back it up. What you have is just words and no factual data to show for it.
These events are really expensive and becoming less necessary to advertise their product in a meaningful way. It’s certainly unfortunate and I think completely unrelated to Microsoft.
Every two years when a new Warcraft expansion is ready to be announced may make sense or perhaps even less frequently may become the norm, but I do not think we’ve seen the last one.
I’m sorry but the vast majority knows that Blizzard has fallen in general and anything they put out is likely to be overly monetized(when they do not deserve that money) or straight up garbage see upcoming TWW.
Yeah that is not remotely true at all. People generally liked dragonflight. And the reception from beta is generally positive as well. Those who hate the game will always hate the game. So yeah no matter what blizzard these people pretty much made up their minds.
Well, Blizzcon was usually scheduled for the first days of November, it is the same time for elections in US.
I guess it could’ve impacted their decision. Maybe the success of TWW to reassure the World Soul Saga and Diablo 4 stabilizing in Season 5 it might help improve the adherence.
The problem is Warcraft is their only IP that isn’t slipping. D4 was a disaster for a company that produced game of the year after game of the year. I have the feeling the egos of the top have gotten too big. They know what is good, don’t let dumb customers tell you that you’re wrong.
The big problem is they aren’t doing what made them big: Taking existing genres of games, and putting their own unique spin on them. I question if any of the people who could even think of those unique spins are left. Mix in they underpay, because working at Blizzard is its own reward, and BIG SURPRISE your quality slips.
Look at a lot of the great sets and such we got this expansion, some other company poached that modeler. I’m sure that is just 1 of many, not a 1 off.
This is what I think, too. I think Blizz games will be a smaller thing within the MS conventions.
It’ll get absorbed.
Speaking of which… I’m either getting scammed or MS is now trying to get people to buy Game Pass through Blizz emails.
Just got an email today from noreply@e.blizzard.com (sus to me), sent to my iCloud email address (which Blizz doesn’t have) using my Bnet name (which is attached to a different email address) trying to get me to sign up for a free month of Game Pass.
There is no longer a company called Blizzard. Blizzard is a division of Activision Blizzard which in turn is a subsidiary of the gaming division of Microsoft. If Microsoft invests in an Activision conference it would most likely be for “Call of Duty” on their X Box.
Some times what happens is that companies in this position go to a larger themed conference where they have a booth and put on a few presentations.
Of course they won’t do anymore Blizzcons. Activision-Blizzard is Microsoft now, and Microsoft has its own conferences they hold each year. Why waste money on something when they could just announce the Next Big Thing at an Xbox Showcase?
You got that backwards, Activision/Blizzard is what doesn’t exist, both are their own developers under the Xbox division now.