Should you had a time machine and went again about ten years to inform individuals on the peak of the World of Warcraft craze that BlizzCon was being cancelled with no definitive timetable hinting at its return, individuals would in all probability take a look at you such as you’d been consuming an excessive amount of Badlands Bourbon. Nonetheless right here within the present day, Blizzard is cancelling BlizzCon 2024, leaving solely a tease that it’s going to return sooner or later within the upcoming years.
The once-colossal conference has positively diminished over current years. Following a cancellation in 2020, it returned in 2021 as an online-only occasion with the reveal of Diablo II: Resurrected and World of Warcraft Basic’s Burning Campaign growth. Then once more in 2022 it disappeared earlier than coming again as a full real-life conference in 2023 the place the MMORPG‘s Worldsoul Saga was introduced. Now, it’s been cancelled once more, with no clear indication of when precisely it’s going to make a return.
“After cautious consideration over the past yr, we at Blizzard have made the choice to not maintain BlizzCon in 2024. This choice was not made flippantly as BlizzCon stays a really particular occasion for all of us, and we all know a lot of you look ahead to it,” Blizzard says, in an announcement posted on the BlizzCon web site. “Whereas we’re approaching this yr otherwise and as we’ve explored totally different occasion codecs previously, relaxation assured that we’re simply as excited as ever to convey BlizzCon again in future years.”
Whereas BlizzCon 2024 won’t be occurring, Blizzard is pointing at a number of different stay conventions that the developer might be attending. These embrace Overwatch esports occasions at Dreamhack Dallas and Dreamhack Stockholm and a particular sequence of celebrations to commemorate 30 years of Warcraft, with a tease that Blizzard might also be current at Gamescom.
With the timeslot for this yr’s BlizzCon falling in an ungainly interval, across the probably launch window for World of Warcraft: The Conflict Inside and with little else to focus on apart from an upcoming Diablo 4 growth, it’s comprehensible that Blizzard might want to direct its energies elsewhere this yr. That mentioned, with solely a imprecise promise that BlizzCon will return sooner or later sooner or later, we’ve to surprise if 2023 was the final time we’ll be seeing the conference for some time.
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