Vault_News
Title: 0110011010
Be Nice to Me I'm a Bot
Posts:
43,785
Registered:
Oct 18, '05
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 42,467
User ID: 1,086,234
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
Bashiok posted:
Yeah it's a bit disappointing because we all really do enjoy being able to 'open the doors' so to speak. But, it is an enormous effort by all employees, including our game designers and artists, not to mention customer support and quality assurance, PR, our business departments, and *hot breath on fingernails & shirt rub* Community & eSports to make a BlizzCon happen. In a year when we're working to release multiple titles (knock on wood) it makes sense to focus our efforts. Also with multiple game releases we just wonder if we'd be at a point with any of them where we'd have anything really big or new or cool to talk about.
We didn't have a BlizzCon in 2006 either, and at that time we were really strong on the idea that BlizzCon isn't really supposed to be and doesn't have to be an annual event. Of course then we have it for five straight years in a row... which obviously built some expectation.
Personally I always enjoy seeing the excitement, the rushing crowds, hearing the clicking of mice on the demo stations, and waiting in agony as the seconds countdown to an announcement and then the waves of emotion from the crowd that follow it. But thinking about our year and what we're trying to get done already without a BlizzCon, and having to think pretty hard about what we'd have to announce or demo, it just makes sense to me not to have one.
Here's to the Battle.net World Championship, it's going to be awesome, and to a bigger and better BlizzCon in 2013.
Posted from WoW Vault
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Quazimortal
Title: The One and Only
Posts:
17,806
Registered:
Sep 18, '04
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 17,157
User ID: 968,129
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
Whoa, whoa, whoa! They are going to pass on all the stupid money they charge for people to watch that crap online?
Consider me amazed.
-----signature-----
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
We provide the music, and you provide the silence.†~Leopold Stokowski
|
|
Link to this post
|
Liquid741
Title: VN Sensei
Posts:
5,106
Registered:
Dec 16, '06
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 5,095
User ID: 1,191,724
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
|
im sure they will sell a virtual ticket to a Orgrimmar trade show in game or something along that lines.
-----signature-----
April 26th..the day the future will be known...NFL draft.  I'd rather be kicked in the face then be a Patriots fan! 
|
|
Link to this post
|
Kriegprojekt
Posts:
2,653
Registered:
Apr 12, '10
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 2,591
User ID: 1,390,814
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
|
They need to cater to their growing market.
-----signature-----
http://www.immortal-guild.com/ Deepstrike Server Milkman - Guardian Bard
|
|
Link to this post
|
Sprawl-zero1eye-
Title: IGN Vault Staff
Reziztance iz Futile
Posts:
53,263
Registered:
Jun 28, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 52,657
User ID: 692,733
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
|
I always assumed they made bank with their sellout show, thus it will go on and on.
-----signature-----
Mirkwood MUD, OneEye IvoryFang, Lord of the VampireZ (Retired) AC Frostfell, Clan Z - Lvl 239 Grief Dagger (Retired) WoW Lightbringer Alliance, Z Guild - Lvl 85 Combat Rogue (Retired) Making iOS Apps these days at http://zsprawl.com/iOS
|
|
Link to this post
|
Spookysheep
Title: Lieker of Cheese
Posts:
21,595
Registered:
Jan 9, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 21,166
User ID: 601,475
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
|
Sounds like blizzard is "consolidating"
-----signature-----
I liek cheese
Pirates > Ninjas
.....................................
|
|
Link to this post
|
Eternal_Midnight
Posts:
19,580
Registered:
May 11, '00
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 15,756
User ID: 24,262
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
|
Turns out the first couple million who left WoW paid for BlizzCon!
-----signature-----
We have not inherited the Earth from our parents, we have borrowed it from our children.
|
|
Link to this post
|
vn_vigilante66
Title: GO TEAM VENTURE!
Posts:
22,253
Registered:
Jan 27, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 21,788
User ID: 65,294
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
|
They have nothing new to show. Its been the same stuff lately
-----signature-----
WoW - Archimonde - Ner'Zhul
All people have evil thoughts, its those that act on these thoughts, that make them evil
I can accept failure. What I cannot accept is not trying.
|
|
Link to this post
|
GutterSludge
Posts:
4,620
Registered:
Nov 6, '05
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 4,545
User ID: 1,091,587
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
Eternal_Midnight posted:
Turns out the first couple million who left WoW paid for BlizzCon!
QFT
-----signature-----
Guttersludge
People just can't handle the truth.
NeMeFieD said:"Yea I Ucmed for 12 days straight.."
njwCSUS posted:I'm homosexual, so really, its ongoing sexual attraction to my father, not my mother.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Ugh_Lancelot
Title: Ooo...bouncy!
Posts:
5,492
Registered:
Jun 17, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 5,446
User ID: 689,383
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
GutterSludge posted:
Eternal_Midnight posted:
Turns out the first couple million who left WoW paid for BlizzCon!
QFT
/chuckle
-----signature-----
WoW and DAoC - Too many alts to count
Charter Member - Altaholics Anonymous
|
|
Link to this post
|
sarnsereg
Title: I HAS A TITLE?
Posts:
18,092
Registered:
Jun 17, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 17,296
User ID: 163,596
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
blizzard stated that one of their big problems was how expensive it was and the fact that all the teams essentially are losing 2 weeks of work because of blizzcon.
and when it comes to the money makers they look at the amount made and if it isn't enough it doesn't matter.
-----signature-----
"...and they'll say "Hey, Look at him!, I'll never live that way". And that's ok they couldn't anyway..."
|
|
Link to this post
|
Spookysheep
Title: Lieker of Cheese
Posts:
21,595
Registered:
Jan 9, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 21,166
User ID: 601,475
|
Subject:
No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!
|
sarnsereg posted:
blizzard stated that one of their big problems was how expensive it was and the fact that all the teams essentially are losing 2 weeks of work because of blizzcon.
and when it comes to the money makers they look at the amount made and if it isn't enough it doesn't matter.
Teams "losing two weeks worth of work".....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
breathe......
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
-----signature-----
I liek cheese
Pirates > Ninjas
.....................................
|
|
Link to this post
|
