{"id":7824,"date":"2012-01-26T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=7824"},"modified":"2012-01-26T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T05:38:10","slug":"blizzard-cancels-blizzcon-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/blizzard-cancels-blizzcon-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Cancels BlizzCon 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/blizzcon_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7825\" title=\"blizzcon_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/blizzcon_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/blizzcon_logo.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/blizzcon_logo-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bad news for fans of Blizzard\u2019s annual showcase BlizzCon. The company has announced that they will not be holding the annual event this year due to a heavy release schedule from the company this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to be showcasing Blizzard eSports on a truly global stage this year. We&#8217;re also heavily focused on getting Diablo III, [World of Warcraftexpansion] Mists of Pandaria, and [Starcraft II expansion] Heart of the Swarm into players\u2019 hands as soon as possible. In light of our jam-packed schedule, we\u2019ve decided to hold the next BlizzCon in 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah it&#8217;s a bit disappointing because we all really do enjoy being able to &#8216;open the doors&#8217; 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 &amp; shirt rub* Community &amp; eSports to make a BlizzCon happen. In a year when we&#8217;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&#8217;d be at a point with any of them where we&#8217;d have anything really big or new or cool to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BlizzCon has been held almost every year since 2005 (2006 was the other year to not host a BlizzCon event). The show is the company\u2019s annual event to open up to the media. The show usually features presentations by Blizzard employees, tournaments, contests, and hands-on time with their upcoming games. The company is putting the finishing touches on Diablo 3 as well as preparing \u00a0anew expansion for thier power house title, World Of Warcraft. Blizzard is also at work designing a new strategy game called Blizzard DOTA as well as an MMO currently titled Titan. They also have a second StarCraft II expansion pack called Legacy of the Void on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for fans of Blizzard\u2019s annual showcase BlizzCon. The company has announced that they will not be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7826,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}