BlizzCon 2018 Announced - November 2 & 3
This year's BlizzCon will be held on November 2nd and 3rd down in the usual location of Anaheim California! Ticket sales will be on May 9 & 12 with Benefit Dinner sales on May 16.
The Hearthstone Global Games will make an appearance during BlizzCon with more information on that coming soon.
Quote from BlizzardTeam up with your friends and family and get ready for a journey to Southern California for BlizzCon® 2018, Blizzard’s epic celebration of games and esports and the communities that bring them to life! Tickets to the main event, taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center on November 2 and 3, will go on sale May 9 and May 12, with tickets to a special pre-BlizzCon benefit dinner going on sale May 16.
BlizzCon Ticket Sale #1: Wednesday, May 9 at 7:00 p.m. PDT
BlizzCon Ticket Sale #2: Saturday, May 12 at 10:00 a.m. PDT
BlizzCon Benefit Dinner Ticket Sale: Wednesday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. PDT
Every BlizzCon, people from around the world gather to celebrate their shared passion for games, learn more about Blizzard’s games and universes directly from the developers, cheer on their favorite esports stars through world-class competition, and much more.
This year’s show will once again commence with the esports action of BlizzCon Opening Week, taking place at Blizzard Arena Los Angeles from October 25 to 29, where the initial rounds of the StarCraft® II World Championship Series Global Finals, the Heroes of the Storm® Global Championship Finals, and World of Warcraft® Arena World Championship Finals will unfold. The competitions will culminate in Anaheim on November 2 and 3, where the champions of these tournaments along with those of the Overwatch® World Cup and Hearthstone® Global Games will be crowned.
BlizzCon Tournament Dates
Heroes of the Storm Global Championship: October 25–28, November 2–3
StarCraft II World Championship Series: October 26–28, November 2–3
World of Warcraft Arena Global Championship: October 29, November 2–3
Overwatch World Cup: November 2–3
Hearthstone Global Games: November 2–3
A limited number of tickets to Opening Week events at Blizzard Arena Los Angeles in Burbank, California will go on sale later this year—further details will be announced in the months ahead.
BlizzCon 2018 Ticket Details
BlizzCon 2018 tickets will be available for $199 USD each (plus applicable taxes and fees) through the online ticketing service Universe. Tickets include two-day admission to the main event at the Anaheim Convention Center on November 2 and 3, and attendees will receive a commemorative BlizzCon goody bag containing a cache of loot based on their favorite Blizzard games. Visit the BlizzCon Event Info sitefor complete details, including important information for people interested in attending in person.
BlizzCon Benefit Dinner in Support of CHOC Children’s
Before BlizzCon begins, we’ll be hosting an exclusive pre-BlizzCon dinner to benefit CHOC Children’s on the evening of Thursday, November 1, where attendees will have the chance to spend time with Blizzard developers, artists, and community representatives—all while supporting a great cause. Tickets to the benefit dinner, which include BlizzCon admission, are limited in number and will go on sale Wednesday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. PDT for $750 each. Blizzard Entertainment will donate the net proceeds from the event to CHOC Children’s. Visit the Charity Dinner page for more details.
BlizzCon Virtual Ticket Coming Soon
Gamers around the globe who aren’t able to attend in person will have the chance to enjoy BlizzCon from just about anywhere via the Virtual Ticket, which offers live streaming coverage of the event and a variety of bonus content, including this year’s BlizzCon in-game items. More details on the BlizzCon 2018 Virtual Ticket, including pricing, availability, and programming information, will be announced at a later date.
Whether you’re attending in person or joining us online, we hope to see you there!
Wow
HGG Finals is at least better than 2017's Inn-vitational.....
Only a casual player and not enough saved to go this year, but I'll watch the stream if there's one
I can't go there physically. So I get a virtual ticket each year. I also usually pay quite a bit to have the Goodie Bag imported (which, let me tell you, is not cheap in Denmark. Postage is more than the bag) except for last year. It was horrendously bad there, with nearly nothing in it, and basically all Overwatch themed.
So I'm somewhat concerned for how it will be this year regarding that particular side of it. Beyond that though, I'm still getting a virtual ticket so I can watch streams of their games and squeak like an anime girl when they show awesome stuff. :)
I always want to go, but I feel like since I only play/give a fuck about hearthstone and occasionally overwatch, it's not worth 200 bucks >.<;
Another year, another Blizzcon full of cringe and disappointment. At least the only good things from last year was the announcement of WoW Classic and the Hearthstone show with Ben Brode was so great.
If you thought it was cringe then why the hell did you buy the ticket? what the hell were you thinking, its blizzcon, it is bound to happen, but it's a part of the experience in my opinion. And how can you say it was disappointing? some would argue this was one of the greatest, vanilla wow, BOA was announced with the coolest blizzard cinematic in history, and free StarCraft,muse was playing and a ton of new content was announced in every single blizz game and a lot of cool guest appearances. What do you mean?
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Game is still imbalanced with multiple characters needing reworks because they're either too OP or completely useless
Comp is still a joke
Devs are big brothering the playerbase, to the point where they'll ban you just for spamming voicelines EVEN THOUGH IT'S A PART OF THE GAME, or posting Pepe the Frog.
Only four proper gamemodes (arcade doesn't count), two of which are extremely similar
Time locking game modes and cosmetics. Archives and Anniversary have NO REASON AT ALL to be timelocked. Lucioball needs to be made a permanent mode, the Archive missions need to be available all year round, and the dance emotes need to be in the regular loot box, not the Anniversary one. Speaking of loot boxes...
But if that wasn't enough, there's the backwards philosophy at Activision Blizzard. Remember their excuse to timelocking event modes and items? "We want them limited time so they feel rare and special when you get them." -Jeff Kaplan. Sounds an awful lot like another loot box excuse...what was it...oh right! "We want the players to feel pride and accomplishment." -EA. Now the new lie is "We don't have PvE permanent for we feel people would find it boring real fast." I'm just shocked and appalled by the backwards thinking of the Overwatch team. It feels just like the infamous "You think you do, but you don't" line when Blizz was originally not gonna do Vanilla Servers. I'm just tired of the devs treating me like a moron.
Can't argue with your assessment of D3. See the last page of comments for mine. It's pretty well in line with yours, though.
And hm, good to know what's going on with somebody who follows OW more closely than I do. I must admit, I'm a casual scrub who MAYBE plays ten matches a month, if that. As a parent of 2 young kids, my gaming time is at least 70% Hearthstone with little time for much else!
Woomy
2.): The only good about BfA is the cinematic. We had another expansion that had a very cool cinematic. It's Called Warlords of Draenor. I think it's much greater than the Legion one, but was it a good expansion? NO!
3.): Release is on August 14th. Alliance-Quests need a complete revamp, but that's not possible. 2 new mechanics, but all in all both are only scenarios. Island Expeditions are Legion Portals 2.0 with the "improved KI"; not sold about this. And the rest it's even worse than in Legion
4.): Azerite Gear as an Replacement of Artefact Weapons are a sick bad joke. Boring Passives and boring Gear. Don't forget: this is meaned to replace ARTEFACT PROGRESSION, SET BONUSES and LEGENDARIES. And right now they are not even active abilities, instead they are boring passives.
5.): The real name of the expansion is actually Battle for Abilities: because Ability-pruning continue: nobody wants it, but blizzard thinks that everyone wants to play a character with 5 abilities and 2 cooldowns.
6.) Removal of SETS. Yes, right now they say that there will still be sets, but no longer with bonuses. But in the future even this might get removed. In the end we will get no more sets and then we end up with 4 different sets each Raid Tier for each armor class.
"im just tired of the devs treating me like a moron"
Well unfortunately - majority of the audience are - and companies have to cater to the lowest common denominator to make as much money as possible
Not that excited honestly...
Battle of Azeroth is coming this year, which means no WoW expansions are gonna be announced until next year. And after the sheer bullshit they pulled with BoA's collector edition, I'm not even that excited about WoW anymore...
They got no plans to do anything with Diablo anymore, so that sucks.
Starcraft II is finished except some puny mission pack thingies, so that sucks.
Heroes of the Storm will get a new hero or two.
Overwatch will get a new hero or two.
So really....unless they surprise us massively, the only thing they'll have to show off here is the final Year of the Raven expansion...
You are obviously not that in to blizzard stuff. There will be a ton of new content released, pluss a shitload of competitions and tournaments in every blizz game. There will be a famous band playing in the end, cosplay shows, and some panels were you can either meet your favorite streamer or play some new content like in last year you could play the new dungeon run. Btw what do you mean with bullshit boa collectors edition?
And I shit you not that blizzard is always hiding something cool in their sleeve, like in last year they announced vanilla servers for wow, so don't be so quick dealing in absolutes and say that there will be no big news for either Diablo, StarCraft, wow, HS or OverWatch
Wow so edgy!!
All i see on this post " announcement of last hearthstone expansion this year will be november 2nd and 3rd"