0Dates for this year's Blizzcon have been announced!
Originally Posted by (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
BLIZZCON!!!!!! The seventh BlizzCon is coming to the Anaheim Convention Center Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9, 2013. Those who join us for this epic community gathering will experience two solid days of hands-on time with the latest Blizzard games, in-depth developer discussion panels, intense eSports action featuring some of the top players in the world, and a variety of other exciting activities and events. Further details on the show, including ticket pricing and availability, will be posted here on BlizzCon.com at a later date. In the meantime, check out the press release for more info and prepare to help us blow Anaheim's mind.
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#1 Eldius
Diablo Fan
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:14 PM
#2 battle
Zealot
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:15 PM
#3 CasmX
Zealot
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:16 PM
They've been doing a great job improving the game with these patches, I hope they can pick up even more momentum at Blizzcon and eventually truly transform the game into something great! (or greater, depending on your point of view)
Oh pitiful shadow lost in the darkness,
Bringing torment and pain to others.
Your damned soul wallowing in your sin.
Perhaps...
it is time to die.
#4 pr3ach3r
Zealot
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:27 PM
too soon?
#5 Serpenth
Sexton
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:36 PM
#6 Oranite
Advanced Member
Posted 19 February 2013 - 04:50 PM
Predictions:
Project Titan: They will probably will announce some more information for this project, maybe even give it a name and have some test demos at Blizzcon for attendees to try out.
Starcraft 2: With the release of HOTS this year I highly doubt they are going to announce anything with Legacy of the Void at Blizzcon at all this year, if we are lucky maybe a very early alpha demo in the play test area.
WOW: Same with SC2, MOP was just released at the end of last year I know they are planning another expansion for WOW but probably not much information will come out on it.
Diablo 3: Here is the big one, at the rate Blizzard is going, 2-3 months per new patch. 1.0.7 was just released earlier this month, I suspect a 1.0.8 to launch sometime in May, possibly around the Diablo 3 one year anniversary. 1.0.9 will be sometime in late summer around August, then finally 1.1 will be around late October just in time for Blizzcon discussion.
Blizzard might actually consider Diablo 3 after 1.1 to be a "completed project" and we won't really receive any content patches like what we have been getting. Again leading towards the likely announcement of Diablo 3's first expansion, definitely not a date of course
#7 Oranite
Advanced Member
Posted 19 February 2013 - 04:55 PM
Blizzard All-Stars: after being in an intense legal battle with Valve over the the name "Blizzard DOTA" and within it's conclusion within the last year. I suspect they might throw this in somewhere.
#8 overneathe
The Fanboy
Posted 19 February 2013 - 05:04 PM
Blizzcon sure is late this year.
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Not really late, just 2 weeks later than the ordinary.
On your predictions I can say you're likely very right on SCII. Unless some other project is in the works that is not exactly an expansion. Maybe a better platform for custom games. Anyway.
WoW's expansion will be announced because the lifetime of a WoW expansion is about 2 years and 1 would've already passed by the time Blizzcon is held. This is 99.9999%.
Diablo 3's expansion will most surely be announced as well. I'd give it 98%.
All Stars... I wouldn't be surprised if the game releases by then. Nope, not gonna be surprised at all.
Take those as personal speculation of course. I don't have inside info. But I'm quite confident.
#9 RMrulz
Sexton
Posted 19 February 2013 - 05:24 PM
Most reasonable estimates of Titan's launch seem to put it at least 2 years away, possibly more like mid-to-late 2015 (of course these are all based on pure speculation). If the game really is that far away, I don't expect an announcement.
#10 m4st0d0n
Sexton
Posted 19 February 2013 - 05:35 PM
Starcraft: All-Stars is already late... It has been announced at Blizzcon 2011, it should be out by November (if it's not canned, that is). The Protoss expansion could be announced though, it would fit the 1,5 year expansion cycle that was planned initially.
Diablo: I'll be disappointed if they don't announce the expansion before Blizzcon. In their last Q&A they hinted at core systems changing, and the game really needs that. Things like that don't fit a live game very well though, so I expect an early expansion, one that tries to fix the deepest problems (rewards, drops and items). 1.08 and 1.09 is not a necessity, they can skip numbers to 1.1 if they feel their "real" PVP is ready. And I'd bet on it that they're deep in development of 1.1, they wouldn't have denounce team DM if they didn't have something in works already.
WoW: The last expansion got out earlier than previous ones, so an announcement in November would be late. I expect an announcement earlier in 2013.
#11 overneathe
The Fanboy
Posted 19 February 2013 - 07:19 PM
#12 Uldyssian
Cantor
Posted 19 February 2013 - 07:26 PM
#13 Hiderius
Zealot
Posted 19 February 2013 - 08:01 PM
1. Announce the Diablo 3 expansion for 2014 release.
2. Discuss the release of Starcraft 2: Heart of the swarm
3. Maybe Titan.
#14 RMrulz
Sexton
Posted 19 February 2013 - 08:17 PM
#15 mazingerz
Zealot
Posted 19 February 2013 - 09:42 PM
#16 m4st0d0n
Sexton
Posted 19 February 2013 - 10:19 PM
m4st0d0n you have to take into consideration that announcing things on Blizzcon is a way better method then just announcing it on a regular Tuesday when no one cares. The announcement can be 1 month late but in development terms that's not an issue at all. Everything cool for the 6 months prior to Blizzcon will be postponed to that date likely.
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We've seen many kinds of announcements from Blizzard
#17 Eldius
Diablo Fan
Posted 20 February 2013 - 09:11 PM
1. Announce the Diablo 3 expansion for 2014 release.
2. Discuss the release of Starcraft 2: Heart of the swarm
3. Maybe Titan.
I can see late 2013, early 2014 release for the first D3 expansion with a demo of it on the show floor. Titan is almost a definite. Heart of the Swarm will be out before Blizzcon, so I would imagine we'd see the third and final installment to SC2 on the show floor as a demo.