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BlizzCon 2009 sold out in eight minutes News

PC MMO News by Oli Welsh

7 August, 2009

Here's a snippet we missed from the Activision Blizzard conference call earlier in the week. This year's BlizzCon Blizzard fan convention sold out in just eight minutes, according to Big Download.

That's how long it took to sell 20,000 tickets across two separate days at $125 a pop. Blizzard is also selling "virtual tickets" in the form of pay-per-view subscriptions to watch the event televised.

BlizzCon takes place in two weeks' time, on 21st and 22nd August, in Anaheim, California. This year's convention will be the fourth, not counting the two Worldwide Invitationals that have taken place in Korea and France.

Attendees will be treated to the usual mix of frank developer panels, hands-on with unreleased games, pro-gaming competition, dance and costume contests, a closing night gala and, most likely, a big announcement at the opening ceremony.

The first two BlizzCons saw the announcement of the first two World of Warcraft expansion packs, and most observers expect this year's to follow suit.

There's also bound to be some tasty new information on Diablo III and the delayed StarCraft II - we'd bet on seeing a new character class and playable campaign maps respectively.

Eurogamer will be there, bringing you all the news from the show floor.

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Eury
07/08/09 @ 08:03
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Posting messages on a video game site? Well, I guess so.
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07/08/09 @ 08:06
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@ Jamespo - Not everyone is the sterotype sitting in the mother's basement weighing 400 Stone. Some people go there for fun and to just have a good time.
mingster
07/08/09 @ 08:07
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Wow Blizzard are just money machines...
Skandalle
07/08/09 @ 08:14
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Looking forward to seeing more information crop up on Diablo III. I miss rapidly clicking that left mouse button to the point of pain.
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07/08/09 @ 08:15
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2.5 million in 8 minutes... shit. I hate being broke.

+ additional online tickets, pay per view... so, I guess there is no limit to that then?! not bad... not bad at all.

I wish they'd announce a release date for DIII... please... and PC specs
Kremlik
07/08/09 @ 08:37
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@ps3 unlikly with Battlenet tied to EVERYTHING blizzard does and thats delaying SC2 it's deffinitily delaying D3. Unless Blizzard drop the bombshell of Ghost being brought back or LOST VIKINS - the big anncoucment will be the WoW expantion and the name of this new IP if that..

Shame really if Blizzard left the SC2 delay annnouncement till after the con hype would be a LOT higher
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Opening announcement ? WOW- new addon pack. 2 years away but we'll announce it now anyways.
Level cap to 90. And its in the Maelstrom. New classes, new heroes and even more addictive than before.
Total bastards.
Have to go now.
Want to play WOW.
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07/08/09 @ 11:46
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I am off there this year, really looking forward to it after the Worldwide Invitiational last year. I doubt the announcement of any new WoW expansion can compare with last year's D3 reveal though...

Oh, and Skandalle - you do realise you could hold down the mouse button to auto-attack in D2, right? :P
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Take another 3 billion exp points to get to level 90.
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07/08/09 @ 15:08
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What in 9 minutes 20000 solds that s 2000 a minute!
Guildenstern
07/08/09 @ 19:39
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Well let's see if they manage to hype new expansion enough to get me back into wow...
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20 000 x $125 = $2 500 000. Not bad for an honest 8 minutes of work, and that's just ticket prices - with 20 000 thirsty/hungry/gameslusting players, they'll be doing a killing on drinks/food/sales. Still, there are some costs attached to the thing. Wonder what the eventual profits will be.

I'll just play it cheap and wait for the interesting tidbits to trickle in for free on the news channels.
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@jamespo

I'm going to guess you would go to E3 givin half the chance? What's the difference

And as Eury said, your posting on a games forum, that seen as a little nerdy or geeky by a lot of people.

And finally, Startcraft, Diablo, WoW are all games. I'm going to assume you are here because you play games.

So james, I'll just say, pot, kettle, black.

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