Blizzard isn’t positive whether or not it’ll maintain BlizzCon 2020 this 12 months as a result of at this level it’s “too early to know whether it will be feasible.”
Speaking in an open note to followers on the official web site (thanks, Massively), Blizzard mentioned earlier this 12 months it began actively working to finalize plans for this fall’s BlizzCon 2020.
However, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the studio is as an alternative maintaining a tally of whether or not to proceed with its plans.
While we’re all hopeful issues will look higher later within the 12 months, the underside line is that at this level it’s too early to know whether or not BlizzCon 2020 can be possible. The well being of our group, staff, and everybody who helps with the present is our high consideration. It is perhaps a number of months earlier than we all know for sure if or how we’ll proceed, however as quickly as we now have a significant replace, we’ll share it.
We do need to point out that previous to the current occasions we had been actively working to finalize our plans and actually are nonetheless doing so, regardless of the office adjustments we’ve now made at Blizzard. That consists of contemplating a variety of situations and potentialities, not simply when it comes to the present, but additionally relating to what the expertise could be for you. We know BlizzCon additionally includes preparation in your half, so we’ll do our greatest to supply as a lot readability as we are able to, as rapidly as we are able to.
A gaming conference might be the very last thing on most individuals’s minds proper now, and that goes for many people at Blizzard too. As occasions around the globe announce cancellations, postponements, or shifts to a web based format in response to COVID-19, we’re seeing questions on our plans for this 12 months’s BlizzCon and we need to present a fast replace.
We love BlizzCon, and we all know a lot of you share that feeling and sit up for it as a possibility to get away for some time, meet up with mates, and have time. As so many people have been remoted for a number of weeks now, surrounded and in some instances immediately impacted by the continuing pandemic-related challenges around the globe, we’re wanting ahead to the time once we can see each other once more in individual and have one thing to have fun collectively.
If BlizzCon 2020 goes on as deliberate, we totally anticipate to listen to extra about Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, updates to World of Warcraft, and regardless of the developer has up its sleeves for its different mental properties.
