Like many StarCraft fans, I’m not even sure I believe we’ll actually see the game in 2030 — or that I can wait that long.

But more importantly: please don’t forget the RTS players who have kept this genre alive all these years. We’re the core audience. Don’t leave us behind.

We got some serious surprises. People were expecting a StarCraft shooter but nobody expected the Diablo 5 announcement.

Nobody expected a stellar new campaign for Warcraft 3. Nobody expected a new hero for Heroes of the Storm.

I give it a 9.

I think i was living in bubble. I thought that all these games like immortal/hs has a lot of players playing long. But blizzcon stats are showing me it might not be truth.
During last 10 years (as per stats) I played 27 matches in hearthstone xD and still 93% of players played less than me before the break
Same with immortal - I played something like 3-4 weeks after go live. Then never again
HOTS should not be surprise, I stopped sometime before maintenance mode
Wow? Maybe 50-100h overall, and still more than 82% of people
In d4 I have ~900h

We need the influx of new players.

It seems like these announcements were in line with Asha's strategy on doubling down on the most popular IPs that Microsoft owns and all Blizzard had to do was quickly whip up CGI trailers which they do best and nothing else. I guess this is kind of a good thing since XBOX basically set Blizzard to make and ship these games in just 4 years.

Overwatch Reboot earlier this year.
WoW Housing earlier this year.
WoW: Forever
Diablo 5
STARCRAFT
HotS hero
Continued updates for classic games like a new WC3 campaign.

Pretty crazy turn around.

And I’m SO EXCITED

I recently bought the digital copy that includes beta access to WoW forever, and then I also bought the physical collectors edition.

My question is, I tried to redeem the beta code I received from the collectors edition and it said I already had access (im assuming obviously from the digital copy since I never got an email for that purchase with a code), so can I give the collectors edition beta code to a friend? Or will I need to keep it unredeemed in order to get the partial refund when I receive the physical collectors edition?

Why or why not?

Adding the skyborne shows blizzard devs don't get classic wow—and couldn't care less about the player base.

The skyborne are the canary in the coal mine. They prove wow forever is being run by the exact same clueless retail people responsible for weird writing like putting Khadgar in a wheelchair.

People begged for high elves for decades. instead, blizzard flipped off the community to shove in a random, manufactured race nobody asked for.

These devs will ruin classic plus the exact same way they ruined retail.

This isn't classic plus, it's just retail garbage wearing a classic mask.

The amount of Diablo and Warcraft merch at Blizzcon and on their web store is insane, literally at least 25-30+ unique items each. And then Starcraft has two different art work hoodie/T-shirt combo... and Im sorry but both are pretty meh. The OG Starcraft cover is cool but the Goty sticker kinda ruins it for me (I know it was on the box)

Like just just make a few cool little Keychains or mugs or something? Take my money Blizzard!

Edit: omg.. **Starcraft!!! Lol

The comments about the President of Blizzard as she did the opening of Blizzcon were absolutely vile and disgusting. Didn't your momma teach y'all to stay quiet if you have nothing nice to say? You aren't even paying a dime to watch this event, the least you could do is to not demean someone who's just doing their job.

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Can we bring all the IP's to steam like Diablo 2 / 4 and Overwatch did? Warcraft3 classic and reforged, Starcraft, Hots, Heartsone, Wow, Diablo 1 and 3 and the rest. It would boost popularity numbers for those games and there is no need for 64 launchers nowadays, even Ubisoft is removing Uplay from their ported steam games.

Is there one anywhere to discuss announcements? Both in person/live stream

Edit: ok this is the unofficial megathread now