Additional Tickets for BlizzCon 2023 Go on Sale September 29

This year might be good with Metzen back.

Always loved the energy he brought to the stage.

All the same, 300, plus lodging, plus gas driving 8hr south, plus food and all that stuff you kinda need to survive... I'll stick with a Virtual Ticket this year again.

THey didn't sell out of tickets lmao

edit: nothing on the blizzcon panels features anything StarCraft related

That's a nice mount featured in the bottom corner.


I can't believe people are still whining about the price. If you can't afford it, it's obviously not targeting you. $300 is really nothing in comparison to other entertainment events.

To see a major artist perform will cost you upwards of $500+ per ticket for a evening show.

Most other trade shows are exponentially more expensive.

People comparing Blizzcon to their local Comicons/anime conventions/local gaming trade shows are just simply reaching. Blizzcon is a universe apart as far as cost, effort, and what is actually offered at Blizzcon.

If they don't open with metzen with heavy metal music blasting, im gonna burn this motherfucka down!

Originally Posted by Ateo

That's a nice mount featured in the bottom corner.

Didn't even see that. Nice.

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Also, to answer the other part of your post: Maybe I'm just getting old, but the idea of burning 2-3 tanks of gas at nearly $6/gallon (current prices), plus maybe 150-200 a night on hotel, plus 50-100 a day worth of food, just doesn't strike me as fun anymore.

Maybe if it was like "hey we're all going to go to Blizzcon" with guildies and shit... but... eh. Granted, the energy of Metzen on stage just doesn't translate through the live stream the same way, but still.

Guess they did not sell all the tickets.

Not surprised when you see the panels and announcements of Dragonflight it are not really devs i would have a drink with or hang out with. They lack charisma, being funny and a cool factor it all feels like a performance when i see them on screen saying their lines metzen is the only guy i would say to yeah lets hang out for a night and talk about stuff.

Originally Posted by Ateo

That's a nice mount featured in the bottom corner.


I can't believe people are still whining about the price. If you can't afford it, it's obviously not targeting you. $300 is really nothing in comparison to other entertainment events.

To see a major artist perform will cost you upwards of $500+ per ticket for a evening show.

Most other trade shows are exponentially more expensive.

People comparing Blizzcon to their local Comicons/anime conventions/local gaming trade shows are just simply reaching. Blizzcon is a universe apart as far as cost, effort, and what is actually offered at Blizzcon.

I don't think it's exactly fair to just dismiss comparisons to other conventions, especially since ya know, it's just short for Blizzard Convention.

The price is absolutely steeper than any other convention, and there's less overall. Like I've gone to NY Comic Con plenty of times and there's always a huge amount of panels to go to and events.

But that being said, those events also have other companies footing the bill to have a spot on the floor to sell merch and promote their stuff.
Blizzard doesn't have that, so it does make sense that the price would be higher. But it's not unfair for people to say they'd rather go to another convention for cheaper.

Play upcoming content for Dragonflight and Classic o.O
Could that mean ... Cata classic haha? Can't be Classic+ right?

lol those prices are absolutely absurd. Game has been worse off than it ever has in recent years (DF is a step in the right direction i admit) yet ticket prices are not only more expensive than ever, but skyrocketed past whatever inflation excuses they/shills want to come up with.

And sheep want to defend this shit against their own interest

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Originally Posted by kranur

Play upcoming content for Dragonflight and Classic o.O
Could that mean ... Cata classic haha? Can't be Classic+ right?

Yea Cata classic announcement inc. Also 11.0 world revamp announcement inc. 3 versions of azeroth to enjoy now!

Originally Posted by Ereb

lol those prices are absolutely absurd. Game has been worse off than it ever has in recent years (DF is a step in the right direction i admit) yet ticket prices are not only more expensive than ever, but skyrocketed past whatever inflation excuses they/shills want to come up with.

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Yea Cata classic announcement inc. Also 11.0 world revamp announcement inc. 3 versions of azeroth to enjoy now!

Careful it might just be Wrath last patch the Ruby Sanctum and 10.2 haha

Originally Posted by flan1337

Careful it might just be Wrath last patch the Ruby Sanctum and 10.2 haha

LOL could you imagine! "And only for the low low price of $79.99 you TOO can fight in the Ruby Sanctum this Christmas!"

People would defend it too is the sad part

Originally Posted by Ereb

LOL could you imagine! "And only for the low low price of $79.99 you TOO can fight in the Ruby Sanctum this Christmas!"

People would defend it too is the sad part

Except this has never happened before. Never in the history of WoW has a CONTENT PATCH been locked behind a pay wall. There is no content outside of EXPANSIONS that you need to pay for. If I'm wrong please feel free to correct me. And, to cut you off, Tmogs and Mounts and Pets from the Blizzard Store are not content. Raids, Story lines, Rep Grinds, Dungeons, etc are all accessible if you own that expansion.

There's been no cost to play Classic outside of your monthly sub. Shit you don't even need Dragonflight to play Classic (Something I see as a problem), just an account in good standing and paid up for the month.

Originally Posted by SinR

Didn't even see that. Nice.

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Also, to answer the other part of your post: Maybe I'm just getting old, but the idea of burning 2-3 tanks of gas at nearly $6/gallon (current prices), plus maybe 150-200 a night on hotel, plus 50-100 a day worth of food, just doesn't strike me as fun anymore.

Maybe if it was like "hey we're all going to go to Blizzcon" with guildies and shit... but... eh. Granted, the energy of Metzen on stage just doesn't translate through the live stream the same way, but still.

Comes with age my friend. Decades back I went to a 3 day metal festival, met this old grizzled tattooed dude with his jacket loaded with patches in the tea tent. I asked him what campsite he was at and he laughed and said he was in the hotel down the road.. we all become that dude one day, am almost there now

Originally Posted by SinR

Except this has never happened before. Never in the history of WoW has a CONTENT PATCH been locked behind a pay wall. There is no content outside of EXPANSIONS that you need to pay for. If I'm wrong please feel free to correct me. And, to cut you off, Tmogs and Mounts and Pets from the Blizzard Store are not content. Raids, Story lines, Rep Grinds, Dungeons, etc are all accessible if you own that expansion.

There's been no cost to play Classic outside of your monthly sub. Shit you don't even need Dragonflight to play Classic (Something I see as a problem), just an account in good standing and paid up for the month.

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Originally Posted by Ereb

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A joke has to make sense for it to, you know, be a joke, and your "joke" didn't make any sense. Why would a patch for Wrath Classic cost $80? Oh, right, because "hur hur Activision greedy hur see the funny guyz!".

The person you quoted was making a point over the fact that right now the infograph just uses WoW classic and Guardians of the Dream as a (possible) placeholder image to play upcoming WoW content at Blizzcon.

As for the rest of your posts - Yes, Blizzcon tickets are expensive, most conventions and things like them are. Broadway tickets, for seats that aren't terrible, can range upwards of $150-200 a head, same with concert tickets, and that's just for a two to three hour performance, and yet people still buy those, and why? Because they're paying for the experience. I can watch a Broadway performance of Spamalot at home on Youtube if I wanted for free, yet my wife and I still dropped close to $400 on tickets to see it live on Broadway when it returns this December, because of the experience.

If you feel $300 isn't worth the asking price for Blizzcon, great, more power to you. I'm sure there are plenty of people that also think that paying $200 for a Broadway performance also isn't worth it when they can watch it for free on line, or at a Fathom Events screening. But for those that do want the experience, they understand where the price comes from, and that these things do, in fact, cost money.

If we weren't saving for a trip to Disney next year, on top of her starting a new job this year, my wife and I absolutely would have spent the money to go out to California for Blizzcon and make it a vacation, because for us, it's worth that money to spend for the experience and memories. If it's not for you? That's great, but don't sit here and actively shit on others that do want to make that memory and have that experience because "And sheep want to defend this shit against their own interest". That just makes you sound like an immature child.

Originally Posted by Ereb

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Apologies. Jokes really don't translate that well over the internet. If only there was some kind of thing you could put on a post to show sarcasm or to indicate its a joke... You know... like actually being funny

Originally Posted by SinR

Apologies. Jokes really don't translate that well over the internet. If only there was some kind of thing you could put on a post to show sarcasm or to indicate its a joke... You know... like actually being funny

I figured the obvious satire was obvious but here you are lmao take a bow

Originally Posted by Jester Joe

I don't think it's exactly fair to just dismiss comparisons to other conventions, especially since ya know, it's just short for Blizzard Convention.

The price is absolutely steeper than any other convention, and there's less overall. Like I've gone to NY Comic Con plenty of times and there's always a huge amount of panels to go to and events.

But that being said, those events also have other companies footing the bill to have a spot on the floor to sell merch and promote their stuff.
Blizzard doesn't have that, so it does make sense that the price would be higher. But it's not unfair for people to say they'd rather go to another convention for cheaper.

The amount of effort in the setup of blizzcon blows away literally every convention in America. Comicon is pretty much just a giant dealers hall and Hollywood press conference. Absolutely no other con has set pieces like Blizzcon(hearthstone tavern area, Darkmoon faire area, all the statues, the history hall, the retro arcade, etc.) , none of them have casual ways to interact with writers, artists, and voice actors, none of them allow you to just walk up to the CEO of let's say Marvel for example. But blizzcon does, I have literally had drinks with Ion and a few other bigwigs at the Hilton during after parties and I was even able to sit and have a casual 1 on 1 chat with Metzen randomly near the food trucks. You'd literally have to pay hundreds of dollars and wait in lines for hours to experience stuff like this at other conventions. Meanwhile Blizzcon is straight up natural interactions with humans.

This doesn't even mention the face to face interactions with streamers, content creators, developers, etc that Blizzcon offers. It's also a networking paradise for anyone in the tech or gaming industry.

The measly $300 for a ticket to this event that can literally change your life if you're trying is well worth it.

Originally Posted by Ateo

The amount of effort in the setup of blizzcon blows away literally every convention in America. Comicon is pretty much just a giant dealers hall and Hollywood press conference. Absolutely no other con has set pieces like Blizzcon(hearthstone tavern area, Darkmoon faire area, all the statues, the history hall, the retro arcade, etc.) , none of them have casual ways to interact with writers, artists, and voice actors, none of them allow you to just walk up to the CEO of let's say Marvel for example. But blizzcon does, I have literally had drinks with Ion and a few other bigwigs at the Hilton during after parties and I was even able to sit and have a casual 1 on 1 chat with Metzen randomly near the food trucks. You'd literally have to pay hundreds of dollars and wait in lines for hours to experience stuff like this at other conventions. Meanwhile Blizzcon is straight up natural interactions with humans.

This doesn't even mention the face to face interactions with streamers, content creators, developers, etc that Blizzcon offers. It's also a networking paradise for anyone in the tech or gaming industry.

The measly $300 for a ticket to this event that can literally change your life if you're trying is well worth it.

You're not viewing this from both sides.

While Blizzard might have a lot of physical set up, a lot of that is just moving those items from storage to the exhibition hall.

While you might look at comic con and go "wow that's just a big dealers hall", you're ignoring how much work it takes to coordinate with all the companies who are coming to ensure everything is set up, and make sure guests are still set up come while also having back up guests in case something goes wrong. And also I don't know what kind of conventions you're going to, but I can promise you that usually most of the big booths also have pretty massive displays/statues to show off. Either way, the coordination difference is going to be massively different when it's dozens of companies compared to only one.

You might luck out and find someone like you're saying at BlizzCon, but there's a reason why they're charging $800 to actually ensure that you can meet the devs, because it's not common to do so (or they're intentionally going to make it impossible now).

Originally Posted by SinR

Never in the history of WoW has a CONTENT PATCH been locked behind a pay wall. There is no content outside of EXPANSIONS that you need to pay for.

I mean. There's a subscription fee between you and the content.