BlizzCon Online will be free

Nowadays would've starred the finale of BlizzCon 2020, and while the convening's cancelled for obvious reasons, Blizzard has habitual that we'ray getting an online replacement for Old next year. Today, president J Woody Allen Brack hosted a 'fireside chat' addressing the underway state of the company's games, and confirmed that the digital BlizzCon will equal independent.

"We want it to be a big, virtual solemnisation," Brack says, "so BlizzConline will follow free to watch and engage in." The BlizzCon 2021 dates are bent for February 19 and 20 – I don't think anyone's really calling it 'BlizzConline' out there and atomic number 3 Brack notes, Feb wish cooccur with Blizzard's 30th anniversary.

Blizzard silent hasn't confirmed what we'll be seeing at the online event, beyond a number of community-centralised things like cosplay showcases. In the video, Brack briefly touches along games like Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4, but doesn't confirm whether we'll be seeing those titles at BlizzCon. But Brack does add that "it's safe to assume that we're exploring other things farther out on PC, console, and mobile, likewise."

Mostly, the video runs down major recent and approaching Blizzard releases, like the incoming WoW: Shadowlands acquittance date and Hearthstone's Madness at the Darkmoon Faire expansion. Brack also spends a great deal of meter highlight the company's go up to stamping down on toxicity across its catalog of online multiplayer games.