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Blizzcon 2011 Ticket On Sale…
… Saturday, May 21st and Wednesday, May 25th! Woot!
Mark your calendars! Tickets for BlizzCon 2011 will go on sale at on Saturday, May 21 at 10 a.m. PDT and on Wednesday, May 25 at 7 p.m. PDT through the official BlizzCon website (www.blizzcon.com). In addition, a limited number of tickets to an exclusive pre-BlizzCon Benefit Dinner will go on sale Saturday, May 28 at 10 a.m. PDT. BlizzCon tickets will be available at $175 USD each, while tickets to the BlizzCon Benefit Dinner (which include admission to the show) will be priced at $500 each, with proceeds going to benefit Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Tickets to previous BlizzCon shows have sold out within minutes, so be sure to synchronize your hourglasses.
If you can’t make it to the show in person, the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket will once again allow you to watch the event live from the comfort of your own home. The Virtual Ticket will be available as multi-channel Internet stream around the world and also via DIRECTV in the United States.
See the full press release or visit the official BlizzCon website for more information, and we’ll see you at BlizzCon!
I’m a bit torn about the ticket price this year. Last year, I was willing to pay $150 because it was my first Blizzcon and I wanted to experience it. Now that I have, and now that I know what to expect, it’s a little harder to justify paying that price. The big announcement is going to be Diablo 3, which doesn’t interest me at all. The games they’ll have to play will be Diablo 3, perhaps the next milking expansion of Starcraft, and World of Warcraft. The swag doesn’t do anything for me – I still have the unclaimed pet card on my desk.
Guess I’ve got a month to figure out what I want to do…
Blizzcon 2011
I know this is a “welcome to last week” post, but Blizzcon 2011 has been announced for October 21-22. I was on my lunch break at work when I read the news, but with their website blocker in place I couldn’t read much more than the date. Didn’t need to. I had the date, which meant I could book my hotel.
Whaaaa? That’s right – without even knowing what a ticket was going to cost, I was going to commit to Anaheim a good ten months in advance. Truth be told, I wasn’t overly concerned about getting an admission ticket. In the two days of Blizzcon 2010 that I attended, I probably spent three hours actually inside the Convention Center. A large part of my day was spent walking to the building, walking back from the building, and hanging out in my room checking out the various Twitter feeds to find out what events were going on (the curse of going by myself without having any contacts to meet up with). I had planned on attending more of the panels, but there was a scheduling mixup and the panels I did want to see started at different times than what was posted on the schedule I had. When you’re looking at a 15-20 minute walk just from your room to the Convention Center, that can affect what you get to see. If I had wanted to spend more time at the Convention Center, I suppose I could have stood in line for swag. But after looking to see what they had for sale, I couldn’t see a single thing I was interested in buying.
The night life is what saved Blizzcon for me, and I didn’t need a ticket for it.
Rokk Talk 