Reminder: BlizzCon 2010 tickets on sale tomorrow, June 2
by Anne Stickney 
Jun 1st 2010 at 3:00PM
A reminder to those planning on purchasing BlizzCon 2010 tickets: The first round of sales for tickets will be tomorrow, June 2 at 7:00 p.m. PDT/10:00 p.m. EDT. BlizzCon 2010 will be taking place Oct. 22-23 in Anaheim, California.
Tickets are $150 each. For those unable to get tickets during tomorrow's window, there will be a second round of sales on Saturday, June 5 at 10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT. There is a five-ticket limit per household.
For those unable to attend the convention proper, the DirecTV Pay Per View event will return in 2010 for $39.95, as well as the multi-channel internet stream of the event. For the first time, anyone who purchases the internet stream will be able to switch freely between multiple channels of coverage dedicated to different areas of BlizzCon, meaning viewers can tune in to the sections they're most interested in, rather than what they're stuck with.
And, of course, WoW.com will be bringing you live blogs of everything and complete event coverage.
For those planning to purchase tickets: This is your reminder. Make sure you're online and at the Blizzard Store or the official BlizzCon website tomorrow evening, play a few rounds of Failoc-alypse and hope your fingers are fast, because these tickets are sure to sell out within seconds.
Tickets are $150 each. For those unable to get tickets during tomorrow's window, there will be a second round of sales on Saturday, June 5 at 10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT. There is a five-ticket limit per household.
For those unable to attend the convention proper, the DirecTV Pay Per View event will return in 2010 for $39.95, as well as the multi-channel internet stream of the event. For the first time, anyone who purchases the internet stream will be able to switch freely between multiple channels of coverage dedicated to different areas of BlizzCon, meaning viewers can tune in to the sections they're most interested in, rather than what they're stuck with.
And, of course, WoW.com will be bringing you live blogs of everything and complete event coverage.
For those planning to purchase tickets: This is your reminder. Make sure you're online and at the Blizzard Store or the official BlizzCon website tomorrow evening, play a few rounds of Failoc-alypse and hope your fingers are fast, because these tickets are sure to sell out within seconds.
Filed under: News items, BlizzCon
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
seanthehorde Jun 1st 2010 3:17PM
I am 100% for an East Coast Blizzcon. They wouldn't even need to hire too many people. Just get some volunteers here and Pay them via a one-year subscription and a free Cataclysm. I know I wouldn't that.
Tremelizzer Jun 1st 2010 3:18PM
Could there be BlizzCon in Europe?
Patrick Jun 1st 2010 3:19PM
I plan for buying the Direct TV online stream. Do I have to buy those tickets tomorrow? Or can I wait till later?
flawless Jun 1st 2010 3:41PM
Unless you're physically visiting BlizzCon, you don't need a ticket. You just purchase the DirecTV package on its own.
flawless Jun 1st 2010 3:25PM
Sweet! Three tickets to BlizzCon.
Now, who should I take with me...
Thrall... aaaaand... T-Pain.
TPain Jun 1st 2010 8:04PM
Cool.
Scooter Jun 1st 2010 3:28PM
France got a convention. Settle down its the East-Coast USA's turn
Scooter Jun 1st 2010 3:42PM
Anyone know if the Direct TV tickets also get you some of the loot ya get with direct attendance tickets? For that matter, does anyone know what the loot is this year?
Phil Jun 1st 2010 3:48PM
I got the online streaming thing this last year and I got murky the space marine murloc with that purchase as well.
flawless Jun 1st 2010 5:20PM
It'll be the same as last year, a bonus companion pet. The swag will not be available unless you attend, but the vanity pet (if indeed it is a vanity pet again this year) will be given to people who pay for the DirecTV coverage.
Neodarkmatter Jun 1st 2010 3:44PM
As much as I would love Blizzcon to be somewhere else besides LA, we already know that they lose money doing Blizzcon so moving to a different location would cost even more.
And who likes to lose money?
Stormtamer Jun 1st 2010 3:50PM
Yey, 3am Ticket sales for the UK, and 4am for Europe! I will be tired Thursday.
On the subject of East coast Blizzcon, isnt going to happen. While you will get lots of volunteers, you still need to pay for things like insurance, travel costs etc and if the volunteers are already under your employment, its alot cheaper and easier to do.
Also on the the fact Blizz have loads of money so should do more, thats wrong.
If you just go on the increase of official partners selling proucts at Blizzcon, Blizzard are getting most of the money for the Con from selling spaces in the halls for 30,000 Blizzard fans to buy up anything you sell that has Blizzard licences on it.
Renting the Convention centre for the (probably) 2 weeks it takes to set up everything is a massive cost itself, and thats not factoring in things like, creating a deadline for developers to have something done to show at the Con (which costs money), stopping work in sections of Blizz HQ so the volunteers can go help set up, moving loads of things from Blizz HQ to Anaheim, and just general things we have to deal with like Flights and Hotels.
While it sucks, im not really suprised the tiket price went up, and Blizzard has already cut costs when it comes to conventions by only having 1 (by combining the WWI with Blizzcon) so i highly doubt we'll get a Blizzcon East or Blizzcon EU
Scooter Jun 1st 2010 5:12PM
Monetarily speaking the only thing that isn't LESS expensive about the east coast is the travel time/shipping of any necessary materials for setup. The cost of the convention is covered primarily with the ticket sales so money overall isn't an issue.
The point of a Blizzcon East to reward the loyalty of fans who are unable to scrounge the extra cash in travel expenses. If you put together the cost of the ticket, room, food, and travel your already in the neighborhood of $600 and that's if you know what your doing.
Placing the convention in a different timezone is like slashing $200-$300 off the overall cost.
Lios Jun 1st 2010 4:14PM
Do you even know that the internet is worldwide and that European people actually read this site and might want to go to Blizzcon? You could add the European time and a link to the store... I suppose European players can just log in to the European store and buy tickets there, right?
Cure4Living Jun 2nd 2010 1:32AM
Yeah its actually shocking how we who play on the european servers get ignored (although not in Europe myself).
SpaceGoatPriest Jun 1st 2010 4:22PM
I thought I might have enough money to go, but then I got termites in my house (about 2-3 months ago).
Then I got my tax refund and my wife got a bonus from her job, and things were looking up again. Then the AC died over this weekend.
So, I am officially giving up on going to Blizzcon before something else breaks in my house.
Alar Jun 1st 2010 4:37PM
This is it... the moment I've been waiting for... my first BlizzCon!
If I don't get my tickets, I think I'll cry.
Rajah Jun 1st 2010 4:42PM
I think we can pretty much guarantee there are going to be many people crying 5 minutes after ticket sales open.
perderedeus Jun 1st 2010 4:37PM
An East Coast BlizzCon would be nice. That, or a BlizzCon Lite if they're so damn concerned about flying their employees out to the eastern seaboard for a week.
Do this: Send a crew of a few suits, developers, and community people for each franchise, not the full complement. Staff the rest of the event with local persons. Have your usual vendors (they WILL travel) in booths, and areas to play the latest betas (or what have you), plus the televised PVP/Arena stuff. Here's the kicker... you have your Q&A panels like in CA, but you pipe video in from Blizzard HQ. Teleconference it up. Who says Chris Metzen has to leave his office to be shown on screens in NY or Philly, and to take questions from attendees?
Satn Jun 1st 2010 5:08PM
I could think of a thousand things i'd rather spend $150 on, not all of them even involving a hooker