Exactly. And there clearly won't be one, so the convention loses much of its appeal.

I, personally, would prefer silence over "Geek is".

I think they realized that if they held Blizzcon this year, they would have to field questions like "How come 6 million people dumped WoW in the last year?" (yes, I predict they will lose 4 million more subscribers if they continue on their current course of dumbing the game down with greater impugnity than George Lucas did to the Star Wars franchise of movies).

"I think they realized that if they held Blizzcon this year, they would have to field questions like "How come 6 million people dumped WoW in the last year?" (yes, I predict they will lose 4 million more subscribers if they continue on their current course of dumbing the game down with greater impugnity than George Lucas did to the Star Wars franchise of movies)."

That's a super intelligent, and not at all ridiculous theory.

they never lost 6 million people. they cut 1m accounts that were fake/bots/gold sellers.

@ josh

Please read my whole message. I realize they have not lost 6 million subscribers. To date, they are down just under 2 million from the peak. As I said, I speculated that they would lose another 4 million by the time Blizzcon would have actually occurred. Which is a little bit of an exaggeration for effect, but meant to convey that they are bleeding subscribers, and that I think they will continue to do so.

Dear Aranyszin,

I realize you must be shocked at the horrific disaster The TORtanic has become. I know you desperately wanted Bioboobs to crush Blizzard, but it won't happen.

You see my dear hater, there is no WOW Killer, in fact, to your horror, Pandas will take WOW to a new high in Subs.

Blizzard is now the one and only MMO company, and you will just have to twist in agony as you realize that.