BlizzCon 2010

BlizzCon 2010 was announced on March 25, 2010 and took place at the Anaheim Convention Center on October 22-23, 2010. There were more than 27,000 people who attended.

Summary

 * Diablo
 * Diablo III fifth and final class revealed: Demon hunter.


 * StarCraft
 * Brand-new mod, Blizzard DOTA revealed

Activities

 * Discussion panels with Blizzard Entertainment developers
 * Art Panel
 * Class Panel
 * Dungeons and Raids panel
 * Quests and Lore Q&A
 * Open Q&A
 * Hands-on play time with upcoming Blizzard Entertainment games
 * Live Raid: Defense of Orgrimmar
 * Community contests with great prizes
 * The standard Movies, Song, Art, Costumes, and Dance Contests Rules and Applications.
 * Live community chats

Tickets

 * $150.00 USD per ticket (up from BlizzCon 2009, +$25.00 USD)
 * $39.95 USD per virtual ticket
 * Sold in two batches:
 * Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at 7:00pm Pacific Time (California) (Sold out in ~30 minutes)
 * Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at 10:00am Pacific Time (California) (Sold out in ~30 minutes)
 * Clarification was given to the purchase window, with Mike Morhaime giving the statistic of a thirty (30) second window in which a person had to have pressed the "Purchase" button to acquire tickets.

Swag/Goodie Bag

 * BlizzCon badge that grants access to BlizzCon
 * Deathy, the malformed Murloc that looks a bit like Deathwing
 * StarCraft II Grunty portrait icon
 * Dethling maquette figure from Sideshow Collectibles
 * BlizzCon themed Authenticator
 * Many other contests and pamphlets for vendors
 * SteelSeries (Key for chest)
 * Brady Games (Quest bookmark)
 * Jinx
 * Cryptozoic ($5 USD Class Decks)

Coverage

 * DirectTV is covering BlizzCon via a Pay-Per-View event, and offers a streaming internet video of the same feed.
 * Price was $39.95 USD
 * Includes both Deathy and the StarCraft II Grunty portrait and unit emblems
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 * WoW Insider
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