{"id":130335,"date":"2020-09-22T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=130335"},"modified":"2020-09-22T08:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:35:03","slug":"going-blizzcon-online-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2020\/09\/22\/going-blizzcon-online-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"What are your BlizzConline plans for 2021?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we have just learned that in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2020\/08\/05\/blizzcon-2020-online\/\">absence of their annual BlizzCon<\/a> fan event\/exposition\/game announcement\/demo\/rock concert\/eardrum-damaging lobby party, Blizzard has settled on <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2020\/05\/28\/when-is-blizzcon-2021\/\">February 19-20<\/a> for an online edition of the show. At the moment, details are slim on the whole schedule, but in this <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzcon.com\/en-us\/news\/23513935\">initial announcement<\/a>, they&#8217;re priming the community to bring in socially-distanced versions of the creations we normally see on Community Night: the <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/gallery\/blizzcon-2019-cosplay-exhibition-gallery\/\">cosplay exhibition<\/a> and contest, the talent show, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/gallery\/blizzcon-2019-art-contest-winners\/\">art contest<\/a>, and a new digital storytelling contest for filmmakers and machinima artists.<\/p>\n<p>The responses so far run the gamut:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a year where there&#8217;s been a ton of darkness in the world, losing the ability to participate in big sensational activities like BlizzCon <em>hurts<\/em>, and even a virtual substitute is welcome for some folks.<\/li>\n<li>However, a virtual substitute doesn&#8217;t make up for BlizzCon being an event that regularly draws friends from the world over into the same spot for a weekend.<\/li>\n<li>With many other shows of this kind also cancelled or switched to a virtual version during 2020, Blizzard hasn&#8217;t made any appearances to showcase any of their announced-but-unreleased games, like <em>Diablo Immortal<\/em>, <em>Overwatch 2<\/em>, and the hotly-anticipated <em>Diablo IV<\/em>. Knowing that more news wouldn&#8217;t be coming in November with the regular convention made the absence of news on in-dev projects even more sought after. And knowing <em>now<\/em> that it&#8217;ll likely be February before we hear more about any of these games is &#8212; well, it&#8217;s good because it&#8217;s only five months, but the last five months have been like <em>10 years long<\/em>, right?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So are you excited for the online fan convention? Cooking up plans for cool submission to one of the contests? Or anything in particular you&#8217;re looking forward to about the show?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we have just learned that in the absence of their annual BlizzCon fan event\/exposition\/game announcement\/demo\/rock concert\/eardrum-damaging lobby party, Blizzard has settled on February 19-20 for an online edition of the show. At the moment, details are slim on the whole schedule, but in this initial announcement, they&#8217;re priming the community to bring in socially-distanced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":116878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[704,24],"tags":[56134,65394,70449,40708,55431,2915,49188],"yst_prominent_words":[28961,8181,8932,8921,11897,11466,8180,25121,70447,34042,8583,26677,17449,70439],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130383,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130335\/revisions\/130383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130335"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=130335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}