Blizzard has made an announcement today on BlizzCon 2020. It is too early to know if the event is taking place this year.
We're hopeful that if the convention itself is cancelled, something digital will take place instead. BlizzCon has always been a great event for all of Blizzard's communities and it would feel very different not having that end of year string of announcements. Read on for their official statement.
Quote From Saralyn Smith Hello Blizzard community,
A gaming convention is probably the last thing on most people’s minds right now, and that goes for many of us at Blizzard too. As events around the world announce cancellations, postponements, or shifts to an online format in response to COVID-19, we’re seeing questions about our plans for this year’s BlizzCon and we want to provide a quick update.
We love BlizzCon, and we know many of you share that feeling and look forward to it as an opportunity to get away for a while, meet up with friends, and have a good time. As so many of us have been isolated for multiple weeks now, surrounded and in some cases directly impacted by the ongoing pandemic-related challenges around the world, we’re looking forward to the time when we can see one another again in person and have something to celebrate together.
While we’re all hopeful things will look better later in the year, the bottom line is that at this point it’s too early to know whether BlizzCon 2020 will be feasible. The health of our community, employees, and everyone who helps with the show is our top consideration. It might be a few months before we know for certain if or how we’ll proceed, but as soon as we have a meaningful update, we’ll share it.
We do want to mention that prior to the recent events we had been actively working to finalize our plans and in fact are still doing so, despite the workplace changes we’ve now made at Blizzard. That includes considering a range of scenarios and possibilities, not just in terms of the show, but also regarding what the experience would be for you. We know BlizzCon also involves preparation on your part, so we’ll do our best to provide as much clarity as we can, as quickly as we can.
In the meantime, please be good to one another, stay well, and know that we’re holding everyone impacted by COVID-19 in our thoughts.
Saralyn Smith
Fury Warrior, Executive Producer of BlizzCon
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Are we going to get an official statement as to who won the Master qualifier livingroom edition?
And nothing of value was lost.
Had to be done, to prevent the spread of COVID. It would be irresponsible to hype up blizzcon in midst of a pandemic.
Then again, judging by the going ons in the last 2 blizzcons, it might be tactical to skip at least this one anyway.
It's in december will this crisis persist until then?
Definitely not going away any time soon! Estimates from various orgs so far give us as long as 18 months to 2 years of being cautious, though its tough to say when house lockdowns will end. I'm of the opinion things will start to open up again towards the end of the year but it'll still be a "only go out if you really must, absolutely no large social gatherings allowed" sort of deal. I'm sure my opinion on that will change in a few weeks as we get more information.
We really need a vaccine to start the road to recovery. Getting that rolling will let us be more confident about opening stuff up. Everyone just needs to do their part and stay away from others as much as possible. Less transmission, better outcomes for those who are sick since they get the care they need.
The whole pandemic has been very interesting to watch, as horrible as that may sound (definitely a better way of putting it). Seeing which governments are even just semi-competent and seeing how different people react is all going to help society going forward.
Saw many articles about a vacinne in November.
I am pretty sure that you will see many articles about vaccine in November also :)
You mean this november huh...
I meant that I read an article about a vaccine coming in Novemeber from a Canadian company that made the vaccine for swine flu... medicago:
https://www.pmi.com/media-center/news/medicago-develops-a-plant-based-vaccine-for-coronavirus
so who knows.. I am just optimistic about it ending soon enough.
This should be mandatory. The level of infection with Covid-19 is too much of a gamble for people to be in that close of proximity.
It sucks as this is the one time of the year that Blizzard enthusiasts get to revel in what is coming in the next year, but realistically, it is a bad move to potentially endanger so many people.
Mandatory I don't think so especially with them foregoing safety precautions in a rush to get it out. There is a reason why we don't do certain vaccines anymore and that reason is major side affects. All medicine has a risk reward aspect. I am hopeful the plasma and cloroquine(sp) will show they are very helpful in fighting the disease. Big pharma is doing it's best to shade the effectiveness of these treatments because there is not as much money to be gained. Also in California a test to show if you are immune is coming out. There is evidence pointing to the fact a high population is naturally immune. Making a mandatory vaccine is a boon to big pharma and may not be necessary if other treatments work. It's amazing how you would be so willing to give up your rights for something that maybe entirely unnecessary.
Major side effects to commonly-used (non-experimental) vaccines are extremely, extremely rare. If you care to assert otherwise, cite some published, peer reviewed evidence.
The fact about vaccines is that they made everything you enjoy about the modern world possible. Why have we never had a pandemic like this before in our lifetimes? Vaccines. That's why.
It took a brand new illness to make us have to worry and protect ourselves from possible infection by a disease we have no vaccine for yet. But before vaccines, massive outbreaks of deadly illness and widespread deaths from it were a common occurrence.
Vaccines do immeasurably more good for humanity than the extremely uncommon bad that comes from side effects.
Those are the facts of the situation. And this pandemic will not fully resolve until we have herd immunity to Covid-19, thanks to wide spread, affordable vaccines that are being developed even as I write this response.
Washing hands and clean water are what brought us into the modern era in terms of deathrates and catching illnesses. Any medicine has side effects. Even Tylenol can wreck your kidneys if you are not careful. Vaccine injury does happen. I don't do the flu shot anymore because A) it has a 15% effectiveness rating and B) one of the worst flus I've ever had has come from the flu shot. If this new covid shot comes with a similar effectiveness rating and no safety testing do you really want to be a guinea pig?
Here is a recent article about Bill Gates shenigans and other vaccine issues citng sources such as the WHO. This shows the danger of new vaccine experiments.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/government-corruption/gates-globalist-vaccine-agenda-a-win-win-for-pharma-and-mandatory-vaccination/
You would be foolish not to recognize the risk reward dangers in something designed to manipulate your immune system. Like I said before there could be some other really promising options for treatment and that a vaccine should not be the only recourse. If you want it then take it, but don't tell me or to force me to do something with my body I'm not comfortable with. I hold this same position with being pro choice as well. Your body is the only thing you should have control of. If you are not well you are at risk and are immune compromised there are a million things you could catch anyway that there are no vaccines for so maybe you should take some precautions. Do not force healthy people to do something that could harm them.
Hand washing and clean water are very important, no question. Neither of them do you any good, however, in the case of, say, measles, which is so contagious that you can catch it just by walking into a room where someone with measles has been, even an hour after they left.
The only way to protect against things like measles is a good vaccine. Side note: measles was almost eradicated in the world, until the anti vaccine movement entered the scene. Now measles outbreaks are starting to happen again, when there hadn't been any for decades. Why? Because some people are refusing life saving vaccines.
You're a fan of quoting the WHO. Here's their article about measles. Direct quote from that article, "Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 and widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every 2–3 years and measles caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year."
Unless we get a wide-spread vaccine for Covid-19, it could easily have similar statements made about it in 20 years. But that won't actually happen, because a safe vaccine WILL be developed. And even if people like you refuse to get it, you'll (luckily) still be protected by the herd immunity granted to the community overall, due to most other people getting said vaccine. Herd immunity is explained here (bonus - it also talks about measles as well).
Nice try with that link. I read most of it. It's not peer reviewed. And forgive me if I don't consider a professional politician (Robert Kennedy, author of the article) to be an unbiased expert on health concerns. I don't even consider him to be reliable, especially when he says thousands of girls were given a vaccine and in the same sentence says that 50 out of the 500 who got the vaccine had major side effects. Does 500 = thousands these days?
TLDR - the article you linked is one of the most obviously biased things I've read in quite a while, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of it is just plain false.
He gives embedded links for each of his claims. Check out his links. for example check out his claim about polio. He uses NPR a very reliable source. Here is the link he used https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/28/534403083/mutant-strains-of-polio-vaccine-now-cause-more-paralysis-than-wild-polio.
Don't be a big pharma stooge and buy all their lies. Follow the money.
NPR is, indeed, an excellent source of information. As I would expect from a reputable source like NPR, they get the information correct. Mr. Kennedy, however, twisted it quite dramatically.
As that NPR article states, vaccines do NOT cause Polio. They prevent it. However, when the live version of the vaccine is used, some of the virus gets out into the environment through excrement (when the kids poop). After that, the viruses sometimes "regained their ability to paralyze unvaccinated children." Leftover viruses from the vaccination process can infect people who have NOT been vaccinated. The vaccine itself does NOT cause the cases of Polio mentioned in the article. And by the way, there were a whopping 27 total cases of Polio reported anywhere in the world as of the writing of that article in that year (2017). Why such a small number of cases? I think by now the answer to that is crystal clear ...
Yet again, the argument that people SHOULD get vaccinated is reinforced, as the vaccine protects against all forms of Polio if you've been vaccinated (even vaccine-mutated forms).
they should just do something like a Nintendo Direct where they'll showcase the games and trailers.
But they'll still find a way to charge $50 for it so people can get the exclusive content for their blizz games
You mean like a type of... Virtual Ticket?! :)
Just move it to Azeroth.
Nah, they've got Hakkar, the Soulflayer's corrupted blood to deal with there.