No Blizzard At E3 2009

Blizzard Entertainment will not be attending or participating in E3 2009.

Blizzard is too good for E3. They have their own freakin convention.

Not really any point for Blizzard to go to anything other than Blizzcon

With their own Blizzcon convention, always getting bigger and bigger... there's really no point for them to be there. They are too mammoth for it.

Renegades!

I'm wondering if insted of "rep for the company confirmed to us"  you guys could just write 'Bob told us' , because i'm guessing that is the case ;)

Blizzard is too cool for E3.

Hopefully it wont be as late as october this year, that felt way too late. Lemme see the DIablo 3 classes, darn you.

Why pay to be some place when you can have people pay for you to be at another? Makes sense, right?

Sucks, but oh well.

That sucks.  I know ive been overly optimistic of hoping for D3 this year, and this only reaffirms that its likely not till 2010 that we will see it.  Unless something comes up at say GDC, which I doubt, there isnt alot of hope.

E3 is shit anymore anyway. Why would bliz want to have to give something to attend E3 when they have their own thing far better for themselves and their fans?

Doesn't really matter, considering Blizzcon is the shit for them.

Most developers have a slew of games they can show off at E3 anyway. Blizzard has 3 franchises, two of which have games currently in development. There's no point in showing up for two games.

Who cares both SC2 and D3 look like reskinned versions of the old games. D3 at least had advantage in that no game that has ever tried to cop it has done what it did better. SC2 on the other hand has been surrpassed many times over as far as any real strategy gamer is concerned.

Blizzard would get lost in the other mediocrity at E3...
I want to see those games so bad though.

@big_weasel

Blizz has more than two games in development.

No Diablo III at E3 then, oh well.

Well, it's good to hear that Prototype will be stopping by.

The gods take their time :P. Blazer is a noob :P. SC2 will top all strategy games, only one i think it wont is Warcarft for the real time tactics it has, ive played and finished more or less every strategy game that had good reviews, and even though i cant say starcraft 1 is better than all of them, i can say that even though its like 10 years old its still better than about 60 per cent of strategy games that come out nowdays. W3 is the king so far :p, the custom map settings especially make it stand out. Diablo 3 looks soooo sweet, that physics system, the barbarian who used to be the most boring clas to play... he just looked soo freaking sweet

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I want Diablo 3!!!! At least like, something!!! v.v Oh well, there are other shows, and I'm sure they will continue to trickle out info over time as they have been since the announcement.

Blizzard could make their own gaming industry if they really wanted to.

I'm bored with Blizzard anyway for its lack of non-MMO games

Oh well. I'll just have to be patient.

I really cant see how E3 would even make sense for Blizzard at this point. They have Blizzcon anyway.

Blizzard is to good for E3!

its not like anyone cares about some second rate devs like blizzard anyway...

Bottom line is they're working on SC II and Diablo III. They don't want to release anymore info on either one, so they'll just sit back and wait for BlizzCon. Not a shocker.

to waste exclusive twists at E3 is a bucket full of retardedness when revealing twists at Blizzcon will obviously continue to boost Blizzcon to a Britney Spears level of fame. fuck E3. 

Or WWI. That's where they announced D3 after all. It's good news for gamers too because attending E3 is a massive time sink. I'd much prefer they all kept focused on developing. Beside, E3 does my head in with all the exhibitors competing for attendee's attention - it' s beyond noisy.