BlizzCon 2010

BlizzCon 2010
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Announced	March 25
Dates	October 22 - 23
Attended	27,000+
Performer(s)	Tenacious D, Jay Mohr
Website	BlizzCon.com
Floor map
Chronology
← 2009	2011 →

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. The Virtual Ticket was introduced with this convention at $40 USD.

Summary

Diablo

Diablo III fifth and final class revealed: Demon hunter.

StarCraft

Brand-new mod, Blizzard DOTA revealed

Activities

BlizzCon 2010 Event Schedule

Art Panel

The Art Panel was presented by:

Rob Flit, Scene Game Producer
Chris Robinson, Art Director
Eric Browni, Lead Prod Artist
Thomas Blu, Lead Technical Artist and Lead Character Artist
Wendy Vader, Dungeon Art Lead
Gary Prodner, Lead Environment Artist

Class Panel

The Class Panel was presented by:

Greg Street, Lead System Designer
Chris Hirhud
Owen Landren
Ian Asicost
Chris Gliky

Dungeons and Raids panel

The developers covered more details about the then-upcoming Cataclysm expansion on the BlizzCon 2010 Dungeons and Raids panel.

Quests and Lore Q&A

The Quests and Lore Q&A panel at BlizzCon 2010 was presented by Chris Metzen, Vice President of Creative Development and Alex Afrasiabi, Lead World Designer.

Other activities

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
Live community chats

Tickets

BlizzCon 2010 Tickets

$150.00 USD per ticket (up from BlizzCon 2009, +$25.00 USD)
$39.95 USD per virtual ticket
- DIRECTV customers could order a Pay-per-view stream for the same price starting October 4, 2010. There was also a promotion that if you signed up for DIRECTV service between July 26 - September 24, 2010, then you would get the Pay-per-view for free.
- Went on sale on July 26, 2010
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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