Blizzard Entertainment has announced that has been canceled, although the company does have plans for future live events this year.
While there won’t be an in-person or digital BlizzCon event for this year, Blizzard promises the event will return in future years, although it may have a different format.
BlizzCon will not be held in 2024 because Activision Blizzard is “approaching this year differently“. The “decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us,” and the event will return in the future, but there were hints that it may not have the same format as in previous years.
The event took on a digital format in 2021 before returning to an in-person event in 2023. There’s a possibility that the publisher may even be looking at a hybrid event.
Activision Blizzard does have “exciting plans for other industry trade shows and conventions like Gamescom”, although they’re making us wait to hear more about them.