BlizzCon 2010

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.

• Diablo
• Diablo III fifth and final class revealed: Demon hunter.

• StarCraft
• Brand-new mod, Blizzard DOTA revealed

• Discussion panels with Blizzard Entertainment developers
• Art Panel
• Class Panel
• Dungeons and Raids panel
• Quests and Lore Q&A
• Open Q&A
• 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 Rules and Applications.
• Live community chats

• $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.

• 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)

• 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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