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Blizzard has announced that tickets for Blizzcon ‘09 will go on sale May 16th with a second batch going on sale May 30th. Ticket prices are set at $125. The convention will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center on August 21 and 22. For those unable to make it, DirecTV is once again selling a pay-per-view of the event for $40.

This year they are making some real changes to how the ticket sales will work in order to avoid the horrid experience customers had last year attempting to purchase tickets. This year, a new queue system will be used to purchase tickets. This system functions much like the dreaded login queues seen when attempting to log into WoW during heavy usage periods. The basic purchase process will be as follows:

1. Create a battle.net account. This should be done ahead of time to avoid having to spend the time doing so while “competing” for tickets.

2. You will enter a queue and taken to a page that will display your position in the queue and the estimated amount of time before you will be able to make your purchase.

3. If you make it to the front of the queue before tickets are sold out, you will have a limited amount of time to complete your purchase. Once at the head of the queue, you will have 15 minutes to complete your purchase.

Hopefully the new queue system and major upgrades to their online store will allow for a much less stressful process of trying to get Blizzcon tickets. The official page detailing the new purchase queue system is available here.

Blizzard has just announced that they will be hosting Blizzcon 2008!

Blizzcon 2008 will be hosted at a convention center in Anaheim California on October 10th and 11th.  This time the convention center will be able to support up to 50% more visitors for Blizzcon.  Tickets will be $100 and are set go on sale August 11th.

For those of you who may not know what Blizzcon is here is a quick rundown of things you would expect to see there:

• You would get the chance to using gaming stations and play many of the upcoming betas, most likely to include; Starcraft 2, Wrath of the Lich King (Most Likely New and Upcoming Raid Dungeons), and possiblly some Diablo III coverage!
• You will hear the Game Developers give talks and presentations about upcoming plans for game releases and the like.
• There will definitely be a major gaming tournament set for this event too, you can count on that.
• Those who attend are usually given a large grab bag too, that includes many neat and valuable items for Blizzard Gamers.
• Last but not least Blizzard usually saves one big announcement for this event.

There is a confirmed project that Blizzard is currently working on they have not announced to the public at all yet.  This would be about the right time frame and the perfect setting for Blizzard to announce what this project is.

On the contrary, will Blizzard really want to release details from this before they even release WotLK?  It may be hard to keep an interest in so many developing projects all at once… as always with speculation… only time will tell!

The last interesting Tidbit is taht Blizzcon will be broadcasted through DirectTV on a Pay Per View channel.  With a customer base of 20 million plus this is a rather interesting idea, and we will have to wiat and see how successful it is.  I know I would much rather enjoy the sunny skies of Cali in October!