Last year, quite a few of us in the whole fansite and gaming press community heard the same refrain over and over again. So let’s mull over the fact that for the first time in years Blizzard won’t be making a trip to Gamescom to discuss what they’ve got coming down the pipe. But the great thing about speculation is, it doesn’t require us to actually know for sure before we start doing that speculation.

Of course, we don’t know why they won’t be there. So the announcement that Blizzard won’t be attending Gamescom 2019 comes as a fairly big surprise. What I’m getting at in my usual meandering way is that for the past few years, going back to at least 2016, Gamescom has been a really big deal for Blizzard Entertainment. In 2016, Eichenwalde was featured for Overwatch, we got the Reinhardt short film, and of course Legion was announced. In 2018, they did reveals and features throughout the entire convention, including Diablo 3 on the Switch getting a significant preview, Mephisto coming to Heroes of the Storm, and details on the Collector’s Edition for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. In 2017, Blizzard did a really big Gamescom reveal, with Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and World of Warcraft all seeing fairly large announcements, as well as Overwatch dropping the Mei short video for folks.

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