Blizzard Q2 2009 Conference Call Transcript

Diablo3x is offering up a transcript of Activision-Blizzard’s recent conference call, in which Mike Morhaime discusses the results of 2009’s second quarter. The primary topic seems to be StarCraft II, but World of Warcraft, the Warcraft movie, Battle.net, BlizzCon, and Diablo III get some limited coverage, too.

I’ve talked a lot about our player community. You may or my not be aware of how passionate and intense that community can be. A good opportunity to witness the Blizzard gaming community in action will be at our fourth Blizz-con convention, which will take place on August 21st and 22nd in Anaheim. Like our previous shows, this one sold out in minutes, despite the fact that we sold more tickets than ever before, 20,000 this time around.

At Blizz-con, the attendees will play our unreleased games, they will watch world champion gamers compete, they will hear panel discussions by our designers, and also share their thoughts about our games. And for those who weren’t able to buy tickets, we will offer the show live via pay-per-view on DIRECTV and over the Internet. If you are looking for a measure of the force of our gaming community and how it shapes our company, Blizz-con is it. I hope some of you will have the opportunity to attend this year and see for yourself.

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I would just like to reiterate that we haven’t announced any release dates on any future titles. And I will also reiterate that the move of Starcraft into next year does not impact the schedule and so it would be correct to conclude that you could expect two releases of Blizzard next year but I would not make any conclusion on what those titles are going to be.