Following many other developers, Blizzard is hitting pause on its Shadowlands reveal livestream so “more important voices” can be heard.
We are now entering our third week of protest following the senseless and tragic death of George Floyd, a name that has become a rallying cry against racism and police brutality around the world. The Black Lives Matter movement is still marching the streets of every major metropolis shouting a simple message: enough is enough.
It’s a message that no company wants to get in the way of, and Blizzard is wisely delaying the reveal of their latest WoW expansion, Shadowlands, in order to make room.
"More important voices than ours need to be heard, and now is the time to listen,” Blizzard wrote on Twitter last Friday. “We are postponing our upcoming World of Warcraft: Shadowlands livestream planned for June 9, and will share more details about the expansion in the future."
This follows in the steps of IGN, Activision, Sony, and others that are delaying important announcements that we have collectively discovered to be not actually all that important. We have yet to receive a release date for either Shadowlands or the new date for the livestream reveal, but we’ll be sure to keep you apprised.
Source: Twitter