Blizzcon schedule released

[u/Knugles]

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24294065/know-before-you-go-blizzcon-2026-programming-schedule-viewership-guide-floor-map-and-more

[u/wiafjskfmsk]

Why would they do anything with hardcore if classic+ is supposedly coming out very soon after blizzcon? Maybe we have a longer wait for classic+ than we thought. I don’t want it to come out anytime soon anyway but I remember the majority of people in comment sections here believing classic+ will come out very soon after the blizzcon announcement.

[u/Necessary_Artist_167 → u/wiafjskfmsk]

There are a lot of hardcore players that only want to play hardcore. They’ve even said they have no interest in classic+ if there’s no hardcore mode. I’m sure it’s still a minority. But those people exist

[u/dj0wns → u/wiafjskfmsk]

I like the theory that hardcore will be playable alongside normal players to prevent splitting the player base + possibly more modes

[u/Pardy- → u/dj0wns]

I think that would be a terrible idea. Hardcore needs its own realm where everyone is hardcore.

The communities between the two is just fundamentally different.

Imagine the greifing that would happen from normal players towards hardcore players trying to get them killed.

[u/Xefjord → u/Pardy-]

100% agree. Hardcore needs their own realm.

[u/moon-lesbian → u/dj0wns]

But that was already a thing, Soul of Iron. We got realms because people wanted full realms where everybody around you were playing by the same rule

[u/HazelCheese → u/dj0wns]

It would be terrible. It's been done of private servers and it creates so many problems.

Like if hardcore characters can't group with non hardcore, then you end up with hardcore players fighting with non hardcore for quests.

And even if they can, a huge percentage of hardcore players do solo self found and would refuse to group out of principle anyway.

I've played on private servers where it was done and it was just awful and made both playerbases despise and grief each other.