Local Currency Update Coming to Blizzard Battle.net® in Canada, Japan, and New Zealand

Later this year, we’ll be changing pricing on Blizzard Battle.net® from USD to local currency in Canada, Japan, and New Zealand. We’re excited to introduce the change. It’s a key step toward growing our service globally and making it easier for players in these regions to shop and manage their accounts with us. Once this change takes effect, local currency will be used for pricing across Battle.net and within all of Blizzard’s game shops. The same goes for any Blizzard Balance that players in these regions have stored with us, which will convert over to their local currency. Existing recurring World of Warcraft® subscriptions will not be affected and will continue using USD. However, any new or renewed subscriptions and pre-paid Game Time cards will be offered in their local currency. While we haven’t finalized the exact date, the switch in these regions is currently slated to take effect before the end of this year. At that time, all product pricing and any stored Blizzard Balance will be converted from USD to the local currency based on the rate provided by one of the major exchanges. For players in New Zealand, pricing will be inclusive of Goods and Services Tax (GST). We want to make as many of our players as possible feel at home in the Blizzard ecosystem, regardless of where they’re logging in from. We also want to make shopping with us seamless and easy. Switching to local currencies is a key step toward achieving this. Some of our customers will be able to avoid paying unnecessary transaction fees charged by banks and financial institutions. Furthermore, this change will also help us expand the types of payment we can accept, allowing us to add payment methods that we previously couldn’t offer because of their restrictions on transacting in USD. We’ll provide an update for our players in Canada, Japan, and New Zealand once we formally make the switch to their local currencies. In the meantime, we’ve put together a brief FAQ to provide you with more information on the coming changes. FAQ When are you switching to local currency in Canada, Japan, and New Zealand? Today, we announced that the change is coming and that it’s slated to take place before the end of the year. We will provide an update to players when the transition takes place. What products will be affected by these changes? The conversion to local currencies will affect all product pricing across Blizzard Battle.net® as well as all in-game shops and any stored Blizzard Balance. Any existing recurring World of Warcraft® subscriptions will continue to use USD. However, any new or renewed subscriptions and pre-paid Game Time cards will be offered in local currency. What happens to my stored Blizzard Balance? On the date that we make the switch in your regions, your stored Blizzard Balance will convert over to local currency. What rate Is Blizzard using to convert USD to my local currency? We will use the conversion rate provided by one of the major exchanges on the day we make the transition. Why did you decide to switch from USD to local currency in my region? This is an important step for growing our service globally, making it easier for our players around the world to shop and manage their accounts with us. Some of our customers will be able to avoid paying unnecessary transaction fees charged by banks and financial institutions We’re also able to accommodate more payment methods, adding ones we previously couldn’t offer because they have restrictions on transacting in USD. What currencies does Blizzard Battle.net support? Currently, Blizzard Battle.net supports the following currencies: USD, EUR, GBP, RUB, CNY, KRW, TWD, ARS, CLP, BRL, MXN, AUD. We will soon introduce support for JPY, CAD, and NZD. Blizzard Battle.net is still using USD in my region. When will you switch to my local currency? We’ll continually evaluate which new currencies to bring to Blizzard Battle.net, and we’ll update our players accordingly. What if my Blizzard Battle.net account is registered in the wrong country and I want to switch to my local region and currency? For help switching the region on your Blizzard Battle.net account, please go to: http://ift.tt/2iii37h. Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: Unless otherwise explicitly stated, all information, including forward-looking information, are current as of October 16, 2017 only. Blizzard and Activision Blizzard undertake no duty to update or revise any forward-looking information contained herein. For more detailed information, please refer to Activision Blizzard’s reports and filings with the SEC.

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Catch the Oktoberbrawl Finals LIVE at TwitchCon!

Four weeks of hard brawling has come down to this! Team Light and Team Void will settle their score once and for all in the Oktoberbrawl finals at TwitchCon this weekend. Scheduled for Oct. 20, the final showdown will kick off with a one game Wild match between Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime and Twitch CEO Emmett Shear. The two clashed last year in a bout that saw Emmett walk away the winner. Will Mike make an epic comeback this year? Taking the stage after that will be the teams Light and Void, consisting of personalities you know and have cheered on these past couple of months. TEAM VOID VS TEAM LIGHT Dog Kripparrian Thijs Reynad J4CKIECHAN Alliestrasza The teams will square off in a best-of-five match, with each player representing their team for at least one game. Both teams have earned sabotages over the last four weeks of Oktoberbrawl, and they will finally be able to use them against each other at the Oktoberbrawl Finals at TwitchCon! Sabotages Team Void holds three sabotages: opponent must wear gauntlets while playing their match; opponent is limited to 30 seconds per turn; opponent must voice one of their hero’s emotes before making their play. Team Light, on the other hand, holds just one sabotage: opponent must compete while in cosplay. A sabotage will only affect the player representing their team for that round, and can be awarded in any order. And the winner is... Team Light may have stumbled a little in their Oktoberbrawl rumbles, but they’ve also got vengeance burning beneath those card backs! Kripparian, Alliestrasza, and Reynad have major bones to pick with Team Void, who took the grudge matches 3-1 against them. It has been said that the comeback is real. Will we see Team Light end Oktoberbrawl with a flourish? Watch the showdown live on PlayHearthstone on Oct. 20, 2017. Broadcast will begin shortly after the TwitchCon opening address. Broadcast will begin shortly after the TwitchCon opening address. If you’re in the vicinity, you can also visit TwitchCon in person, and soak up the rowdy Oktoberbrawl atmosphere. Which sabotage are you most looking forward to? If it were up to you, which player would you pick to suffer that? Let us know in the comments—and we’ll see you there! Buy Tickets

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2017 Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest

The Halloween season has finally arrived, and we’re ready to cut straight to the heart of the holiday. If you're dying to pick up a knife and hack, slash, and jab at something, you’ll be excited to hear that Blizzard's 2017 Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest officially begins October 16! Unleash your magical axes, psi blades, sharpened claws, and other creative cutlery to carve up Blizzard-themed jack-o-lantern of impressive splendor. If you're unclear as to what that might look like in the (pumpkin) flesh, you can check out previous pumpkins for some inspiration.. We’ll choose five of the grandest autumnal squash to each receive $60.00 (USD) Blizzard Balance. Pumpkin Submission Tips The winning entries will display high levels of originality, craftsmanship, and possibly humor. Your pumpkin must be lit up by a candle or other light source in your photo entry. You should include another photo of the pumpkin unlit. Pumpkins must be related to the Blizzard game universes. Try to take the best picture possible, as picture quality helps make a good impression on the judges. Make sure you tell us what the pumpkin is supposed to be in the caption, just in case it's not clear. Don't delay, start carving right away! The fifteenth annual pumpkin carving contest ends October 25, so be sure to check out the contest page for rules and eligibility and get straight to slicing. Enter Contest

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HCT's First Championship Woman Impresses in LA

This weekend at the Blizzard Arena Los Angeles, the Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) has its first-ever woman competing in a seasonal championship. Wang 'BaiZe' XinYu is a well-known Hearthstone competitor in China, and became more of a household name in the Western scene after advancing to the playoffs of the 2017 Hearthstone Wild Open. Her prior performances in NetEase's Gold Series are all notable, but she's making a big entrance on the world stage at the HCT Summer Championship. Heading into the tournament, BaiZe was already making waves with her uniquely teched deck lists. She's modified a popular Token Shaman with Masters of Evolution, Cult Masters, and the tournament's only copy of Prince Taldaram. While her Zoo, Priest, and Tempo Rogue lists are more in line with what other players settled on, no other player brought the same lineup she did—in part because she's also the only person not playing Druid. Did BaiZe read the field better than her opponents? Read on to find out... On Friday we spoke to BaiZe about her career leading up to this moment—and she's had some exciting moments thus far. "I started last March with the regional playoffs; we call it the Super Premier, which is the equivalent of the regional HCT playoffs," she said. "This year, in June, I traveled to the U.S. for the Hearthstone Wild Open. Finally, in July, I played in the Summer playoffs." A lifetime Blizzard fan, BaiZe enjoyed Warcraft III and World of Warcraft before coming to Hearthstone. Besides playing the game professionally, she spends most of her time casting the game in China. What does she get up to outside of Hearthstone? "I enjoy reading and watching movies, and I've also started learning how to play the piano," she said. Though BaiZe is having fun, that isn't to say that she isn't feeling the pressure, too. "As a professional Hearthstone player, you always want to tell people that you have what it takes to perform on big stages and be great," she said. "I don't want to go out there and have people say to me that I'm just the best woman they've seen play the game. I don't like that. I want to go out there and prove myself." BaiZe's first series against Pavel 'Pavel' Beltukov on Friday was extraordinarily tense. She took a strong lead in the Shaman mirror, but Pavel tied up the series with his Tempo Rogue over her Highlander Priest. Arguably the best game of day one followed, with BaiZe skillfully navigating the Highlander Priest mirror. At one point, she made an unexpected call with the 5-cost potion from Kazakus, holding it to confuse Pavel's read of her hand, and then executed a powerful swing turn using Lyra the Sunshard after baiting Pavel into a defensive Priest of the Feast. Sadly, in the fourth game, BaiZe's Rogue deck fell to Pavel's Shaman, and game five was decided by a series of underwhelming draws for BaiZe as both players exhausted their hands. Regardless of the outcome, it was a thrilling series, and case in point why BaiZe has to some extent been the talk of the tournament. She is thankful for all the new fans she's accrued this weekend, and wishes they'd follow her on Weibo—a Chinese microblogging service similar to Twitter—but admits, "It might be a little tough for my Western fans!" Her whole heart has been in Hearthstone for the last few years, and she says she had been feeling as though she had hit a bit of a glass ceiling. "If I get another opportunity to compete in HCT, I'll come back much stronger," she proclaims, adding that her fans will still see her on the caster desk regardless. She also shared some insight into her much-discussed Shaman deck. "There are two Shaman cards that I dislike that are prevalent in most people's decks—Mana Tide Totem and Thing from Below," BaiZe said. "I don't think they're effective against all the Druids and Rogues. I wanted to switch to something that was more aggressive, and thought Masters of Evolution and Cult Masters would work. All of those 4-cost minions left room for Prince Taldaram, which is a flexible and very interesting card to play around." Watching BaiZe take on defending world champion Pavel and compete in Los Angeles has been amazing, and we hope to see her again in future tournaments. What did you think of her matches? Let us know in the comments!

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