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For the first BlizzCon in 2005, it took three weeks for the tickets to sell out.To start, the crowd was shown a highlight video from this July's Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris. It might as well have been a BlizzCon preview video: lots of people in costume, big tournaments, game presentations, and performances by the Video Games Live orchestra and Blizzard's in-house band, Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain Level 80 Elite Tauren Deathknight. (Both will be performing again at Saturday night's closing ceremonies, as well as comedian Patton Oswalt.)Morhaime then turned to Blizzard's upcoming games, with the first being the Lich King expansion, being released November 13th. "Northrend will be open, and Arthas will be waiting," said Morhaime. For the release, thousands of stores will be having midnight openings, and Blizzard employees will be attending a select few of the events.The biggest news of the keynote came when Morhaime turned his attention to Diablo III. Of the game's five classes, only two had been announced so far: the Barbarian and the Witch Doctor. But for BlizzCon, Morhaime revealed the game's third class, the Wizard, to an ovation from the crowd. (Although to be fair, there were probably very few classes that the crowd wouldn't have whooped it up for.) Additionally, an early multiplayer demo of Diablo III with all three classes is playable at the show.There was surprising little news on the StarCraft II front. We'd wondered going into the show how far along the wow gold game might be.