Blizzard has unveiled a new design for Battle.net complete with new features and functionality. The development of a "new Battle.net" has been hinted at for a long time in anticipation for the upcoming releases of both Starcraft II and Diablo III.
The new Battle.net is an upgrade to all preexisting Blizzard Accounts tied to Starcraft, Diablo 2, and Warcraft 3. Owners of World of Warcraft have an option to merge all of their accounts to the new service.
Be sure to check out the new Battle.net Account FAQ too, as it may answer many of your questions regarding the new system.
When we get D3 / SC2 will we have to register those games on our Battle.net accounts and then log into Battle.net via the game using our email addresses as the account names? That'll be weird
"As an example, we just found out that Diablo III players will possibly deal with all their trading directly by whispers in the new network. With this in mind, we can expect many simple and useful features directly in the system."
"the new Battle.net will be built on programming that prevent any form of hacking or cheating. Taking several lessons from WoW in that regard, "duping" in Diablo III will be come impossible."
-Leord(Starcraftwire.net)
Both of those are news to me. I'm really glad they are putting or at least trying to put a stop on duping. Plus I can't wait to get the scoop on the trading and how it's handled through whispers.
Kaplan: Your 'WoW' score would be just one factor that will go into your Blizzard Level. And rather than call it a 'score,' we just wanted it to be like you're leveling up on Blizzard games' You'll have this Blizzard identity, and you'll be able to see things like 'Oh, this guy was great at Diablo III, but he never played Starcraft and he was mediocre in WoW. That sort of thing.
1. We knew that trading via chat/whispers will be possible. They didn't give a 100% confirmation but said that they want to do it and are looking into it.
2. They don't have to 'try' to put a stop on duping. That's a thing of the past.
1. We knew that trading via chat/whispers will be possible. They didn't give a 100% confirmation but said that they want to do it and are looking into it.
2. They don't have to 'try' to put a stop on duping. That's a thing of the past.
I was just posting to let me people know the relevant D3 information. I didn't know about this stuff, so maybe some other people don't. Unless you speak for everyone....
That being said, a number of you have said it's not open to EU yet. Don't know if that's the case or not, but I registered an account on the US site, and it could perfectly well select Sweden as my country of choice. Wouldn't make much sense to put that option in there if the accounts were to be region specific now would it?
Besides, why should it be regions specific? It's not like someone out there has the same mail as you do
EDIT: Nvm, I see you were talking about WoW accounts.
Made my new battle.net account last night, merged my WoW account with it and added all my blizzard games. I don't know about you guys but I'm pretty excited about this new system.
There's still a big problem with the new battle.net..
When i add a game and choose a language.. i can't change it.. for example: I choosed "English (US) for diablo 2.. but i want 'English (EU)".. so now i can't change it to EU.. i hope they will add an option to change it soon.. if not.. it's very strange.. i think i'm gonna mail them for that issue..
I've actually been thinking about this for quite some time now. The whole idea of the chat system that will be in the game. I have a huge hunch that Blizzard is going to start following models like Steam, and along the same lines Microsoft is going with their Live program.
I have a feeling that Battlenet 2.0 is going to be all inclusive. I think that there's going to be one central login to battlnet that harbors your entire account. You can then link your characters from Blizzard games, and their subscriptions to your Bnet account. So for instance... if you played WoW and SC2, you could manage both from one central login account. Linking to a central profile with your stats and acheivements, rankings, and such from both games. Then when you buy Diablo 3, you just add that cd key to your account and now you can use your Bnet account to log into Diablo 3 and it will link all the characters you make to that.
Now as far as the social system goes. I have a feeling there is going to be a new overlay system that allows you to send and receive messages from buddies playing any blizzard games. So you could say... look at your buddy list while you're raiding, and see that your cousin is playing SC2 in some kind of tournament, and you send him a message you'll be done with your raid in like an hour, so he saves you a spot in the tourney. And then when you're done, you go load up SC2 and play. Meanwhile, you're doing the tourney and you get a message from your 2v2 partner that he's on and wants to play, so when you get knocked out of the tourney, you go back and play 2v2.
Something like that... I'm sure if they had a system similiar to this, there would of course be the ability to have chat channels and all that...
Barring all this, and I'm 100% wrong and Blizzard doesn't use a Steam-like model... I'm sure there will be the chat channels of old that clans, friends, and groups can make\moderate\use alike. I highly doubt they'd take away that element.
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Posted Mar 20, 2009I think Lydeck's got it right.
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Posted Mar 20, 2009http://www.starcraftwire.net/articles/comments/definite-battlenet-20-features/P0/
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Posted Mar 20, 2009"the new Battle.net will be built on programming that prevent any form of hacking or cheating. Taking several lessons from WoW in that regard, "duping" in Diablo III will be come impossible."
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Both of those are news to me. I'm really glad they are putting or at least trying to put a stop on duping. Plus I can't wait to get the scoop on the trading and how it's handled through whispers.
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Posted Mar 20, 20092. They don't have to 'try' to put a stop on duping. That's a thing of the past.
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Posted Mar 20, 2009I was just posting to let me people know the relevant D3 information. I didn't know about this stuff, so maybe some other people don't. Unless you speak for everyone....
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Posted Mar 20, 2009[Zergling Kill] Kill your enemy with only zerglings in 6:00 minutes.
Yea...drooling now...
Edit: Just hope it's not like RE5's Xbox Live achievements... [Step] You have taken a step. Five hundred points!
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Posted Mar 20, 2009I repeat. Fucking awesome!
That being said, a number of you have said it's not open to EU yet. Don't know if that's the case or not, but I registered an account on the US site, and it could perfectly well select Sweden as my country of choice. Wouldn't make much sense to put that option in there if the accounts were to be region specific now would it?
Besides, why should it be regions specific? It's not like someone out there has the same mail as you do
EDIT: Nvm, I see you were talking about WoW accounts.
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Posted Mar 20, 2009Nice new Battle.net.
Looks good.
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Posted Mar 20, 2009When i add a game and choose a language.. i can't change it.. for example: I choosed "English (US) for diablo 2.. but i want 'English (EU)".. so now i can't change it to EU.. i hope they will add an option to change it soon.. if not.. it's very strange.. i think i'm gonna mail them for that issue..
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