IncGamers Diablo network site, Diii.net explored the Battle.net history and potential for the future in a feature article a few weeks ago, and are now releasing the second part, with all the juicy details of exactly what features have been definitively been confirmed. The gaming network for WarCraft, StarCraft and Diablo is getting a serious revamp.
The preview article looks at a large number of Blizzard quotes that have been puzzled together to show us a grander whole. Even though Blizzard have said that they are "not talking about it right now", it seems they might have said more about Battle.net 2.0 to different reporters than they think...
From the classic RPG to its mobile adaptation, let's rank every Diablo game from worst to best.
Finally some love for diablo 3, I completely agree with its placing! Very nice coop on the ps3 back in the day, but solo was a good grind as well, very enjoyable.
The only thing that irked me was buying the complete or ultimate edition or whatever and suddenly introducing a dlc that's not included.
Diablo 3 > Diablo 2. I tried D2 after playing D3 many times and didn't like that nearly as much as 3.
Leading domestic game companies have entered into an unprecedented competition to win orders for Starcraft, Blizzard's representative IP (intellectual property).
Weird MS is letting go of a good IP. I don’t mind it but hopefully the best dev wins and I’m not sure who that is outbid those.
What they are bidding for are exclusive rights to develop the IP. Microsoft/blizzard is essentially licensing it out to the highest bidder, not selling the IP.
I wonder if we'll see Starcraft Ghost come out of this. And if we do, I wonder if it'll be a free-to-play gacha game.
Given the potential developers, looks inevitable there will be free to play gacha versions. But given south korea’s love for starcraft there would be one that is inline with starcraft 1&2.
Might want to expect some sort of backdoor cheat that only south koreans know of lol 🤣
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it's fun to speculate. i don't think bliz is innovative enough to include a bunch off social networking type features, but they might surprise us yet.
I'm just wondering if this will include StarCraft, WarCraft II and Diablo II.
Battle.net 2.0? Sounds dangerously close to 'Web 2.0' and we all know how naff that was...
Lets just hope Blizzard doesn't go overboard and actually keeps the things which are good about Bnet now. Really don't want something like Steam making the installs very difficult (I don't want to buy a DVD in store and then have to download over two gig of rubbish just to install it like the Half Life episodes, that's what the DVD is for)
The article is very tight, and very accurate. I just returned from PAX, where we interviewed 3 different Blizz reps about the 3 big games. They mentioned the Battle.net upgrades specifically, and how they think they are going to contribute massively to the online gaming experience with Blizz games. They are working HARD to make Battle.Net a positive, very easy to use bit of software.
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Heh, the author messed up Diablo and StarCraft in the Achievement paragraph.
Besides that, though, it was an interesting article to read indeed, having an AMM system for StarCraft 2 will certainly make the game even more appealing to me.