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New Details For Battle.net 2.0
The folks over at DIII.net combed through information from Blizzard employees about the revamped Battle.net that is slated to debut with Starcraft II. New features will include Achievements for various old and new Blizzard games, improved communication and community features, and better replay and spectating functionality.
Seriously, isn't this what Microsoft and Sony have done for consoles and other game companies have already done for the PC? I wouldn't expect it to be big news that Starcraft 2 will be expected to keep up with features Battlefield 2, Team Fortress 2, and Supreme Commander have.
One step forward, two steps back! Cha cha cha! Thanks guys, but some of us do, you know, LAN?
Sounds alot like some software named after vaporized H2O!
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Congratulations! You have unlocked the OCD Compulsive Tidiness Achievement for Diablo 2.
You picked up every single pile of gold, potion, ring, scroll, armor and weapon from the Blood Moor all the way to the Throne of Baal.
Resolution greater than 600 x 800? Really?
>> Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down.
Currently, Warcraft III requires your password to be 3 characters long and is case insensitive (clod). Hopefully the newer version will include some revamped security...
(I've only tested this with Warcraft III, not sure about other games).
Congrats You just Lurker rushed a noob! ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!
I hope this is zealotry on behalf of the fansite rather than Blizzard developers actually claiming (with a straight face) that Diablo III will be unhackable. Diablo III will be hacked, in the same way that every Blizzard game has been hacked, in the same way that virtually every retail game on the market has been hacked. The true test will be how vigilant Blizzard is in policing this sort of thing, how quickly they can patch compromised releases, their ability to prevent cheaters from poisoning the community at-large.
Is it just me or is the one detail still lacking the issue of cost? As this is now a new service (2.0), might it not be assumed that Blizzard will charge for it?
Did I miss a bullet point where they assure us all it will be free?
australian servers or i'm not buying d3 you cheap bastards. thankyou.
Does this work with BnetD?
What features are not supported by this update?
What backward compatibility is supported?
When will BnetD be updated to work with Battle.net 2.0?
The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done shall not interrupt the one who is doing it.
There may just be a bnetd 2.0 in the near future... I have yet to see every hacker fail at breaking the piracy wall that Blizzard keeps rebuilding. (not hacking into battle.net; think private servers) Perhaps running private battle.net servers will be the answer to playing LAN games - who knows.
they'll compel you into their courtroom in the sponsership of their judge to rule how odd your fantasyland activities of Goatse Taco-Felcher Daggonmut (clvl 69 ass-grabber) is evidence that you are not to be within 50' of a minor and conditional release from the Court as to be a registered "public offender."
Perhaps this is just feeding the troll... but do you have any evidence that Blizzard has done anything of the sort? I'm quite sure that if there were such an occurrence, the news would have been all over Slashdot, and yet I can recall nothing...
My favorite feature from the bullet list, -Excellent ping. What's the meme? You're doing it wrong?
HeronBlademaster,
I didn't call anyone or even would label you a troll. I hear you easily because none have painted you.
Who labeled that post as troll you think? If Slashdot was an open system, then it would actually display the moderations with the userID of the moderator. You speak of such an occurence of 'news' from a corporation that was never part of the "freedom of speech" clause. What entitled you ever to be a champertain or to hear the skirmish of someone that you aren't party with? That's not gospel on the tube you feed your eyes from, it's Your programming; to be more diametrically aware to your surroundings to the adjusted socially-comparative behavioral negation between Obamma and McCain. Why didn't you hear of the 1,000 other candidates that you didn't know about, that are more qualified than Paris Hilton?
I've been hitting the books on this, and I posted enough website URL's to entice discussion, yet am labeled "troll" by an anonymous administrator wanting to push the thought aside. Here is how I see Vivendi/MTV's Blizzard Inc:
(1)the 3 main/original developers have left the company, and are not on the corporate payroll, and evidence was they were not comfortable with what the company has become yet by non-compete clause can't speak their actual thoughts or will be sued.
(2)every title feels like its Warcraft3 with improvements and image/environmental changes.
(3)as all likeness to U.S., is evincing a service economy that will draw usability into a post-purchase fee that will never end.
(4)the receipt from the store clerk doesn't represent the implication of Vivendi/MTV's Blizzard license that somehow forces the end-user to grant permission to Blizzard to administer the console computer through termination of accounting, exposure to lawsuits derived by use, non-payment of a service fee places an inferior use on the title and product independent of their domain, etc.
(5)sporting events recognized throughout the world...that bleed into public exhibitions that are prohibited by same license agreement yet waived upon passage of large sums of cash.
Blizzard has become a double standard. I'm satanic and look at how lame their representation of satan has somehow made its way into their lame Diablo title. People actually pay for this libel? Do you see me mis-representing the Catholic church as though they were a bunch of godly, god-fearing/loving people that don't intend any illwill or germ warfare on their neighbors? I just want to worship satan without a bunch of canibals dressing in Christian, Catholic, and Budhist clothing looking to devoure all that my kind have built up in universality.
Having no LAN play worked so well for Hellgate: London I can see why Blizzard would be aching to leave it out of D3
You must have quit playing D2 early on, because there was way more than just the constant dupe bugs. You don't recall that when logging in to the closed realms, the server asked the client wether the character was realm or open? Meaning, people created insane impossible gear on open characters, then modified them to say they were realm chars and logged in and gave the gear to their real realm chars. Any company that is capable of this kind of stupidity will have their games hacked. Just like how WoW has the client tell the server your position, and the server just blindly accepts this. MMOGs weren't that stupidly written in 1997, how the hell is blizzard managing this level of incompetance still?