Blizzard Battle.Net
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"Your gateway to all things Blizzard." |
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Blizzard Battle.net is an online DRM that was founded by Blizzard Entertainment during December 31, 1996, along with Diablo. Mainly it's one of the first online gaming service that incorporated games that make use of it.
During March 20, 2009, Blizzard reveal Battle.net and its revamped features, this will be the first of a long line of rebranding and name changing of the launcher.
Blizzard Gear
The Blizzard Gear part of the launcher's website, leads to Blizzard's very own store were merchandise about their games can be sold, some of these items can only be bought there alone, while others are not exclusive and can be bought at third-party stores.
Tropes used in Blizzard Battle.Net include:
- Adaptation Name Change: Blizzard keeps doing this, the client's first name was Battle.net, until it went through several iterations until it became its' current name.
- Can't Drop the Client: Played straight for Blizzard's recent PC versions of their games.
- Cool Old Guy: Battle.net was one of the oldest PC gaming clients, it came out during 1996.
- Digital Avatar: The profile images that one can choose or customize.
- Digital Distribution
- DRM: It's another application to install into the PC.
- Full-Name Basis: Blizzard had users used their real names in the forums, just to cut down on "flame wars."
- Averted, when they got rid of this feature due to criticism.
- No Export for You: If one wants Blizzard games, one must make a Blizzard account to buy them.
- Same for some of their merchandise.
- Don't forget some of Activision's own games, like the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Destiny 2.
- Meaningful Rename: The original Battle.net is still around, so it was renamed into "Battle.net Classic".
- The Merch: It's Blizzard Entertainment gear for the horde!
- Recycled Title: The new names for the client still has some form of "Battle.net".
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: There's a molock in the Blizzard Gear's store page, pushing a cart and trying to get some last minute shopping done.
- Screwed by the Lawyers: Blizzard forced bnetd, an Open Source Blizzard.net server emulator, to stop.
- Swiss Cheese Security: On August 4, 2012, hackers hacked the North American Battle.net servers by getting access to users' personal stuff, like e-mail addresses. Blizzard had to tell their customers to change all their passwords.
- Weird Currency: Played straight that gamers can convert their World of Warcraft gold into credit, doing this can having some extra game currency for buying virtual goods from games, like Overwatch and Hearthstone.