After 20 years acknowledge the Blizzard now with the Battle.net-the – name- Gamer.en

Blizzard has decided to get rid of the Battle.net-name. From now on, the company will simply call its service the “Blizzard”. All functionality will remain as before, and the only thing that is changed is how the company reviews services. The change will happen gradually in the course of the coming months.

Now a day this is the client window that most people still associate the Battle.net with. Image: Blizzard

” We’re just going to refer to it as the Blizzard technology instead. You have already seen this recently with things like “Blizzard Streaming” and “Blizzard Voice”, and more changes are on the way, telling the company about the change.

At first glance it seems the change is perhaps unnecessary, actually it’s pretty logical. Ever since the launch of World of Warcraft in 2004 has all the games Blizzard had a very big focus on online gaming, and all games passed now through a separate client for the service. So why not just call everything “Blizzard”, first as last?

This is also blizzard’s argument. It was necessary to provide nettspillingen his own name in his time, since the concept was fairly new and needed explanation.

Over time we have seen that having two different identities – the Blizzard and Battle.net – has led to some confusion and has been ineffective. Given that flerspillerstøtte is an established and expected concept now, is it not a great need to maintain a separate identity for it as the bottomline is, our network technology, says the company.

20 years of fun

So so Battle.net out in StarCraft. Image: S@bre, Wikimedia,

Since the start of service in november 1996 with a launch in tandem with Diablo – have Battle.net grown and developed in line with the spillandskapet. In the beginning there was talk about a simple chat service with the gaming sessions that you could join in, but eventually developed the service to get rankeringstavler, kampfinning and much more.

another aspect of Battle.net is that, in practice, served as a copy protection for blizzard’s games starting with StarCraft. One could only log on to the online service if you had a valid CD-key.

World of Warcraft was not actually a part of Battle.net before the 2009. Up to then used the massive nettrollespillet their own solutions.

Did you know how Diablo was for? 21 years ago delivered a small developer this document to the Blizzard – one year later was Diablo launched “