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Battle.net 2.0 Details

September 03, 2008 in News comments 2

Battle.net 2.0 will debut with Starcraft II. There are dozens of new features including in-game voice chat and "eSports support". Diablo III will also use the same client.

Improved Battle.net In-Game Functionality
Any quote from Blizzard clearly states that while they won't talk much about Battle.net 2.0, we will be blown away or be very impressed. It's a given that all current features for Battle.net will be included - and improved! Blizzard has said they have learned a lot from WoW on infrastructure, and features from WoW will definitely also be seen. So Battlenet 2.0 WILL feature:

* Excellent Ping
* Channels and Chat in-game
* Ladders and Rankings, secured against cheating.
* Extended stats, with possibility to see who D/C etc (source)
* AMM-type Matchmaking
* Avatars, Images and Icons to represent yourself
* Diablo III Hardcore mode
* Friends/Ignore Lists with advanced management (see accounts below)
* Clan Support
* Automated Tournaments
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    bobbonew Sep 4, 08
    Well Diablo 3 is definitely going to be a new experience if IN-GAME chatting is to be expected. I can't really say that i'm going to be super impressed with the upgrades, expect of course for the voice chat.
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      AznLiquid Sep 4, 08
      Well, as an SC ladder player, I'm impressed by how far Blizzard is actually going to support the SC professional scene.

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      Frank Pearce: One of the features we are definitely working on improving and in integrating much better is the replay-functionality which is naturally important for the e-sports-community. We are working at better support for tournaments and leagues on battle.net so that there is a lot more facility in that regard. We are talking about things like cameraman-functionality which we already have in World of Warcraft as well.

      We are also talking about potential spectator�s functionality and things like that. We have an e-sports-team internally whose responsibility is to host the events that we run and also work for parties so that e-sports-team will be responsible for e-sport with StarCraft 2 as well.
      I can't really ask for more than that.

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