Battle.net Unites Blizzard Games
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Heartbourne on
Sunday, March 22, 2009 -
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In the future, its likely that we will see "account wide achievements" and other such things. Its unclear how or if the older games will play into this, but you can be certain that Starcraft II, Diablo III, and the currently unannounced MMO that Blizzard is working on will use the new Battle.net heavily.

In addition, Blizzard annouced that the highly popular Blizzard authenticator will be available as an application for mobile devices, namely the iPhone and iPod touch. Its a great piece of equipment that improves account security. It is being re-branded as the Battle.net authenticator. The authenticator will work with all Battle.net games. Downloadable software is much easier to keep in stock than hardware, so hopefully this will provide players with a venue to get an authenticator. Price is not yet announced, and it may be free to increase account security. Since mobile devices (especially the iPod) must authenticate over the internet, I don't think its unlikely that an exploit to replicate the authenticator will happen at some point in the future.
Reader Comments (8)
nice post , really straightforward and very useful :) gz heart
first, nice.
Oh, sweeeeeet. Total Diablo and Starcraft nut right here: recently re-purchased the Starcraft Battlechest so I could play it on my mac. So much fun! It's a game that stands up to the test of time! Now if only Bliz can make the same thing happen with the old-school WoW content I'll be happy.
definitely a smart move on blizz's part to help their customers manage their gaming accounts with greater ease.
wooo, blizzard authenticator on the ipod touch nice! now i don't have to pay the damned 7 pound delivery charge to get it here in the uk.
This means no Steam for Blizzard games.
WOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!
lol at xylina learn to count ;p
Bleh. I am definintely leaving WoW out of this. I would rather not use my e-mail address as my account name. That's just dumb. May not even end up using it.