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As mentioned in the diii article about Blizzard’s game network, most of Battle.net 2.0 is still tightly under wraps, and while the Diablo III forum spam we have seen for the past month has been most annoying, a complete solution to that problem will wait until StarCraft II’s release, sources tell us. This is of course unfortunate, but if the situation slips out of control completely, Blizzard will do something drastic, like software upgrades, or closing down the forums and reserve it for ‘blue’ posts. Regardless, the next version of Battle.net should be upon us soon and this is what we have been able to squeeze out of Blizzard reps that WILL be in the gaming network:

Definite Battle.net 2.0 Features

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

As an example, we just found out that Diablo III players will possibly deal with all their trading directly by whispers in the new network. With this in mind, we can expect many simple and useful features directly in the system.

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