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Blizzard to introduce Battle.net Balance

Posted by Radoslav "Nydra" Kolev 5 months ago

Blizzard will incorporate a new feature to their online platform Battle.net that is to provide alternative ways of buying company's products. Players will be able to store funds in their Bnet account and use them to purchase various goods both in-game and not.

Soon, we’ll be introducing a new feature called Battle.net Balance that will give players an alternate way to purchase Blizzard products and services directly through their Battle.net account. Players will be able to "charge up" their Battle.net Balance using a variety of payment methods, and then use their Battle.net Balance to buy services like World of Warcraft character transfers, digital products like pets and mounts, and more. Players will also be able to use their Battle.net Account Balance to buy items and store their earnings from Diablo III’s currency-based auction house once the game is released.

We’ll be rolling out the new Battle.net Balance feature in the weeks ahead -- but in the meantime, check out our Battle.net Balance FAQ to find out more about how it’s going to work.

The FAQ section reveals some more details on how this feature will work. Although charged up with real currency via debit cards, credit cards or alternative payment methods, players will not be able to convert their Balance funds back into real cash. To those fans that are looking forward to using the real money auction house in Diablo 3, the news might have a bad ring to it but Blizzard state that in certain regions, players will be able to cash out their AH winnings via PayPal, although for some additional fee. Players will also be allowed to combine both Battle.net Balance funds and real once to do purchases with the exception of auctioned Diablo III items.

Going back to Blizzard's upcoming action RPG, the company has clarified that the Auction House will not be exclusively connected to Battle.net Balance and players will still be able to use real currency to buy items of their liking.

In conclusion, Battle.net Balance is to have a limit of funds that can be charged up, plus it will be removed from any account not being used for over three years.

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jerrylo 5 months ago

cool story bro..

Gackt 5 months ago

"real money auction house in Diablo 3"

That part is just scary. Wow..there will be so many people who will pay for their gear n items I guess..so sad.

Nydra (StarCraft 2 team leader) 5 months ago

#2 Well, absence of such in D2 did not stop ppl for selling items for real money anyway so might as well...

Naugrim 5 months ago

Microsoft you better watch out, blizzard will be the new definition of "greed" in the near future.

TaShadan 5 months ago

#4 Kommerzzard already is

mg-ac 5 months ago

diablo3, destroyed by real $ auction house lol

ImtoR 5 months ago

And when I read the title I thought it was 'Blizzard finally decided to improve some features of the battle net'. Nope, it's about our money, silly me.

DrAkAx 5 months ago

Haha #4, so true. Don't they make enough money from WoW players and from the fact that people have to buy a new game if they want to play on another server ? C'mon Blizz don't become another money grabbing whorehouse :(

Nydra (StarCraft 2 team leader) 5 months ago

#8 Every company's goal is to make more money. That's corporate world 101. I don't see anything wrong here: If you don't want to use it, you don't use it. Some ppl will find the option to sell Diablo III items for WoW game time a nice one

#10

QueenSarah.780 5 months ago

Greed is good

#11

Love_Lockdown 5 months ago

omg get on with it, most people in this world wants to make money....so natural

#12

DrAkAx 5 months ago

Nahh, see one thing is making money and that's fine since it's the purpose of a business, and another is getting greedy (ref: Enron).

#13

betastarcraft 5 months ago

I want to watch a replay with my friends.

#14

meRzinator 5 months ago

An example of a company that wants to make money: Valve

An example of a company who is just plain greedy and develop all their products to result in people paying more money than they have to, or lure them into spending more: Blizzard.

Motivation: Valve releases a game, sells it for a full price, lets people enjoy it. While Blizzard releases 1/3 of a game and call the other thirds of the game "expansions" so that they can make 3 times the money. Also they always include a few minor options that are available if you pay a few extra bucks. See: Mounts, servers transfers, name changes, real money auction house.

What happened to the good old days when you bought a game and you played it, sometimes there was an addon to that game released which was called an expansion... not a plan to release a game in a few smaller parts. Or a plan to release a game and lure people into spending a minor fee for additional stuff.