Blizzard has announced that the Battle.Net Balance is now live. With the new service, players can purchase digital products through the upcoming Diablo 3 auction house as well as purchase digital downloads of all Blizzard's games and game time cards for World of Warcraft.

In the near future, players will be also able to use Battle.net Balance for the digital World of Warcraft Battle Chest and WoW digital upgrades. In addition, with the upcoming launch of Diablo III, players will have the option to use Battle.net Balance to buy and sell items in the game’s currency-based auction house.

Read the full post on the Diablo 3 site.

One. Step. Closer?

Almost here!

Time for some Diablo 3 !

I find their choice of names for this rather interesting.  Taking your cut off RMT'ers and calling the service 'balance'  very nicely sums up Blizzards goals.

Originally posted by amitava82
Did I not read somewhere that players will be able to sell items for real money?

Originally posted by Battle.net Balance FAQ
In certain regions, Diablo III players may choose to receive cash, rather than add to their Battle.net Balance, from the sale of an item from the currency-based auction house.

http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/battle-net-balance-frequently-asked-questions-faq#q-3

For a moment i had hope, that they cut it completely after removing it from the Korean version..

last i heard its still planned.

How long will my Battle.net Balance remain in my account? Will it ever expire?



Depending on local laws and regulations, we may be required to remove the Battle.net Balance from any Battle.net account. There are region-specific expiration dates for balance.

so whats the point on them making BNB? it look to me that its just a alternative to rmt.

1.  Put €50 up there

2. Buy something for €30

3. Blizzard removes €20 because of whatever

4. ???

5. Profit! (for Blizzard)

I wouldn't even wonder if they manage to keep the rest, instead of retuning it (or the simply remove it, bad enough), after what i heard about companies like PayPal, who essentially did something like this, keeping money they (according to their own statement) never were allowed to accept.

Originally posted by WhiteLantern

One. Step. Closer?

For Diablo 3 to launch or for Wow to become a F2P game with an extensive itemshop?

I wonder if this impact Titan as well and if they plan to use real money AH in it as well?

Originally posted by SBFord

Blizzard has announced that the Battle.Net Balance is now live. With the new service, players can purchase digital products through the upcoming Diablo 3 auction house as well as purchase digital downloads of all Blizzard's games and game time cards for World of Warcraft.

Uh, wouldnt a digital time card just be, you know, a sub? Or am I just reading that wrong?

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by WhiteLantern

One. Step. Closer?

For Diablo 3 to launch or for Wow to become a F2P game with an extensive itemshop?

I wonder if this impact Titan as well and if they plan to use real money AH in it as well?

Absolutly but wow will stay p2p with an extensive item shop and diablo 3 had to get the most important thing up and running before anything else....

The real money AH.

And the INternet Shall Tremble

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by WhiteLantern

One. Step. Closer?

For Diablo 3 to launch or for Wow to become a F2P game with an extensive itemshop?

I wonder if this impact Titan as well and if they plan to use real money AH in it as well?

 

Loke my experience says that this is going to become the new Blizzard's bussiness model and then everyone will try to follow it misserably.

I dont know if it will work but i know that Blizzard does not know how to fail and if they see a simple sign of fail they shut it donw immediatly.

I remember when bnet first started, it was pretty exciting.  This is not

Originally posted by reignjuste

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by WhiteLantern

One. Step. Closer?

For Diablo 3 to launch or for Wow to become a F2P game with an extensive itemshop?

I wonder if this impact Titan as well and if they plan to use real money AH in it as well?

 

Loke my experience says that this is going to become the new Blizzard's bussiness model and then everyone will try to follow it misserably.

I dont know if it will work but i know that Blizzard does not know how to fail and if they see a simple sign of fail they shut it donw immediatly.

 

Well if this is going to be the new norm in the future, I am out of MMO's for good!

In my eyes it's then no longer a game, but a legalized RMT business I do not want to take part of. As the games will be filled with farmers galore. Thanks, but no thanks!

Originally posted by warmaster670

Originally posted by SBFord

Blizzard has announced that the Battle.Net Balance is now live. With the new service, players can purchase digital products through the upcoming Diablo 3 auction house as well as purchase digital downloads of all Blizzard's games and game time cards for World of Warcraft.

 

Uh, wouldnt a digital time card just be, you know, a sub? Or am I just reading that wrong?

 

nah, i was thinking the same m8 :)

step one force  my sisters 2 midgets to each play a copy of diablo to max lvl  step two sell account for couple hundred  bucks step three get paid for taking care of the midgets step four rinse and repeat

reminder to self remeber to buy candy as a reward for lvling fast and getting good items