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Battle.net 2.0 Rumors

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Diii.net has received a hot rumor about the major changes coming to Battle.net as Blizzard upgrades their game hosting service to support the upcoming Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 titles. An excerpt:

"When D3 comes out, Blizzard will be making major changes to battle.net. All players will have a universal battle.net account for all games. They will start selling a $6 key chain with a digital face that updates every 10 minutes or so with a new 11-digit number. That 11-digit number will be your password. This will make it nearly impossible to keylog or bruteforce accounts."
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Published: 519 days 6 hours ago | Rumors | PC | Dev News | Tech
 
 

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Xulfxulf - 519 days 6 hours ago
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1 - Blizzard Austin
It's long been confirmed that Blizzard has a huge customer service and support center in Austin, and they repeatedly mentioned the big upgrades and security fixes coming to battle.net with SC2 and D3, plus the recently implemented the code scrambling device for WoW accounts. So this is a pretty believable rumor, as far as rumors go.
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Leord - 519 days 6 hours ago
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Yeah, at this point, most of Battle.net 2.0 is still speculation, except for the little things they might have said by mistake.

Thinking that they are aiming to have the best gaming network in the world when it launches is probably not unlikely though. (whether they succeed is another question, but chances are that they will)
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thehitman - 519 days 5 hours ago
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key thing sounds stupid for a game. I dont want my password changing every 10minutes.... thats really annoying and if you lose ur key-thing then ur basically screwed beacuse not only can you not recover your password but you have to go buy a new 1 and prob do some extra things just to log in. That would really suck.
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Leord - 519 days 5 hours ago
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That probably won't be mandatory. The WoW keyring was sold out within a day on the Blizzard Store page. I think a lot of people will use it.
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ry-guy - 519 days 5 hours ago
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I'd buy the keyring.

I think that would be a neat feature that could go a long way. A new way of battling computer piracy.
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Sprud - 519 days 4 hours ago
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I've bought the WoW keyring since I prefer to be 100% safe rather than 99%.
It only takes 5 secs extra to login.
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Skerj - 519 days 5 hours ago
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Wow, implementing key fobs in a game is a sign of some serious sh*t. Entropia Universe has one and that's because people buy ingame islands for $29k and stuff.
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Odion - 519 days 5 hours ago
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I am telling you right now that it will be a cold day in hell when I pay for Battle.Net
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rossifranklin - 518 days 22 hours ago
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Why would they charge to play D3, I've never seen any statement by Blizzard that would suggest this. Battle.net is likely to remain free as it's always been (WoW is not part of Battle.net .) If D3 has the same security and what not as WoW, doesn't mean it will cost.
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Sprud - 519 days 3 hours ago
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This is the same system online banks use all over the world. 6$ is nothing compared to what the game cost + monthly fee.
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Tyrael - 519 days 3 hours ago
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Keyrings and cars with password refreshers were usually only for employees of large corporations. Pretty serious stuff this rumor is contemplating...
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Sprud - 519 days 3 hours ago
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WoW has already implemented this, so no doubt they will implement it for future games. And you will only need one keyring for all Blizzard games, just as you can now use the same keyring for multiple WoW accounts.
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thetamer - 519 days 3 hours ago
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8 - Not just games
If National ID cards can be hacked into, then I don't know how game publishers can state that they are 100% safe. Even internet banking has it's problems, so if this works and goes ahead, then maybe government and banks could learn a thing or three...
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