Blizzard Entertainment Social Site
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Written by Cherry
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Friday, 25 September 2009 |
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Blizzard Entertainment will be massively overhauling Battle.net, according to their announcement during the annual BlizzCon event. Battle.net is the booming multiplayer online game service from Blizzard. The 12 yr. old founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg first launched the game in 1997. The goal of the game is to connect the gamers in an online multiplayer gaming practice. Blizzard had followed World of Warcraft which was known as the massively successful MMORPG. The game makers now decided to restore Battle.net for the age of social networking. Rob Pardo, Blizzard executive VP of game design proved how to play the game for the first time even you're already connected to the online society.The profiles of the game will track a user's success, match history, and the facility to trade around maps. Locating their friends by their names is just simple. Users will be capable to publish Toasts or broadcasts, the status updates of the game. StarCraft II will be available in the marketplace. Pardo describes it as an animated ecosystem of user-generated content, which includes multiplayer maps, single-player scenarios, challenges, themes, and other new services that can be linked to other social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. In Battle.net forums, gamers responses showed excitement ("This is awesome, it's really going to change how we play Blizzard games."), anger ("It's official. [StarCraft II] has been delayed until 2010 so that users can post their stats to their Facebook profile"), and humorous ("I miss the days when I played games to get away from people"). [via] |
