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Earlier this year, Blizzard announced that they would be retiring the Battle.net brand. The company claimed that "there’s been occasional confusion and inefficiencies related to having two separate identities under which everything falls—Blizzard and Battle.net." The renamed launcher was titled Blizzard App. The move was met with indifference by new players and derision by old fans. In the end, the [...]
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As Destiny 2 PC announced its upcoming launch on Battle.net, news travels fast and takes an unexpected turn on the World of Warcraft gold market — the real-world value of the WoW in-game currency has taken a sharp downward turn in light of Destiny 2's latest announcement. Blizzard has only recently allowed players the ability to convert WoW Tokens into [...]
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Blizzard is welcoming another game to the Battle.net family, and the game is none other than this year's highly anticipated first-person shooter Destiny 2. Developed by Bungie but published by Blizzard's sister company Activision, Destiny 2 marks itself as the first non-Blizzard game to release on the Battle.net platform. A recent Blizzard news post details the decision to launch Destiny [...]
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Last September, Blizzard Entertainment announced that it would be retiring the Battle.net moniker and replacing it with generic "Blizzard" branding for all of its products. At the time, the company stated that its reason for doing so was that "there’s been occasional confusion and inefficiencies related to having two separate identities under which everything falls—Blizzard and Battle.net." It's a pretty [...]
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Do you regret naming yourself "xX_Reaper432_Xx" the moment Overwatch came out? Maybe you've decided that you like playing as McCree more or perhaps you've just run into one too many other Reapers and it's hard to tell when someone's talking to you. In the past, you would have been stuck with that name for all eternity, wondering why you ever [...]
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