since star craft brood wars was a current title I have typed in manually battle.net to get to blizzard’s hub of game home pages. back during brood war i used the url to navigate my clan’s home page.
suddenly it has stopped directing to the blizzard homepage of game catalogue and instead redirects to the shop. with as far as i can tell no way to get to the games home pages from the shop.
why was this change made? as a longtime blizzard fan this is kind of upsetting.
Bobby Kotick.
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As much as I would like to attribute that to him, it was probably due to some mid tier zombie manager telling a stooge to get something done that’s cheaper.
Yeah I getcha. I usually second guess myself anymore and use the launcher to bring me here so I don’t accidentally go to a virus site and get hacked again. I have the fob so I’m not TOO worried. But nothing is infallible.
Possibly something to do with updates for the validation system??
Validation, authentication, my brain mixes words up. So yes, authentication.
Yup
Noticed this the opther day. taking me directly to the store instead of the hub
its a mostly small and irrelevant change, but one that just adds to the pile on of Blizzard moving further towards the Revenue min/maxing pushes that irk us. Especially given the state of the game and development.
The validation system is as follows:
You is kind.
You is smart.
You is important.
It’s right here
Battle.net is a service now, it makes sense it redirects you to Blizzard.com, because the company is named… Blizzard
Just like how Discord website and the Discord App are two completely different things
It’s not called Battle.net Entertainment, it’s Blizzard Entertainment
This is very little reason to rant over
All the replies that think it’s greed or whatnot need to open their eyes
you didn’t read
going to battle.net doesn’t redirect you to blizzard.com
it redirects you to store. battle.net instead of the default battle.net community page that we got for the last… 15 or so years.
your attempt to belittle someones opinion on this is based on you failing to read
Battle.net is a service, battle.net is what you use to play Blizzard and Activision title games now.
Battle.net also shows what you can buy or resubscribe.
Blizzard.com is another different thing to show what games they provide.
There is nothing wrong what Blizzard did, all they reassure is battle.net now redirects you to what you can buy/log in to your account
You trying to think they want players to “buy buy buy!!” Over something this little meaning is very questionable
And you are failing to understand why some users are not happy with the change.
Instead of going directly to the community, which they’ve done for over a decade. it’s taking them directly to the store. Adding extra steps required just to get to the community portal.
if you can’t understand why that might irk people, than I don’t think you really have a valid point to stand on and you’re just tpying to see words with your name on it.
Are you forced to buy something to get to the community portal?
Battle.net has always been the “store website” for Blizzard quite some time now
There is a reason why the forums is called us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow and no longer the way it used to be called, like battle net/wow/forums or something
All the changes are is legal issues that mean nothing to us, but getting riled up over a simple domain change is one of the last things to rant about
No it quite literally was not
up until 2 weeks ago. If I typed battle.net into my address bar, I went directly to the community main page.
2 weeks ago, it redirects first to the store.
this is an absolute recent change.
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Battle.net has always been the Blizzard store website, they literally just reassure the domains to go to the correct places now
This is one of many captures that show that “Battle.net” is the Blizzards digital store service
Sorry but Battle.net is now a service for Blizzard and Activision services, otherwise this company would be called Battle.net Entertainment
Everything is still there but it’s now called Blizzard.com… because this company is called Blizzard Entertainment
All they literally did is gave Blizzard.com domain the “directory” as it makes sense
While battle.net is now the service they use for buying games, playing games, etc etc
Once again out of all things to rant about, this is one that should be on the last thing to bring up
You’re 100% factually incorrect and I’m done responding to your misinformation
Battle. net was the name of the social service and interconnectivity for online gaming. it was always the community side of blizzard. the store used to be on the blizzard page.
Battle. net was how we got the “Battle. net realID”. It was how we used to communicate outside fo the game. it as I said, was the service that provided the connection / communication for the online gaming.
the move to make battle. net the full store and redirect www. battle .net to store. battle.net is an absolute recent chnage in blizzards history.
repeating otherwise is wrong and doubling down on being wrong just evidences that you’re trolling or purely ignorant of what youre talking about. you’re basically looking at their last years behaviour and claiming that to be the truth for the last 15 years.
have a nice day
All I pointed out is they are separating what battle.net and blizzard.com means now. All they did was make sure what website you type goes where.
Again this is one of the last things to complain about as it really doesn’t mean much other than hurting nostalgic feelings
I used to be able to type garden ridge website
to shop things but now it’s called at home, I didn’t get into a bad day because of it
its a minor annoyance, but your outright rejection of listening to others opinions is just exactly why people are getting irked
this is a MINOR difference
but it’s a minor business focused decision in a long line of business focus decisions over the last few years
people are getting tired of it. even if it’s a tiny little change like changing battle.net from the social point to the storefront.