[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]The ONLY impression I ever had of BattleNet was a ridiculously slow online environment. I remember watching a friend play Diablo II on BattleNet. He had a sorceress, and would zone-in to a level and just run around clicking, even though nothing was happening on screen. When I asked him why he was doing that, he said it was because he knew there were monsters attacking him, but the server was so slow, he couldn't wait for the game to load them, otherwise he would die. Sure enough, a couple seconds later the game finally caught up, and there were tons of corpses and loot surrounding his character.Long story short, I've never gotten over that first impression of BattleNet, no matter how much better it might be today. The fact that they want to tie all their games to this new service just doesn't sit well with me. I like Blizzard's game, but I just never cared for BattleNet.Oh, and whats the point of an article speculating about Blizzard opening up BattleNet as a Steam-like service? The author clearly states Blizzard has no intention of doing so.[/citation]
So you based your impressions on battle.net on what you this guy told you was happening? Diablo II was a P2P game, the content was not run on a server, so your friend, and your impressions, are wrong.