After 20+ years i cannot stay away from it either.
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Battle.net is now just "Blizzard"
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After 20+ years i cannot stay away from it either.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Welp
The Lamonster
Member
It will always be b.net to me 
racketpunch
Member
Ugly ass icons. Why would they approve these?
Hari Seldon
Member
If they are going to sell Activision games on it why change it to "Blizzard app" lol. That will be even more confusing.
Sure.
McStickenstein
Member
Battle.net for life. I fondly remember the OG StarCraft days. To me, the social nature of chat channels somehow far eclipses what games and other social media platforms offer today, not in terms of features but rather in how tolerant everyone was.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I kinda like "blizzard app" on my task bar. And that is about as far as I have noticed the change.
CountAntonius
Member
Blizzard should have been renamed Battle.net.
Metal Khaos
Member
Could have just renamed the online service Blizzard Net so I could still simply call it B.Net.
Pegasus Actual
Member
Meh battle.net was a latecomer anyway. All the good warcraftin' happened on kali.net!
This is so true. Hi5! Hundreds of hours on Kali.
LurkerPrime
Member
You can rename your client, but you can never rename my desktop shortcut.
Your move, Blizzard.
Your move, Blizzard.
fluffydelusions
Member
That's a great icon. You can tell right away that it's the 8||'/,-|\) App.
. This icon sucks
Ricerocket
Member
The icon after the update is the most generic looking shit I've seen. B.Net had a nifty name to it, a legacy of awesome but now it's joined one of the many modern "apps" out there.
I hope we get a reason for why they even did this.
I hope we get a reason for why they even did this.
ZombieSupaStar
Member
Eh fine with it, the name felt like an old reminder of their 90s games that doesnt represent them nowadays anyway.
What blizzard game supports Linux?
Megalosaro
Banned
I don't think they focus tested this move correctly.
Seems like a mistake
Seems like a mistake
That's a great icon. You can tell right away that it's the 8||'/,-|\) App.
I've actually edited the icon to the old Battlenet symbol. And I'll keep changing it unless they can come up with one that is actually any better
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
I always found it strange that Blizz called it Battle Dot Net. I always just called it Battle Net. Am I alone?
Ricerocket
Member
I call it Battle Net as well without the dot.
Now it's Battle APP... -_- pure shit.
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
OK good. I remember watching a Blizzcon panel and they kept saying it over and over and over and I just thought it was one of the dumbest things I'd heard. It's almost like they knew people called it Battle Net, but they were trying to force the lexicon haha.
I can understand the rebranding away from Battle.net for people who are new to the platform. Sounds like a website rather than a gaming platform. Blizzard App sounds like what the working title was and they just never got to it though. At least Blizzard Online or Blizzard Portal would invoke a better sense of what it is.
keraj37
Member
Mexen
Member
I don't know of any
Rickenslacker
Banned
The taskbar icon changing from the Battle.net logo to "BLIZ" is such a downgrade. The update kept the executable and directory named Battle.net too so what's the point.
Yep. I have for nearly two decades and will continue to refer to the social platform I use for blizzard games as battle.net.
Demigod Mac
Member
With all this negative feedback I hope they'll pull a New Coke on us.
secretanchitman
Member
What a weird decision. There wasn't anything wrong with battle.net so why change it? People unanimously understand that anything Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo are all played online via battle.net. It's been this way for decades.
Playing on "Blizzard" just sounds wrong. I'll get used to it but I'll always still call it battle.net.
Playing on "Blizzard" just sounds wrong. I'll get used to it but I'll always still call it battle.net.
King Gilga
Member
The new blizzard icon for the battle.net client is so ugly, I want to unpin it from my tasbar.
Vital Tundra
Member
Its like, Valve has Steam, EA has Origin, Blizzard has.... Blizzard... App?
Complistic
Member
I'll never not call it battle.net
That's a great icon. You can tell right away that it's the 8||'/,-|\) App.
Should just be Blizz if they have to do ANYTHING like that.
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HarryDemeanor
Member
My tray icon just says BLIZ.
That's a great icon. You can tell right away that it's the 8||'/,-|\) App.
QuantumZebra
Member
end of an era
dumb move IMO
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