For example, for World of Warcraft, personal users have to pay subscription fee to Blizzard to connect to the battle net.
It competes against rival platforms including Valve's Steam, EA's Origin and Activision Blizzard's Battle.net.
Blizzard developers celebrated the new game early at the Battle.net World Championship in Shanghai.
Last year, Blizzard held its Battle.net World Championship (BWC) in Shanghai, China to crown a world champion.
FORBES: Blizzard Establishes First Ever Global StarCraft II ESports Ranking System
Then players can duel it out online at Battle.net to amass more cards for their virtual collection.
FORBES: Blizzard Entertainment Embraces Free To Play Gaming With Hearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft
Hearthstone includes a Play Mode that offers head-to-head battles for friends on Battle.net to engage in battles.
FORBES: Blizzard Entertainment Embraces Free To Play Gaming With Hearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft
These transactions come right out of your Battle.net account balance, which can be funded by credit card, or PayPal.
FORBES: Will Diablo III's "Real Money Auction House" Put An End To Gold Farmers?
When Diablo 2 was launched, Battle.net was down for the first night and up sporadically the next couple of days.
Opposition to the ruling will almost certainly follow in the courts, and the battle over net neutrality will intensify on Capitol Hill.
In addition to incorporation pro gaming into its annual BlizzCon Convention in Anaheim, the game giant has announced the 2012 Battle.net World Championship.
Just a little shop in Battle.net where people can exchange Farm Cash Diablo Dollars for equipment sanctioned and sold by the developer itself.
The Auction House will give players access to rare items and gold using your hard earned cash, deposited straight into your Battle.net account.
FORBES: Will Diablo III's "Real Money Auction House" Put An End To Gold Farmers?
It now plans to build on this success with a Battle.net World Championship event in Shanghai next week featuring dozens of WoW and Starcraft pro-gamers.
Blizzard promised that more details about the 2012 Battle.net World Championship and BlizzCon 2013, including specific dates and locations, will be coming in the months ahead.
Of course, if you want to forge all four rings, well, you may as well log out of the rest of your life and just plug yourself into Battle.net.
The problem for Iranians came to light late last week as hundreds of players in the country posted messages to Blizzard's European Battle.net forums complaining they could no longer access the game.
Officials said the definition of broadband access had changed over the course of the Net Neutrality battle but did not provide specifics.
FORBES: FCC Tips Net Neutrality Passage But Questions Remain
The net neutrality battle has overwhelmed the agency since Chairman Genachowski first took office, and there was no sign of a resolution that would make any of the increasingly noisy rabble-rousers on either side happy.
In Chicago, race officials battle their run of dangerously bad luck, but there is no guaranteed safety net.
应用推荐