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Coming Soon: Battle.net Balance

by Blizzard Entertainment Dec 9, 2011 8:26 AM PST
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Coming Soon: Battle.net Balance

Soon, we’ll be introducing a new feature called Battle.net Balance that will give players an alternate way to purchase Blizzard products and services directly through their Battle.net account. Players will be able to “charge up” their Battle.net Balance using a variety of payment methods, and then use their Battle.net Balance to buy services like World of Warcraft character transfers, digital products like pets and mounts, and more. Players will also be able to use their Battle.net Account Balance to buy items and store their earnings from Diablo III’s currency-based auction house once the game is released.

We’ll be rolling out the new Battle.net Balance feature in the weeks ahead -- but in the meantime, check out our Battle.net Balance FAQ to find out more about how it’s going to work.

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ßeatrix
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ßeatrix
17 hours, 15 minutes ago
Uhh? Is blizzard turning into a digital country or something? lol...feel like I'm gonna have to get citizenship just to play or something...but maybe it will work out Live instead of how it sounds in text
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Deadlie #975
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12/18/2011
Don't create a market... How can that be a balance when somebody has the choice of buying items? Who is the richest... literally.
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Instance #245
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12/19/2011
@Deadlie: Yep, tis going to be retarded.
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Horucrux
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Horucrux
4/23/2012
@Deadlie: It won't matter because Blizzard said that you won't be able to buy items with real money in Hardcore and that PVP isn't going to be competitive. Cry me a river and find a better excuse.
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Calâsiøn
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Calâsiøn
12/14/2011
lol, blizzard still thinks they can balance things.
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Rakky
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Rakky
3 days, 14 hours ago
@Calâsiøn: lololoolololololol
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RocKnEviL #892
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RocKnEviL
12/12/2011
Good work & keeep doing it THX!!!!!!
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adjicio #463
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adjicio
12/12/2011
NO. BAD.
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Vendette
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Vendette
12/11/2011
it sounds like an item mall prelude blizz pls dont make this like perfect world
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Purplepanda
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12/11/2011
Hey how about letting us buy "game time" and other Blizzard products (vanity pets, t-shirts, etc..) with game gold? Now there's a thought....
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12/14/2011
@Purplepanda: it should all be one currency and be worth while ie: i have a lot of gold in wow, trade it in for a copy of D3 or money to use on RMAH in D3 and vice versa, and i should be able to add money to this account via paypal, and in store cards instead of the prepaid wow time cards, and heres a bonus like purplepanda said take advice from EVE online money made off of the AH real or gold money should be able to go towards wow game time, otherwise ill never reactivate my wow account ever again, since there would be nothing to work towards
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Physician
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12/11/2011
so its different ways to "build up money" or something? so i can buy stuff from blizzard and pay for more play time... also once you get the RMAH synced to it, then i can use my real money from d3 to buy stuff from blizzard... lol.
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Reylon
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Reylon
12/11/2011
And here I clicked on the link thinking it was about class balance.

I guess if the RMAH works like this, then maybe my D3 time can help me save money on buying WOW time at least.
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ArtooDetoo #913
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12/10/2011
So many stores: Steam, Origin, D2D, Blizz and so on. I hope Microsoft do something about this and bring one game store for windows 8. I am tired of making billion accounts for every game I buy from different company. Make things unified, it's more convenient.
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xXOBLIVIONXx #932
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12/10/2011
Unfortunately thats called a monopoly and they aren't good...trust me@ArtooDetoo:
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Rekha
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Rekha
12/12/2011
@ArtooDetoo: I hope you don't want Microsoft to unify it.
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Elusional
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Elusional
12/10/2011
One Step Closer.
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xXOBLIVIONXx #932
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12/10/2011
I think about my momney and my time lately and if I fork over $60 to play a game...thats enough money out of my pocket for something thats a virtual product. I can't see how people spends hundreds of dollars and hours wasting thier lives away when you could be saving for something that you could buy like a Barrett sniper rifle or a nice Raptor Ford pickup...so I'm saying buying a cute little vitual pet to bring out in game for $10 isn't only stupid...its an embarrassment.
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Rekha
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Rekha
12/12/2011
@xXOBLIVIONXx: I'm liking the sniper rifle and pickup truck option. I might just save up for both! :D
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Ironax
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12/13/2011
@xXOBLIVIONXx: Dude you can choose to put money on or not...also they will have a certain amount of free auctions each week so in logic you don't even have to pay for any of the money you make in the game lol
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WickerMan #209
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@xXOBLIVIONXx: Do you buy affliction shirts too breh?
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Zeraphil #342
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12/10/2011
So you can't really make money off D3 items then. It's just a way to siphon more money in, and make a little macroeconomy,

At least this appeases my worries of farmers breaking the game too much, since they can't make any direct money off of items.
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Omnicyde #593
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12/10/2011
@Zeraphil: When you sell an item on the Diablo III Auction house you will have the option to deposit the money into your Battle.net Balance OR transfer the money through a real money source such as PayPal, for a small fee. If you choose to deposit the money into your Battle.net Balance, you will NEVER be able to transfer that transaction into real money.
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Luper
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Luper
12/9/2011
neat
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Peetza
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Peetza
12/9/2011
@"see WoW was the reason for diablo 3 to be held back. they want you to make money from your d3 items and be like, oh i cant use this 15$ so ill just play WoW also! ^_^"

Nasty Blizzard! ^^
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Cuddlezz #162
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12/16/2011
@Peetza: Diablo 3 has been releaseable for months, the "final stages" all have to do with the rmah.
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Horucrux
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4/23/2012
@Peetza: *facepalm*
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Dexterity #237
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12/9/2011
see WoW was the reason for diablo 3 to be held back. they want you to make money from your d3 items and be like, oh i cant use this 15$ so ill just play WoW also! ^_^
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Picklejar
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Picklejar
12/9/2011
d3 says it gose on line jan 1st its been 5 years hope its no a lie
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ProxyRax #809
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ProxyRax
12/9/2011
STUPIDD
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Wogrim #807
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12/9/2011
Hmmm only being able to cash out on individual item sales is really dumb... but on the positive side, maybe it will cause the RMAH to be a horrendous failure and Blizz will scrap it.
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Cuddlezz #162
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12/16/2011
@Wogrim: if everyone knew about d2jsp they would realize the rmah is going to be a huge deal >.>
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opCWAL #180
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opCWAL
12/9/2011
beta is out and alive and I enjoyed it =)
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KhaiserSoze #707
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KhaiserSoze
12/9/2011
So in essence we have here...

...A Sign OF BETA!
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JackBauer #511
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JackBauer
12/9/2011
sign of beta
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Ironax
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Ironax
12/9/2011
@JackBauer: Beta is already out lol
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Hamirez #138
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Hamirez
12/9/2011
Nice. Does it mean that we are almost done with Diablo 3?
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Rekha
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Rekha
12/12/2011
@Hamirez: Buddy, it has just begun. :)
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Kakey #716
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Kakey
12/9/2011
You should be able to cash out your balance any time.... the idea of having money locked into battle.net is not cool at all blizzard...
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Apprentice #361
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Apprentice
12/13/2011
@Kakey: I agree. I guess I'll just have to buy something in the RMAH and immediately sell it using the PayPal option. Why they can't do this directly using the PayPal + fee option, I don't know.
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