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==Current Status==
Already, Battle.net is quite popular, but Diablo II players are on average 1.2 players per game, meaning the overwhelming majority of games are really net-based [[Single Player]] experiences. Blizzard is putting focus on making sure people will have a good time alone, and an even better time in groups.
==Diablo 3 on Battle.net==
Thus far the Diablo 3 team has given no specifics about how Diablo 3 will interface with Battle.net. They've mentioned numerous planned improvements, such as to [[trading]] and finding other players interested in the same sort of game experience as you, but with the game still so far off, and Battle.net undergoing extensive remodeling pre-Starcraft 2, no details have been offered.
Jay Wilson replied (sort of) to a question about this at Blizzcon 2009: [http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/1017305p3.html]
::'''''IGN: '''Considering that this is the big debut for the redesigned Battle.net, have you figured out anything you're planning on doing, with the exception of things like, obviously, easier ways of setting up co-op lobbies or creating panels so that everybody can immediately jump in and start up exactly where they left off?
::''Jay Wilson:''' Well, for us, Battle.net is... we're not quite at that stage. The full extent of our Battle.net development is that we do run through Battle.net. Pretty much everything that we reveal about Battle.net is going to be introduced in Diablo 3. I won't go through all of this because I don't want to take all your time, but the social networking aspects, the easy communication across games, and definitely... some of our big hooks are really good matchmaking, there was some poor matchmaking in Diablo 2, it was kind of esoteric and hard to use. We want a platform that puts you right next to someone else who's into the same thing as you, at the same level. We want you to be able to open up that friends list and say, oh, my friend Steve's killing Diablo, join! And you're right there next to them. We want players to be able to play together very, very easily. That's going to be a lot of work.
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