Battle.net Accounts Required for World of Warcraft Players

Blizzard has announced some changes to the World of Warcraft game that a number of players won’t be best pleased with. They have announced that as of November 11th, all World of Warcraft players will be required to sign up and access World of Warcraft via the Battle.net service.

I first encountered the Battle.net accounts several months ago when I was installing Warcraft 3 for the first time. I found the service to be really useful as you can buy old games, as well as being able to download the latest patches for all of the games, all in one central location with just one password.

Blizzard have been planning to roll out the requirement of having a Battle.net account for a while. One reason why they are doing this is  because it joins all your games together on that one account and allows you to re-download them at any location, all you have to do is login to your account, pretty awesome feature if you ask me.

To ensure that all of the 11 million WoW players sign up for a Battle.net account, after November 11th, if you don’t login through the Battle.net account, you won’t be able to get your fix of the highly popular game.

Blizzard are offering compensation for having to signup for the account. If you are a current WoW player and need to sign up for the account, you will receive a free in-game penguin pet, hardly something you’d want but it’s better than nothing, although many players would just prefer some in-game money considering almost 11 million players will be getting the pet. As for new players, after November 11th, to sign up for your WoW account, you’ll have to do it via the Battle.net service.