All available games can be found on the left, and across the top, you can go to Games, Social, Shop, and News. The client is uncluttered and straightforward to use. While you can find Heroes of the Storm and Hearthstone under Shop, other's appear to be missing, possibly because the older games might be difficult to run on modern computers. The one thing that seems to be missing is some of the free classic games.
Who knows? We've been using Battle.Net for over 15 years just for World of Warcraft. Of course, the needed part might be why people downrate these apps. While it used to be a real turd, it's come a long way and is required by gamers. As a general rule, for some reason, people tend to rate all of these downloaders poorly, but we disagree. TroubleshootingĬheck the Technical Support forums to see if your issue is mentioned there, or contact us.Blizzard Battle.Net is the game downloader for Blizzard games, including World of Warcraft, Diablo®III, StarCraft II, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, Destiny 2, and other Classic Games.īattle.Net used to have individual downloaders but replaced that with their client. You can also disable auto-patching in the app’s Options menu. The app will only patch one game at a time, and you can manually pause or continue patching in the app. Installation and PatchingĪs long as the app is running, it will download and install available patches in the background. Note: You can only log in to the app on one computer at a time. During those 30 days, you’ll log in automatically if you exit and restart the app.
If you have Keep me logged in enabled (in Settings > General), the app will keep you logged in for up to 30 days. You log in to the app using your account information, which also logs you in to all of your games. The app will also act as your gateway to future games. The desktop app replaces our previous game launchers. You can also access the Shop, as well as News on all of our games from the app. The desktop app installs, patches, and launches all games from one application.