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One of the most important and significant components of Diablo that contributed to its blockbuster status among gamers is BATTLE.NET.  Through Battle.Net, players can talk to each other, arrange for games, or find suitable co-players.  This FREE matchmaking service has given Diablo the ultimate replayability and verisimilitude that other games strive for.

With the presence of a host of channels where players can talk and arrange a game, or just chat with fellow players about everything under the sky, Battle.Net became a community.  No other game or online gaming service has had more impact on players than Blizzard's famed server -- and the fact that it is FREE helped goose the ratings.

But, while Battle.Net has been Diablo's biggest draw, it has also been its biggest flaw.  During Diablo's heyday, the fact that the players' characters are not stored on the Battle.Net servers but instead in the Windows registry, has led to numerous experimentation by hackers and cheaters.  Cheats and trainers began to sprout like black mushrooms (pardon the pun), and capabilities like God-mode, Auto-kill, Duping, Townkill, and a host of others ravaged the cheater-infested environment of Battle.Net.  People like Enigma and Raymond Tan became well-known for their trainers (even some idiots like BoBaFeTT continue to be popular today), and some players even resorted to tinkering with the Diablo CD through hex-editing -- just to alter their characters and come out ahead.  Whether you decide that cheating is right or wrong, it is worthy to note that it ended the excitement stage of Battle.Net.  Players became wary of notorious Player Killers (PKs), Town Killers (TKs), and even Ghost players (players you cannot see in the game, but can kill you or steal from you).

New patches have come along promising to fix bugs and remedy cheats, but, although cheating has not been as rampant as before, the problem has proven to be too late to solve. Players now enjoy the luxury of unique IDs courtesy of the 1.05 patch onwards, but the multiplayer character files remain on the hard disk -- still hackable by the determined individuals who still scour Battle.net for the weak-willed and low-skilled.

But still, after almost two years, Battle.Net remains as one of the top online gaming services in the Internet.  Even with the emergence of Origin's Ultima Online, Battle.Net is still going strong, especially with the arrival of StarCraft and the impending approach of its expansion, Brood War. Whether you are a veteran Battle.Net campaigner, or just a newbie trying to learn the ropes, these Battle.Net sections will help you know more about your otherwise precarious situation on Battle.Net.

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