Will Bnet 2.0 have chat?

[InpuBot]

Will it have a chatbox similar to the SC1 in the full release?

[Dragoonx]

Yes it will. Lobbies if thats what your referring to.

[Centipede]

I'm going to hazard guess and say that he was asking about the chat channels found in B.Net 1.0. In which case, no. There will not be any chat channels aside from lobbies and private friend conversations/parties.

Unless Blizzard has said otherwise.

[Hav0x]

Blizzard has actually said that they will have social areas for certain topics. They just haven't figured out how they will work yet.

[Noctis]

Blizzard has actually said that they will have social areas for certain topics. They just haven't figured out how they will work yet.

this is indeed correct, B.Net 2 is also going to be patched and modded as time goes on.

[InpuBot]

my bad, i mean like the chat channels/lobby area

[Gifted]

Follow-up: Ok, so second question. What are the changes that you guys plan on making to Battle.net for clans, because right now I don't see any. There's no support for clans and no clan chat rooms. A lot of people want to be able to get together in a more formal meeting place.

Chris Sigaty: So there's a couple of things. One of the biggest features that I'd like to see get in as soon as possible that won't be in there for launch is Groups. Groups is a concept of creating an entity like a map-making community so they can chat with each other and hang out. I don't have a date on that yet. It's past the tournament patch but its definitely one of the earlier features we'd like to see. Whether it happens in the patch or it happens in Expansion One, I don't know yet. There's a huge list of stuff on the Battle.net side that we really want to have happen but we don't have dates on it. Beyond that you're talking about actual constructions different than a group-like clan, I don't even have dates on that stuff, for now. I don't think that's in right now for the tournament patch.

Dustin Browder: So Groups we're viewing sort of as a social experience like if you want to get together with your friends or if you want to talk about anything. It's just sort of a group of friends or a casual group, just like Chris said. If its a mod-making group wanting to get together and discuss these things. It could be a hardcore Zerg strategy group. Whatever kind of groups you want to create. For clans, we're thinking more of a competitive construct. Something you would get together and compete with people in other clans. You would probably not have all of your friends, especially if they sucked, in your clan, but you could have anybody in your group and that would be fine. But those are all down the road.

Source: http://sclegacy.com/feature/3-events...ite-qa-session

I advise you to listen/read all of that, it's from this month and to my knowledge the full transcript is our site only.

[Centipede]

That is very good news, Gifted! I'll be sure to check it out.

Let's hope the next thing we hear of is the lifting of region lock as soon as possible.

[HistoryX]

god that sounds HORRIBLE , we seriously may have to wait till expansion ONE for any semblance of chat. Thats just pathetic.

[Hav0x]

god that sounds HORRIBLE , we seriously may have to wait till expansion ONE for any semblance of chat. Thats just pathetic.

Don't like it don't buy it. It's that simple.

Do you want to see chat at release and greatly delay the game even further or do you want the game out as soon as possible and have chat patched in later?