Blizzard delivers killing blow in new Battle.net

I've always had a ton of respect for Blizzard. They are one of the few companies that really care about their gamers. They took it up a notch today when they unveiled a new Battle.net.

What's new? Single account login for all of your Blizzard games. Just register your World of Warcraft accounts, dig out those old StarCraft and Diablo 2 cd keys, and when you finish, toss all those crummy old world compact disks away.

After registering, you will be able to download the clients for BOTH PC and MAC operating systems whenever you please. This news is particular exciting for recent Macbook converts like me. It allows me to play my favorite Blizzard games without having to purchase the Mac versions again.

This framework raises some interesting questions about the future. Now that Blizzard is merged with Activision, will we be seeing Activiation PC games pop into battle.net?

The Kotaku article posted above has comments saying that achievements will be available in games, so the single login makes sense there (like Xbox Live).

Curious as to what this means in terms of DLC and microtransactions. There has already been talks that StarCraft 2 is going to be a trilogy of games. Does this now mean that SC2 will be one boxed game with multiple DLC packs for the different races single player campaigns?

Does this mean Diablo 3 will have DLC for new acts or even customized skins?

I'm not going to speculate any more than this. I'm very comfortable in just sitting back and being surprised by Blizzard's next move.

We're in good hands.