Major Battle.net Updates, Signs of RMAH Progress!
Posted 6 February 2012 by Azzure

This morning, the Battle.net website went in to a reasonably lengthy maintenance, (outside of the usual weekly maintenance), and at the time of writing this article the Account management pages are still down. Two RMAH related pages were updated also: The Battle.net Balance FAQ, and the Adding Funds to Battle.net Article.

Signs of Progress? I definitely think so. The Battle.net Account management site wouldn’t need to be taken down for a lengthy maintenance if not for some back-end work and implementations. I think if any such work is being done on the back-end, it is very reasonable to assume it is related to Diablo 3 and the RMAH (including Battle.net Balances, Paypal integration etc.)

Many people know that my stance on the whole release date saga is that Battle.net / RMAH related implementations are the main driver behind the delays. Blizzard can’t announce a release date, or even estimate a completion date for Battle.net related work because a lot of it is out of their hands, and IT implementations / systems in general are hard to predict timeframes on. As an example, last year I worked on probably around 5 IT related implementations, and nearly all of them were delayed, and all the estimates were off. It’s the nature of IT work.

*UPDATE 1: The battle.net Account Management page has been updated! Looks like they did in fact implement a bunch of Currency related upgrades. The Battle.net Balance is fully implemented and you can now top up your account. Also, it appears that the EU site has not yet been upgraded with this new functionality.

*UPDATE 2: Tested it and the transaction works!

See below the fold for screenshots of the new currencies and balance options!

Maximum AUD balance is $250 AUD.

List of Currencies in NA Region