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==Why is Battle.net going to be in realms?==
::"Battle.net will not be in shards... Diablo 2 will be. This is being done to give everyone a fast, local server on which to play D2. This is important, since D2 is much more "network intensive"… ... in other words, it likes a fast connection." --Blizzard Entertainment
::"People have to realize something about Diablo II. You really can't compare it to other games due to the amount of people who will be playing. We anticipate at least 50,000 users at any given time. That is far more than are playing any other game simultaneously except maybe for StarCraft, which isn't client-server. The technical requirements for handling that kind of number are staggering. The shard system is therefore necessary to distribute the load and make the task at least somewhat manageable. The Diablo II multiplayer architecture is doing things no other game has ever done." - Max Schaefer, Blizzard Vice President
