Battle.net is Blizzard’s digital gaming platform. From it we can buy, in digital format, all the games of this developer. It is the cradle of titles such as Warcraft, Diablo, WoW, Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch, among others. In addition, this is the platform that we must use to download the Call of Duty to be able to play them on our computer. If we are already familiar with this type of digital stores, surely we will not have problems downloading games from here. But it never hurts to explain how it works in order to discover all its secrets.
Blizzard was one of the companies that has opted the most for the digital format. For years, your games have to be activated and downloaded from your own store. In addition, today, if we buy a game from this company, we will find that it does not bring its CD, but we simply obtain a key that we must activate manually on this platform. After doing so, we will have access to the game, we can download it and start playing.
If you are one of the users who like to have all the PC data organized, then we are going to explain all the customization options that we can find in Blizzard and Activision games. Of course, the first thing we must do is have your client installed, we can download it for free from here .
Choose where to install the games
By default, Battle.net will download and install all games within the directory where we have the client installed. In this way, all the Battle.net games will be installed within the program’s own folder. However, we can customize this route in several ways.
Customize installation
To enter the Settings menu of this client, what we must do is click on the Blizzard logo, in the upper left part of the window, and open the “Settings” section.
Here we will find all the options that the program offers us. The section that interests us is ” Install / Update games “. Here we will find all the options related to downloading and updating Battle.net games.
The first thing we can choose is whether we want to create shortcuts to all the games during their installation, and whether we want this access to appear to all PC users. Next, we can choose the default installation directory. This is the one that we can change in case we want the games to be installed in a different folder (for example, if we have a secondary SSD for the games).
In addition, under this section, we can see the routes of all the games that we have installed. From here we can move the installation path of a specific game to another directory easily and without having to use other programs.
If we have games already installed and copied, but Battle.net has not recognized them, we can use the “Search” button to automatically search for them (for example, if we have brought a game on a USB). We can also configure the client to always do this in the background.
Configure updates
We will also be able to configure the behavior of the updates. We can choose if we want updates to be paused when starting a game (something very important, considering that Battle.net games are usually online), as well as if we want to receive notifications every time a game starts updating automatically.
We will also be able to choose if we want the updates to be automatic, and the network bandwidth we want to use. We can set a limit for both updates and minor patches. The measure of this bandwidth is KB / s, that is, 100 KB / s would equal 1 Mbps of Internet speed.
How to Download Games from Battle.net
We assume that the game we want to download is either free, or we have it purchased and activated in our Battle.net account. On the left side of the program we will be able to see all the games that we can find on this platform, both those that we have purchased and those that we have not. We will select the one we want to install, and in the central part we will see a large button called “Install”. This button will be the one that allows us to download and install the game to our PC.
By clicking on it we can see a simple wizard that will guide us during the installation. For example, we can choose the path where we want to install it, if we want to activate automatic updates for that game and if we want to create a shortcut on the desktop.
We can also see at the bottom the space necessary to install the game on our PC. If everything is correct, we click on ” Start installation “, and it will begin.
We can see the download and installation progress of the game in the lower right part of the window, as well as the speed. Some games have an option that allows us to start playing before the download is finished, for example, to story mode. This will appear marked with colored arrows that will indicate when we can start the game, when to play and when the download and installation of it ends.
When the installation is complete, the button will have changed to “Play”. And, by clicking on it, the game will start.
Uninstall a game from Battle.net
If we get tired of a specific game, and want to delete it to free up space, we can do this in several different ways. For example, we can always resort to the Uninstall Windows 10 programs section to be able to delete the game from our computer as if it were just another application.
In addition, from the Battle.net client itself, we will find the possibility of uninstalling any of the games that we have installed on the computer. To do this, what we must do is go to the tab of the game in question, the one we want to uninstall, and open its options menu. Here we will find the option that will allow us to uninstall the game .
We select this option and we will see a new window that will allow us to confirm that we want to delete the game from our PC.
After a few seconds, the game will have been uninstalled from our PC. And we will not have to worry about saved games because they are always synchronized with the Blizzard cloud, associated with our user. If we lower the game again later we can pick it up where we left off.