Blizzard Adding Facebook Login and Live Streaming

Logging into a Blizzard game and live streaming your gameplay is going to become easier than ever.

Blizzard Entertainment announced earlier on today that it is working with Facebook to implement Facebook’s Live API into its games. Later on this month players will be able to use their Facebook login to access Blizzard games, including World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm and the incredibly popular Overwatch.

This implementation will make it an easy way for to log in and will provide an opening of Blizzard games to Facebook’s more than 1 billion active users. Using Facebook Live API Blizzard are looking to add even more social features to its games.

The first thing they plan to do is a simple streaming ability. Although they haven’t announced a date, they plan for this go live players will be able to stream games with a click of a button, players will be able to stream live onto their timelines allowing friends to watch and chat with them.

As part of this implementation, Blizzard recently hosted multiple live streams over Facebook. The first was Heroes of the Dorm, Blizzard’s college tournament for its MOBA, Heroes of the Storm. The second was the live event for Overwatch.

“Blizzard has a passionate community of players, and an incredible track record for launching innovative and high-quality gaming experiences,” said Leo Olebe, global games partnerships director at Facebook. “Our collaboration on Overwatch demonstrates Facebook’s commitment to partnering with AAA game companies, while further empowering Blizzard gamers to connect and share the content they’re most passionate about with the friends they play with around the world.”

Using Social Media to promote games using its player base seems to be a very good idea. Would you watch your friends’ stream through Facebook? Comment below let me know!