If you’ve got a full friends list on Battle.net, you’ve been given a bit of free space. On June 20, President of Blizzard Entertainment Mike Ybarra confirmed the friend cap on the company’s gaming service has doubled, from 200 to 400 possible friends.
This allows players across all Blizzard games, including Call of Duty, Overwatch 2, and this month’s mega-hit Diablo 4, to add more friends before hitting the maximum amount allowed by servers.
Ybarra praised the change, stating he had a friend test the new cap, saw it was working, and incorporated it afterwards.
The players’ demand for an increased friend cap has been constant, with the last update increasing it from 100 to 200 back in June 2015. It led to an overall positive reaction from fans, with plenty of lobby organizers and popular players getting their wishes. Now, eight years later, fans have another increase.
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Increasing the friend cap solves one of the biggest issues with Battle.net: its limited friend list. Especially with the additions of popular games like CoD and Diablo 4, players who play multiple games under the same account usually have different friends for each. This leaves players with the tough decision of which to remove to fit in new ones.
Lots of replies to both the 2015 tweet and the new 2023 message shared that same sentiment.
Fans will now be hoping it won’t take another eight years to increase this cap again. In the end, whether you’re grinding your way through demons in Diablo or making plays in Hearthstone and Overwatch 2, just know with this friend increase, there’s always room for another buddy.
