Patch 1.0.2

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Hi,

1. Players will now automatically join General chat when logging in

Exactly why did they do this? I don't want to be spammed with crap when I log on and play. :S It astounds me that they think that would be useful.

I think there have been a lot of people who got disconnected from battle.net a couple of minutes after logging in unless they immediately joined the general chat. This probably helped because the chat provided some kind of "keepalive" mechanism to the server? Don't know. Anyway, maybe Blizzard made this change as a quick fix to help those people.

-Kylearan

The strange thing is that this bug seems to have been fixed now. I went all night last night without a 3007 and there were long periods of chat silence in general chat. I'm going to test again to see what happens if I leave general chat, but it's good not to have to spam the chat window to stay connected.