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- steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
- games@sh.itjust.works
I guess they’re giving up on convincing people to download their launcher.
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Not gonna play them if they include their launcher after game is started from Steam lol.
EDIT: I am very happy to hear that everyone hates them. EA as well as Rockstar has shown that their launchers are shit. On Steam Deck EA games often fail to start at all due to EA launcher updates, and Rockstar launcher takes around 3-5 minutes to start a fucking game (which should start instantly).
I don’t understand what the point of a blizzard launcher is - steam is already a launcher.
Ads. Ads and data harvesting.
This should be unacceptable. Launchers are bloatware.
On Steam Deck EA games often fail to start at all due to EA launcher updates, and Rockstar launcher takes around 3-5 minutes to start a fucking game (which should start instantly).
I mean, this sounds suspiciously like something a company that makes the device that also owns and runs the biggest digital game store might do intentionally.
Except its not. Valve has gone out of their way to make sure other peoples’ games and launchers work, even if they’re not selling directly through Steam. Look at the Proton patch notes if you’re not just being a conspiratorial asshole and actually care about the facts.
Never touched my Blizzard Account again after the sexual harassment and paygap scandal.
I’ve put 15 years of lifetime into my druid… It still hurts a little because I’ve loved WoW for a long time.
So Blizz switching to Steam couldn’t interest me any less.
Same after they kowtowed to China about Hong Kong and Taiwan.
This is really good and really bad news.
On the plusside, it really seems like running Battle.net is not a requirement, and it just logs in the bnet account once ingame. Two thumbs up. More availability and people being able to use Steam as a somewhat sensible launcher instead of the frankly annoying Battle.net, even better.
On the downside, I guess this also confirms beyond the investors call that OW2 is bleeding players quickly - and for good reason, since they’ve shown they cannot handle the fundamental design changes from the switch to 5v5 at all.
I really wish Steam would put their foot down and stop these launchers. They are nothing but a nuisance and add no value for the customer.
EDIT: Just to be clear, when EA Play joined Gamepass there wasn’t a separate launcher when you went to play an EA game on the Xbox. Steam could make this work with them and the other companies. They have enough pull to make this work - it would be greatly welcomed.
Steam having a monopoly is not a good thing for anyone. Competition is good, even if the other launchers are a bit annoying.
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All except Diablo. Diablo I is still my favorite Diablo game, though.___
The only bliz games i would consider playing lol
You still have to use Battle.net, so that’s an absolute no-go from me.
Glad they’re giving folks options though.
You need a battlenet login, but not the launcher
I’m actually looking forward to checking it out on Steam, then I don’t have to fiddle around anymore with Lutris on my Linux box and I can just use Proton normally within Steam itself.
Quite a treasure you have there in that horadric boob
i’d be okay with having diablo on my steam library. too bad i bought them all on battle.net…
If it goes how Bethesda did you’ll migrate your library over
Blizzard had plans to dump the launcher shortly after D3 2.0 dropped. Then they backpedaled and where like no wait launcher is great! 🤷♂️
“Players on Steam will still have to connect Overwatch 2 to a Battle.net account, but they’ll have access to all of Steam’s amenities like their friends list and achievements.”
Lol. Okay then.
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I’ve been boycotting Blizzard since the bNetd bullshit.
Glad Steam lets you block entire publishers.
