Blizzard games are coming to Steam (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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I guess they're giving up on convincing people to download their launcher.

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[-] zikk_transport2@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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).

[-] elouboub@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I don't understand what the point of a blizzard launcher is - steam is already a launcher.

[-] LuckyCharmsNSoyMilk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Ads. Ads and data harvesting.

[-] PenguinJuice@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This should be unacceptable. Launchers are bloatware.

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] bleepbloopbleep@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] uglytruck@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] simple@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Steam having a monopoly is not a good thing for anyone. Competition is good, even if the other launchers are a bit annoying.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Imperial_Genesis@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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.