Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2

Re:Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with ... by ztgasdf on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:24PM (#36790965)

Watch as they force the B.NET launcher to be used either way. It's just an extra hoop to go through for end users.

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Re:Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with ... by psadauskas on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:27PM (#36790991)

From the polygon article: https://www.polygon.com/23799285/blizzard-pc-games-steam-ove...

> Blizzard says that players on Steam will still need a Battle.net account connected to Overwatch 2 to play the game.

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Re:Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with ... by ztgasdf on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:32PM (#36791099)

Connected account makes sense but that doesn't necessarily imply the launcher is required too.

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Re:Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with ... by psadauskas on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:42PM (#36791260)

True. The Ubisoft games on Steam launch the UPlay app in the background, so it'll probably be the same.

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Re:Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with ... by predictabl3 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:36PM (#36792002)

OW2 can already run without Battle.net running, but launching it through Battle.net takes care of auth for you. Presumably they will modify the Steam OW2 client to include the Steam lib and handle auth via Steam. I think it's actually reasonable to have hope that Steam can launch into OW2 without B.net.

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Re:Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with ... by pests on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:10PM (#36795738)

I'm sure they will just add steam account linking to battle.net and treat it like any other platform.

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Re:Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with ... by doublerabbit on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:14PM (#36794840)

As does EA Origin.

EA with it then you can't play PvZ Garden Warfare.

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Re:Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with ... by flipdot on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:05PM (#36791581)

Looks like OW2 will run directly through Steam, without Battle.net required: https://twitter.com/Qwik/status/1681720303389667328

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Re:Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with ... by ztgasdf on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:08AM (#36799902)

Exciting to see. Hope they pull through with this.

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Re:Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with ... by shrimp_emoji on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:31AM (#36800184)

I hope not. Blizzard games run pretty well on Linux through Wine, but the launcher eventually didn't (classically, and perhaps on purpose), locking you out. I love launchers; they're such a cool value add!

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