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Blizzard games are coming to Steam (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/games
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I guess they're giving up on convincing people to download their launcher.

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[–] changingfmh 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great news for Linux users! Bnet was one of the better launchers, but having a launcher for 5 games is a bit silly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's nothing stopping them from pulling of a Rockstar move and still requiring you to use a launcher when you start the game in Steam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So far that is not the plan - they could change it of course I'm sure, but it won't be this way at launch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but it's a bit easier to install the game directly from Steam instead of installing Bnet as a non Steam game and then downloading the game on Bnet.