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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/games
 

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

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[–] Carighan 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] pory 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Overwatch 2 failing is bad news? It's everything wrong with GAAS development. If it eats shit and dies, the industry can only take away good lessons from it.

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[–] InverseParallax 6 points 1 year ago

Ow1 with flexible teams was fine, I get why they added the restrictions, but they didn't help.

Ow2 is pointless trash.

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[–] bracdawg 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This'll be nice. I refused to play blizz games based on their conduct with women and I didn't want their launcher on my pc.

[–] assassin_aragorn 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That and their response to "Free HK" really pissed me off.

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[–] UltraMagnus0001 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The company that makes Doom lets you use steam and allows you to transfer your data.

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[–] Imperial_Genesis 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] decadentrebel 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Being able to play the original Warcraft again would be awesome and nostalgic.

[–] MeanEYE 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you mean Warcraft 2, then yes. If you mean 3, that's not possible they killed that one for the "remake".

[–] decadentrebel 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant the first one. Orcs and Humans.

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[–] TheSpookiestUser 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what the playercounts will look like? It'll only capture people launching the game through Steam, of course, but I figure they'll be decently high and score among the top concurrent players anyway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

If it's anything like Path of Exile, around 60% of their playerbase uses Steam over their standalone launcher.

[–] quinten 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great news!

[–] Samuraipizzacat 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bwahahaha. I was already back and forth with wow for the longest time after wotlk but you could see the direction change and I was a huge overwatch fan. It was my new TF2. But damn it was like coming out of childhood and realizing your favorite hero was not who you thought he was. I'm still holding out hope for valve. They aren't public (I don't think) and gabe has made some very good business decisions. Not to mention the steam deck has done more to take market away from the guilt windows has on gaming. This is a wild time to be alive.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how this decision relates to the Microsoft acquisition.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] BlackVenom 7 points 1 year ago

Can we have Overwatch 1 instead?

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