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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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[-] elouboub@kbin.social 48 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 53 points 1 year ago

Ads. Ads and data harvesting.

[-] thann@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

yeah, plus steam takes 30%

[-] sheepyowl@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

The games are coming to Steam. Even if the launcher is there, Steam still gets the 30%

[-] thann@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

IDK what your comment is about, but its not a coincidence the first blizz game coming to steam is free to play,

[-] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In-app purchases, mtx, DLC, and premium currency are also subject to Valve tax for games that are on Steam. Free to play means "enough people pay $200+ that we can get away with not selling it for $50", putting it on Steam still means Valve gets a piece of the pie.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Battle.net launcher pre-dates Steam though, doesn’t it?

Edit: guess not. Steam came out in 2003. I hadn’t heard of it until well after the Battle.net launcher came out in 2013. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[-] beefcat@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Battle.net actually launched in 1996, though the client as it existed back then would hardly be recognizable as a launcher/storefront today. The modern client launched in 2009.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Battle.net is dead and gone. The launcher has nothing to do with battle.net and everything to do with attempting to harvest as much data as possible, bonus if you run it in the background without playing any of their games.