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

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

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[–] zikk_transport2@lemmy.world 206 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (26 children)

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 48 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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 (1 children)

Ads. Ads and data harvesting.

[–] thann@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sheepyowl@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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,

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