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Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2 (www.polygon.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cloudsheep0@kbin.social to c/PCGaming@kbin.social

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Players will still need a Battle.net account, however

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[+] Okalaydokalay@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] cloudsheep0@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Runs directly through Steam according to Mike Ybarra

https://twitter.com/Qwik/status/1681720303389667328

[–] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I cannot imagine they would skip the battle.net launcher, but I would love it if they did!

EDIT: Players using Steam will have access to features of the platform while playing Overwatch 2, such as Steam achievements, their Steam friends list, and the ability to invite them to play in-game.

Dang this is looking positive.

[–] Narrrz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm grudgingly okay with steam launching the apps specific launcher, e. g. Warframe.

I draw the line at it launching the company's own game platform. if I wanted the stupid b. net launcher I would fucking have it already, alright?!

[–] SoSquidTaste@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not to sound doom gloomy here, but my reasons for ditching Blizzard games were absolutely not the launcher. I don't think I'll be going back to Overwatch or anything else in their portfolio because of my issues with game development/marketing (PvE in OW2 promises vs. reality, Warcraft 3 Reforged debacle, etc.).

That said, for anyone who still is up on Blizzard properties, having platform choice is always nice. I still play a ton of Apex Legends and love that it's available via Steam rather than just EA's launcher, for example.

[–] cloudsheep0@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2357570/Overwatch_2/

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23982127/overwatch-2-coming-to-steam-on-august-10

Overwatch 2 Launches in August 10th

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@cloudsheep0 That was one of my hopes! This is so great.

[–] pixel@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not fond of blizzard and I think overwatch 2's time has long since passed so I'm not sure how helpful this will be

But I still play hearthstone and I sincerely think that it's the best the game has ever been so hopefully a steam release is a second wind for the game. Not that it's dead by any means but I'd love for it to feel like a popular game again

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Well, there's a reason they're doing this. Clearly they need the numbers, and that's why OW2 is the first game that's coming to Steam.

[–] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Do people still play Overwatch?!?

[–] Whiskeyomega@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Went from YAY to aww real quick reading i still need a Blizzard account

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