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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Battle.net launcher can literally be closed after the game is running. It even has a setting to automatically do so. Why would they pull this sort of bullshit, I have no idea

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Why would they pull this sort of bullshit, I have no idea

They aren't, they said that the Steam versions of Blizzard games will not require the Battle.net launcher at all.

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

Each time battle net launcher opens,it displays a popup banner for cosmetics, warcraft stuff, overwatch stuff etc. They get free ads in your eyeballs.

No way they will let it go. It will be steam -> battle.net -> game

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I expect the worst, and I am usually right. You are probably correct lol.