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

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[–] [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.