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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is really good and really bad news.

On the plusside, it really seems like running Battle.net is not a requirement, and it just logs in the bnet account once ingame. Two thumbs up. More availability and people being able to use Steam as a somewhat sensible launcher instead of the frankly annoying Battle.net, even better.

On the downside, I guess this also confirms beyond the investors call that OW2 is bleeding players quickly - and for good reason, since they've shown they cannot handle the fundamental design changes from the switch to 5v5 at all.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Overwatch 2 failing is bad news? It's everything wrong with GAAS development. If it eats shit and dies, the industry can only take away good lessons from it.

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Ow1 with flexible teams was fine, I get why they added the restrictions, but they didn't help.

Ow2 is pointless trash.

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[–] bracdawg@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This'll be nice. I refused to play blizz games based on their conduct with women and I didn't want their launcher on my pc.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That and their response to "Free HK" really pissed me off.

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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The company that makes Doom lets you use steam and allows you to transfer your data.

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[–] Imperial_Genesis@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm actually looking forward to checking it out on Steam, then I don't have to fiddle around anymore with Lutris on my Linux box and I can just use Proton normally within Steam itself.

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[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder what the playercounts will look like? It'll only capture people launching the game through Steam, of course, but I figure they'll be decently high and score among the top concurrent players anyway.

[–] Skray@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

If it's anything like Path of Exile, around 60% of their playerbase uses Steam over their standalone launcher.

[–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Being able to play the original Warcraft again would be awesome and nostalgic.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you mean Warcraft 2, then yes. If you mean 3, that's not possible they killed that one for the "remake".

[–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I meant the first one. Orcs and Humans.

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[–] quinten@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Great news!

[–] Samuraipizzacat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Bwahahaha. I was already back and forth with wow for the longest time after wotlk but you could see the direction change and I was a huge overwatch fan. It was my new TF2. But damn it was like coming out of childhood and realizing your favorite hero was not who you thought he was. I'm still holding out hope for valve. They aren't public (I don't think) and gabe has made some very good business decisions. Not to mention the steam deck has done more to take market away from the guilt windows has on gaming. This is a wild time to be alive.

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[–] Rokin@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] ono@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder how this decision relates to the Microsoft acquisition.

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[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Can we have Overwatch 1 instead?

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