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Blizzard Games are coming to Steam (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 years ago by Cmar@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Being able to see exact number of players playing could be an interesting metric Blizz might not be wanting to share when it comes to WoW, wondering if we'll ever see it on Steam.

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[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 17 points 3 years ago (3 children)

It provably will require Blizzard's launcher so why even bother?

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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 13 points 3 years ago

Still easier to manage than a gazillion battlenet launcher instances on Lutris.

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[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

They already said Overwatch 2 won't require Battle.net.

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[–] Thanks4Nothing@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 years ago

That is exciting...I really dislike battlenet. The most recent UI redesign is awful.

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[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

They confirmed that won't open other launcher

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[–] dhawos@jlai.lu 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Do you know where so I can share it to my friends ? We were having that discussion last evening

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[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

https://lemmy.zip/comment/1038255

Another comment leading to another comment sorry it's a Twitter screen shot.

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[–] dhawos@jlai.lu 1 point 3 years ago

Thanks !

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

"when the time is right" the article says.

So when they predict sales would increase by more than 30% I presume, if Valve still takes 40%.

When I tried to get the Xbox Indie Games XNA kit it said you got a quarter for every dollar sold on the indie games store back on the 360

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[–] Voyajer@kbin.social 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Valve hasn't ever taken 40%. Their cut starts at 30% and drops to 20% after some gross sales threshold. Also steam keys have zero cut and half of your total steam platform sales can be keys meaning if you're effective at selling keys you can have an effectively 10% cut.

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[–] Kerred@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Oops meant to say the regular 30, sorry about that, thanks for the clearer explanation

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[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

What's the maths for that 10%?

I dislike the huge cut Valve takes from all the indies but with everything they've done in recent years with the Deck and Index has still won me over.

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[–] Voyajer@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago

It's the theoretical minimum effective cut attainable on steam.

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[–] mrquantumoff@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago

They don't. Last I checked, Valve takes 30% or less (depends on the product's sales)

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[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 years ago

Obviously won't happen, but it would be fun to have WoW's game time imported into Steam and watch everybody's game time go through the roof.

[–] Matte@feddit.it 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

but of course, if you already bought the game on bnet, you’ll have to buy it again via steam.

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[–] Thanks4Nothing@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Bought? Its Free 2 Play. It still requires a bnet login, so you don't even need to rebuy cosmetics/skins.

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[–] Matte@feddit.it 1 point 3 years ago

ah! I didn’t know that. I was actually thinking about Diablo though and all my other bnet games. I think they won’t send out steam keys… I’d like to make them easier to play on the Steam Deck.

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[–] Chirp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

I presume Diablo 4 will be next considering how many people are already playing it on Steam Deck.

[–] rodhlann@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Is HotS included?

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[–] Jardthebard@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Does blizzard even claim HotS anymore? :(

Sincerely, a continuing avid player of HotS

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[–] chemslayer@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago

God, HotS with even a little developer support + steam deck w/ a good controller scheme would bring me back so hard. Still the best Moba imo, so sad it got abandoned

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