Steam meets Blizzard.

The first Blizzard game coming to Steam will be Overwatch 2, and it’ll be available on August 10th — just in time for Steamers (that’s what they’re called, right?) to participate in the Overwatch 2: Invasion event that introduces the long-awaited PvE story missions.

  • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    I doubt this becomes a trend. Overwatch is a dying game that the sunk a lot of money into.

    If Diablo makes it on steam, I’ll be amazed.

    • bobbysq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if this had something to do with the impending Microsoft buyout, seeing as they’ve been putting all their PC games on Steam for a while. That being said, I also wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft starts moving away from both Steam and Battle.net once the deal closes in favor of the Xbox launcher now that they have a ton of potential exclusives for it.

    • Fuck Yankies@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I doubt this becomes a trend. Overwatch is a dying game that the sunk a lot of money into.

      Probably why they’re bringing it over to Steam in the first place. When the other games start lagging they’ll be put on Steam as well

    • apprehensively_human@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yup. I’ve had an itch to play diablo 4 and now with rumours of starcraft 3 being developed I really want them to get their act together so I can support them again.

    • Gutotito@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      If their sale to Microsoft goes through, you can bet on it. I give M$ a lot of shit, and deservedly so, but their history of buying game companies and turning them into professional outfits is established.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Players on Steam will still have to connect Overwatch 2 to a Battle.net account

    So you still have to jump though pointless hoops, at least you don’t have to download another client anymore though

  • ThirdWorldOrder@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Well this will certainly make things easier than having multiple launchers. Wish we could link the two platforms instead of having to pay twice… but I think that’s a pipe dream.

        • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          It would kind of make sense for them to give owners the game on steam. If buying through their store gave you the license through their launcher plus a steam key, you might get more people to buy it from you without giving Steam their cut.

          I know Steam doesn’t give you unlimited keys, you have to sell on Steam in volume at some point, and you have a huge amount of licenses sold on your own platform already, but you could make people get in line if needed. You might even be able to work something out with Valve, with the belief that moving a sizable portion of the user base to playing through Steam brings them more value than 30% of the small handful of duplicate sales or sales lost to their storefront.

          • ThirdWorldOrder@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            They didn’t do it with Call of Duty last fall so I’m not hopeful at all that they’ll be giving away any steam keys

    • Trapping5341@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can add non steam games to steam so you only have to look at one launcher. You won’t have all of the information that gamea purchased on steam come from though.

      • ThirdWorldOrder@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Friends list too. On steam deck to play d4 right now you have to link to the bnet launcher I believe

        • Trapping5341@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah just like ea and ubi games. You can buy them on steam but when you launch them it opens the respective launcher and then launches. I just did it with rocket League the other day because I have it on steam but I put some old parts together for daughter to have her own PC and you can only get rocket league through epic. So I installed the added it to steam so she can launch it right from there.