• Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Blizzard trying to double dip on customers who want a better experience, color me not at all surprised.

  • BigFig@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What made any of you think they’d give you a free steam key? Has anyone done that? Do you go to the epic store and say hey I already own this in steam give it to me for free

    • talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Because I bought the game? (Well I suppose it’s really renting it now)

      Why should it matter which launcher I use? It says I need a battle.net account so I don’t see why it wouldn’t just work since they know I already bought it.

    • David From Space@orbiting.observer
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      1 year ago

      GOG Connect did it until January of this year. You could sync certain games from your GOG library and get a Steam Key for it. It wasn’t popular with publishers I’m assuming, because Capitalism; the number of titles you could do it to had dwindled to almost nothing, but it’s happened.

    • Tau@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Has anyone done that?

      Bethesda when it deprecated it’s launcher

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    For Diablo 4 being Steam Deck Verified, this means everything should just work out of the box directly from Steam and Valve’s Diablo 4 verification was done on Proton Experimental.

    It already worked pretty great on Steam Deck anyway, as I showcased previously.

    Well, if you were hoping to simply transfer your Battle.net purchase over to Steam, it’s a solid nope.

    Even though Steam keys cost developers / publishers nothing, Blizzard aren’t going to provide you with one.

    As mentioned on X (formerly Twitter) by Adam Fletcher, the Global Community Development Director on Diablo, in reply to a user asking about having to buy it again Fletcher replied: "Yes.

    The reasoning is pretty simple really: Valve take a cut of all sales on Steam, including DLC and micro-transactions.


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  • M500@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Has this game dropped it’s always online requirement? If not, I’m not interested,