Blizzard games are coming to Steam

Not gonna play them if they include their launcher after game is started from Steam lol.

EDIT: I am very happy to hear that everyone hates them. EA as well as Rockstar has shown that their launchers are shit. On Steam Deck EA games often fail to start at all due to EA launcher updates, and Rockstar launcher takes around 3-5 minutes to start a fucking game (which should start instantly).

I really wish Steam would put their foot down and stop these launchers. They are nothing but a nuisance and add no value for the customer.

EDIT: Just to be clear, when EA Play joined Gamepass there wasn't a separate launcher when you went to play an EA game on the Xbox. Steam could make this work with them and the other companies. They have enough pull to make this work - it would be greatly welcomed.

Sadly for them, I stopped caring about their games quite awhile ago.

Never touched my Blizzard Account again after the sexual harassment and paygap scandal.

I've put 15 years of lifetime into my druid... It still hurts a little because I've loved WoW for a long time.

So Blizz switching to Steam couldn't interest me any less.

Now I'm not gonna buy/play them on steam too

People love a monopoly when it suits them

Glad they made this decision right after the worst patch in Diablo history

I love this! Finally there’s going to be actual statistics to see how much their games are actually dying.

Such a shame that nobody cares - because Blizzard has been irrelevant for a long time

Blizzard had plans to dump the launcher shortly after D3 2.0 dropped. Then they backpedaled and where like no wait launcher is great! 🤷‍♂️

“Players on Steam will still have to connect Overwatch 2 to a Battle.net account, but they’ll have access to all of Steam’s amenities like their friends list and achievements.”

Lol. Okay then.

Link to original news source on Blizzard.com https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23982127/overwatch-2-coming-to-steam-on-august-10

Link to the Steam Page https://store.steampowered.com/app/2357570/Overwatch_2/

Finally, so much people will join, that I'm sure someone will fix the Proton bug where the mouse pointer loses focus and you have to tab out and back in to regain focus after respawning. Hell, there are so many heroes that don't require precise aiming, that it would even make it a playable game on the Steam Deck.

Lol. I have hundreds of hours on OW (NOT OW2) and Diablo III (not IV), and i can safely say I forgo ever playing those 2 games again because of the toxic entity that is Acti-Blizz. Not that I have much choice considering OW cannot even be played as its own game now.

i'd be okay with having diablo on my steam library. too bad i bought them all on battle.net....

You still have to use Battle.net, so that's an absolute no-go from me.

Glad they're giving folks options though.

Great news for Linux users! Bnet was one of the better launchers, but having a launcher for 5 games is a bit silly.

Reading the comments I tend to think that people are so unfamiliar with competition that they fail to recognize it when seeing it at work: if you have competition, stuff fails and dies. This idea that everything should survive and that I as the user should be the receptacle of thousands of shitty products preaching variety as an excuse for their existence is insane. Launchers existed, could have used IP as an advantage to develop a valid product instead failed and therefore will disappear. I still use GOG Galaxy no problem alongside Steam.

The launcher isn't really the problem, it's the fact that Overwatch 2 isn't making them any money!

I still think they're gonna just launch Blizzard.net anyways, similar to Ubisoft games and EA games. Let's not get too ahead now.

Battle.net has been around since at least StarCraft 1. I'm glad Blizzard is showing signs of throwing in the towel when better storefronts/launchers are available

Pretty obviously trying to pull an "Apex Legends" to try and save the flailing Overwatch 2.

I'm not a hardcore gamer but I'm a fan of cloud gaming, first Google Stadia (rip) and later Gforce Now. And Gforce Now supports Steam games so the more games available in the Steam-catalogue, the better.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I've been boycotting Blizzard since the bNetd bullshit.

Glad Steam lets you block entire publishers.

Haven’t you always dreamed of having a launcher to launch your launcher which launches the actual game? Seriously who approves these choices

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.

Great news!

Please yes. Running Diablo in steam deck is annoying. Install lutris, run battle.net,then run Diablo, then login to battle.net, then login to Diablo, then pick your character to actually play the game. Please remove some steps

Just Overwatch 2?

I wonder how this decision relates to the Microsoft acquisition.

Can we have Overwatch 1 instead?

We still can't get free expansions for WoW subscribers? I can't think of any other service where you have to buy the software and pay to use it. Either you buy it and own at least that version outright or you pay a recurring fee for access to the latest version.

I really hope that when Microsoft buys Activision that they bring back Overwatch 1 and put it on Steam. I played OW1 pretty constantly for over 3 years and was having fun with it until the day they shut it down. I played OW2 for less than two weeks and haven't touched it since release. I can respect that some people prefer OW2, but for me it's not even close.

If they can do GOG I'll pick up their games, steam is ok but really I want to own my games and only GOG does that.

Nah

Will it keep blocking Linux / Steam Deck users from playing, though?

Only OW2 for now, hopefully HS soon though.

Hope, that sc2 would achieve some online from this move

Lol the desperation of a flailing bad company. Sorry Blizzard, winter is over.

It's been [UMPTEEN YEARS] since I registered a Steam account, and when I registered my CD key for original Half-Life, I got the Blue Shift and Opposing Force for free. (As is the case with of most Steam library items, I've yet to complete them!) Now. Please let me transfer my shit from Battlenet to Steam. I can't wait to get my Starcraft installed! I could finally be a proper PC gamer! /very mild sarcasm

The only good game that Blizzard has released is Diablo 3, in my opinion.

Also, they are a shitty company that I do not plan to support on Steam.

Considering how poorly their dev’s have been since Activision-Blizztard went woke (around when Vanguard came out) it’s no surprise they are trying to maximize their market. Back when WoW was the undisputed champion of all things MMO’s they never would have considered doing this.

Diablo 4 is garbage, they literally destroyed the concept of seasons that was what kept people playing Diablo 3 for so long.

I’m actually kind of surprised that they aren’t showing up on the Microshaft store first.

I'm sure their games will still use their bnet DRM, d4 especially. Seems like a cheap cash grab, but what else to expect from actiblizz

Gimme steam support for D4 so I can get full compatibility on my steamdeck

Blizzard is trash and so is Steam

YES! Very legal very cool

It'll be nice to at least track playtimes and have that data in 1 location.