Diablo 4 now Steam Deck Verified before launch but no Steam keys for Battle.net buyers
Diablo 4 now Steam Deck Verified before launch but no Steam keys for Battle.net buyers
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
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.
Why should it matter which launcher I use?
This is answered in the OP article itself:
Why don't some publishers do this? The reasoning is pretty simple really: Valve take a cut of all sales on Steam, including DLC and micro-transactions. So if you purchased directly before, publishers will want to keep you there so any extras you purchase don't get a cut eaten by Valve.
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.
Ioi did that for hitman I believe
has anyone done that?
Has anyone done that?
Bethesda when it deprecated it's launcher
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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Has this game dropped it’s always online requirement? If not, I’m not interested,
Blizzard trying to double dip on customers who want a better experience, color me not at all surprised.