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I guess they're giving up on convincing people to download their launcher.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can nearly guarantee you that once you download it from Steam servers that it will require the Battle.net launcher.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I can see this isn't your first rodeo!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mike Ybarra confirmed this is not the case. They will launch directly from Steam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a source? I want to believe this so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They already said this won’t be the case

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

This is battle.net 2.0. Most of Battle 1.0's functionality had to either be ported or just isn't there.

Battle.net 1.0 is so different that warcraft III vomited server instability when it moved to 2.0. They're the same in name only.

And as others have pointed out, it will probably still require 2.0 in order to play the games, just that Steam's launcher will point you to battle.net

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Since Diablo. Back when I played on dialup. I'm old.