Honest question. I have never played a game on Steam. Why would someone play all of season 1 on Bnet and then switch to steam and pay for it again? Do they get different rewards or something? Is it somehow better through Steam?
Im asking because I just read MULTIPLE reviews of people that have been playing since launch on Bnet and then switched to steam and paid Blizzard again. There has to be a reason for this, no?
What kind of gamer are you to not ever play a game on steam???
Anyway, I think the reason is a lot of people on Steam have had their account for years and probably want to keep all their achievements/games all in one place.
I would assume a few of them just buy it, write a bad review, and refund 
An employed one 
Wish I had more time
Yeah I just don’t get that… maybe I will check out steam this weekend just to try and understand.
Yes I’ve been employed for 26 years now and it’s crazy to think you’ve never played Half Life or Counterstrike haha, one of the greatest franchises to ever be created.
hmm I played both of them at launch… were they orginally on Steam? Actually, maybe I did play on steam then because I remember playing Team Fortress 2 at launch also for liek 4 months and think that was Steam. Must have an old account somewhere.
On the all-in-one launcher thingy after i discover playnite, i get over that obsession completely, because playnite just mile better than anything else i use.
On the double paid side, pure and simple they just stupid.
Yes they were both created by Valve a looong time ago, who pretty much created Steam.
uhm no…just import a non steam game from your HW to steam and hit play, it will open it from battle net on your pc so no.
i stopped being a steam-simp when they stopped accepting my prepaid CCs.
they work everywhere else, screw steam.
im not buying your steam-cards, just… no.
Bnet launcher is additional bloat you can divest yourself of if you are only playing d4 on it.
Also native support for steam deck (also no need for bnet bloat on a stressed platform).
I don’t understand it either.
Anyone thats been playing both Valve and Blizzard games for years should be used to them being separate clients. I played the hell out of CS: Source/1.6 and old Blizzard games like WC3, D2, and Vanilla WoW and was always cool with Steam and Blizzard games being separate. I only use the Steam and BNET storefronts so it’s not hard to manage two accounts/logins… oh and I guess GOG but I only use GOG for Diablo 1.
Wow. What if the only active game you have is d4 on the bnet launcher, and you have most if not all of your active library on steam.
Would you not try to divest yourself of an ap you dont need.
i personally couldnt care less if i launch it via steam, or via battlenet. its not like i got any of these running in the background all day anyway, so it really doesnt matter.
It runs better on the steam deck if opened via steam instead of running the bnet launcher on steam deck.
Personally i dont close my bnet app. But its not about me because i dont use steam.
If i approached this topic from a egocentric manner, i would say it doesnt make sense because steam sucks i hate that platform.
Original Half-life and Counterstrike pre-date Steam. Steam was introduced with Half-life 2. You literally couldn’t buy HL2 without using Steam. It really annoyed a few of us. Mostly us antisocial single player types who don’t believe we should be forced to have an always on internet app running just to be able to play a single player game…
That said, it’s become so ubiquitous and has a million games available on it that I can understand why people would prefer to use it to BNet (or GoG or Epic or any other game store). Especially if they have a huge friends list on Steam.
to be honest, i dont like steam too much either. i got a few games on it, but i personally dont get all the steam hype.
maybe im a little old fashioned, stuff i dont need all the time when im on my pc isnt running. ^^
I uninstall stuff i dont use. I have a lot of friends on my bnet ap so its a social networking tool for me, which is why it doesnt close.
Others use steam exactly the same way.
yea fair. didnt really look at it under a social media point of view since we all pretty much use discord here ^^