If they bring Diablo 4 to Steam I can finally uninstall the BNET launcher.
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Basically, you can now install and run the game directly from Steam instead of Battle.net, but you still need to login the game through your Battle.net email.
Does this meanā¦
my dreamā¦
ofā¦ having a Torbjorn Engineer skinā¦ could someday become a reality
ALSO hope that means we no longer need Bnet launcher, something I wanted for AGES.
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inb4 Overwhelmingly Negative review score
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I think this is great news after they officially said that the playerbase is in decline, as stated in their earnings report earlier today.
(Hopefully) it will bring in more players from Steam.
GabeN > Kotick
facts
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TF2 players are advertising Team Fortress on the OW2 steam forums hahaha
Love them for that 
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Imma do the same then.
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? I havenāt played TF2 in like 9 years. What made you think that?
TF2 has a fat seal
Overwatch 2 does not have a fat seal
Itās obvious which is superior
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Not just fat seal,
Itās got SNAKES
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Yea itāll probably work similar to most other third party games forcing you to have an account on their launcher
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https://steamcommunity.com/app/2357570/discussions/0/3808407060880370871/
bcs ppl getting angy and making threads like this LOL
Oh, I completely misread oops
I gotta look at the posts there
Edit: Ok looking at the title of posts is pretty entertaining
Not always. I mean, ESO and FFXIV are a good example of that, but yeahā¦ in this case is bad news
Pushing overwatch on Steam means only one thing.
They are doing this move to potentially reach new customers because the game is dying.
Overwatch 2 has very poor player retention numbers and income.
Overwatch League is in an abysmal state with literally no profit.
OWL Profits barely make 1% of the companyās net revenue.
You can read all that in the recent Activision-Blizzard investor report of 19 July 2023: https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/activision-blizzard-announces-second-quarter-2023-financial
" * Blizzard continued to engage the Overwatch Ā® and Warcraft Ā® communities with live operations in the second quarter. While engagement and player investment in Overwatch 2 declined sequentially in the quarterā¦
Overwatch Leagueā¢
As previously disclosed, our collaborative arrangements for our professional esports leagues continue to face headwindsā¦
ā¦Total revenues from the Overwatch League comprise less than 1% of our consolidated net revenues.
Oh and you will need to run both steam and battlenet at the same time to play the game, so having the game on Steam means nothing for us.
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Ho lee sheeet
My body is ready
Lemme copy and paste some titles from there:
TF2 Better
stop talking about tf2 plszzzzz
PSA: Do NOT play Lifeweaver and Roadhog
Just go play TF2
Bye bnet
This has to be off season Aprils Fools joke right?
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Humor
TF2 Ripoff?
Wait what steam??
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Doesnāt mean the game is dying but more that they could just be looking to bring more people to play the game that donāt want to install the app. I think it is because of the Steam Deck being something many are getting, it makes the game more mobile so fans can play OW on the go like they can with the Switch.
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What it means is that you still need a Battle.net account to play the game and this is so your progress can still be accessed if you played the game before. Nothing wrong with that because many other games that are tied to other companies like CoD, Square Exix with FF14, Ubisoft, EA do the same thing. Nothing new here.