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[AzekZero]

Turns out my January 2024 guesstimate was way too conservative.

I don't play the game so I didn't really know how dire the game's state was at the time.

 

[SJRB]

Fuck this, I should have waited before buying it. I'm almost glad the game turned into a boring shitfest so I don't have to be tempted to double-dip.

Easily, EASILY the biggest regret of this year for me.

It took literally 4 hours for me to go "yeah, I think I'm done". Outrageously poorly designed, boring game.

 

[Wooxsvan]

when its world of warcraft i'll be shocked

 

[FoxMcChief]

Thanks Microsoft.

 

[TrebleShot]

NICE, hopefully a heavy discount like THPS had yesterday.

 

[VolticArchangel]

Mike Ybarra rn:

 

[Guilty_AI]

Battle.net account? No thanks.

 

[VN1X]

hopefully Microsoft handles it the same way they did with Bethesda’s launcher and allow us to transition any purchases over to Steam

You bought games via the Bethesda launcher??

 

[JohnnyFootball]

I'd happily pay a transfer fee to move my Battle.net games to Steam.

Maybe not happily...but I'd love to uninstall Battle.net

I have Starcraft, Diablo 3, Diablo 4 and Warcraft 3 Reforged. on Battle.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Battle.net account? No thanks.

It'll be 'online only' too, for added bullshitery.

 

[Tarin02543]

that would be a big UNO! Of course it will require some other damn launcher.

which doesn't make it a steam edition

 

[Barakov]

All that closer to D2 on Steam.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[BennyBlanco]

All that closer to D2 on Steam.

And Starcraft 2. I would buy both day 1 for full price.

 

[Elder Legend]

What an idiot I am for buying this on battle.net day one.

Now I get to be disappointed twice.

And then the deal closes and its comes to game pass. GG, 3rd time to be disappointed.

 

[64bitmodels]

And Starcraft 2. I would buy both day 1 for full price.

nah don't. Instead grab them on CDkeys, cheaper price but more importantly no money goes to activision or blizzard. gotta let them collapse

 

[Topher]

I'd happily pay a transfer fee to move my Battle.net games to Steam.

Maybe not happily...but I'd love to uninstall Battle.net

I have Starcraft, Diablo 3, Diablo 4 and Warcraft 3 Reforged. on Battle.

I have a feeling that the only transfer options that may be coming will be from battle.net to windows store. Actually, that may not even be an option at some point. Just some kind of weird merge.

Diablo 4 on Steam is all about more sales. I guess it was too much for Blizzard to tell everyone it was going to be a timed exclusives to their own store.

HeisenbergFX4

Tell your boy Ybarra that ain't cool.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Looking forward to Microsoft merging all my games onto steam if they get ABK.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

I have a feeling that the only transfer options that may be coming will be from battle.net to windows store. Actually, that may not even be an option at some point. Just some kind of weird merge.

Diablo 4 on Steam is all about more sales. I guess it was too much for Blizzard to tell everyone it was going to be a timed exclusives to their own store.

HeisenbergFX4

Tell your boy Ybarra that ain't cool.

Yeah thats pretty shady, I will pass it along

 

[64bitmodels]

Personally i'd like valve to 'abuse' their market position in a couple of ways

- No Microtransactions, lootboxes. this should be obvious. Even the cosmetic shit get rid of it. And battlepasses should be placed under HEAVY scrutiny.
- No DRM besides Steam DRM. If your game is good and your company is reputable, it will sell. If you're so worried about pirates, just place a demo. that gets rid of 50% of the people who wanted to pirate anyways.
- No other launchers. If your game ships on Steam it should run without the need for any launcher besides Steam.
- No singleplayer always online games.
- If your game is a buggy unfinished mess it is rejected. Polish your turd into a cupcake before you shove it in next time

Watch as the entire gaming industry bends to the whims of VALVe & gaming quality standards shoot through the roof

 

[Zathalus]

Well as for the game itself, season 2 appears to have some nice changes coming:

Bite Down on Darkness in Season of Blood

A fanged scourge preys on Sanctuary in Season of Blood. Team up with a skillful vampire hunter and use new Vampiric Powers and Pact Armor to bring about the ruin of these pests on October 17.

news.blizzard.com

 

[Mortisfacio]

Honestly have no intention of playing this season, but the QoL improvements are more substantial than previously indicated. There's a LOT they did in 1.2 to improve the game. Still more that needs to be done, but actually making the WT XP bonuses multiplicative instead of additive is huge to help speed up the leveling towards the end. I got burned out and quit at 85 this season, but with these changes, I'd be level 100 with that same time. Adding 5 farmable bosses (this is base content and not just a seasonal thing) is neat too to add extra content to aim for.

 

[Arsic]

New lowest reviewed game of all time incoming . Review bomb army at the ready.

 

[Zathalus]

Personally i'd like valve to 'abuse' their market position in a couple of ways

- No Microtransactions, lootboxes. this should be obvious. Even the cosmetic shit get rid of it. And battlepasses should be placed under HEAVY scrutiny.
- No DRM besides Steam DRM. If your game is good and your company is reputable, it will sell. If you're so worried about pirates, just place a demo. that gets rid of 50% of the people who wanted to pirate anyways.
- No other launchers. If your game ships on Steam it should run without the need for any launcher besides Steam.
- If your game is a buggy unfinished mess it is rejected. Polish your turd into a cupcake before you shove it in next time

Watch as the entire gaming industry bends to the whims of VALVe.

Nice four point plan for Steam to become irrelevant.

 

[SmokedMeat]

I’ve been holding off on Diablo 2 Resurrection for a Steam release.

Only a matter of time.

 

[Elder Legend]

New lowest reviewed game of all time incoming . Review bomb army at the ready.

What fantasy land do you live in? I am assuming you are talking about steam reviews? But the game is 100% not the lowest rated by any means, it is a critical success no matter how you put it. What fucked the game was the dumb patch that nerfed everyone to the ground after it came out, this is why the game got bad rep afterwards.

 

[64bitmodels]

Nice four point plan for Steam to become irrelevant.

OK, just the third and fourth points. Not that I was too serious about this, it'll never become a reality..

 

[DeaDPo0L84]

It's coming to Steam cause it's a steaming pile of crap:

 

[Holammer]

Sell Diablo 1 & 2 to me on Steam. The old misogynist chunky pixel games. Yes, I know D1 is on GOG, I don't care.

I wonder if World of Warcraft would get a noticeable population boost if they put it on Steam too? I might even reactivate my old account and explore all the new shit, just because it's convenient.

 

[Arsic]

What fantasy land do you live in? I am assuming you are talking about steam reviews? But the game is 100% not the lowest rated by any means, it is a critical success no matter how you put it. What fucked the game was the dumb patch that nerfed everyone to the ground after it came out, this is why the game got bad rep afterwards.

I’m talking about steam reviews. Go look at what they did to overwatch 2 on there.

 

[Dorfdad]

if they want to good transfer everyone Battlenet Account license to steam for free.

 

[Sojiro]

Just dump them all over at this point Blizzard. I personally would love to see HotS make it over, since its mostly a dead game, but releasing on Steam would inject some players to it for a bit lol.

 

[Pejo]

I love that PC gaming has essentially become a waiting game. A slow spiral into a singularity that is "your game will eventually end up on Steam, and it will eventually be on sale for $20 or less, and I will then buy it."

 

[StereoVsn]

Easily, EASILY the biggest regret of this year for me.

It took literally 4 hours for me to go "yeah, I think I'm done". Outrageously poorly designed, boring game.

Just think how many years and how much money Bliizzard wasted on this shit. It’s mind boggling that they could fumble D4 so terribly.

And hell I liked D3 once real money AH went away. Just wish they could have controller support and offline play on PC aka consoles but with separate accounts for online be offline play. Anyways at least D3 was fun to play.

 

[Dane]

Was bound to happen with MS finalizing it.

 

[SmokedMeat]

if they want to good transfer everyone Battlenet Account license to steam for free.

That’d be great. Microsoft did it with the Bethesda Store.

 

[Eotheod]

Hopefully microsoft replaces their own unspeakably bad launcher with battlenet. Battlenet isn’t great these days but orders of magnitude better than the Xbox launcher.

No, it's really not. The Xbox app is perfectly usable and in fact does the job of delivering game pass/store games perfectly fine.

 

[Elder Legend]

I’m talking about steam reviews. Go look at what they did to overwatch 2 on there.

Yeah I saw. Overwatch 2 frankly deserves it though. The game was a straight up lie from Blizzard since day one of its initial reveal. They never made any sense why it was called Overwatch 2, kept being vague, the whole marketing for that game was a fucking mess. Then the game comes out and it just turns out to be shit because of all the PvP changes and then they tell everyone fuck you no single player/co-op for you. Very dumb game and situation. Poorly handled across the dev team and the publisher. Diablo 4 is actually good, but Blizzard's ego got the worst of them and they nerfed everyone after a great launch and ruined the fun. 2 completely different situations/

 

[Hip Hop]

The beginning of the end for battle.net?

it doesnt make sense other than that being the answer.

But they spent years building it up, and maybe this is for those that held out this whole time because of Battle.net

 

[SantaC]

Dayum! Didn't expect this one to come this quickly to steam!

Bcuz it tanks hard atm.

 

[gothmog]

Any word about transferring licenses from bnet?

 

[Comandr]

Personally i'd like valve to 'abuse' their market position in a couple of ways

- No Microtransactions, lootboxes. this should be obvious. Even the cosmetic shit get rid of it. And battlepasses should be placed under HEAVY scrutiny.
- No DRM besides Steam DRM. If your game is good and your company is reputable, it will sell. If you're so worried about pirates, just place a demo. that gets rid of 50% of the people who wanted to pirate anyways.
- No other launchers. If your game ships on Steam it should run without the need for any launcher besides Steam.
- No singleplayer always online games.
- If your game is a buggy unfinished mess it is rejected. Polish your turd into a cupcake before you shove it in next time

Watch as the entire gaming industry bends to the whims of VALVe & gaming quality standards shoot through the roof

You should be the CEO.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Being on Steam isn’t going to make this game good. What a fucking let down this boring time wasting turd turned out to be.

 

[amigastar]

D2R is better but theres only that much i can play it. I was honestly disappointed with Diablo 4. It's time for a new Arpg, i'm looking forward to Titan Quest 2.

 

[lh032]

guess no one is playing this game lolz

 

[Gamezone]

What fantasy land do you live in? I am assuming you are talking about steam reviews? But the game is 100% not the lowest rated by any means, it is a critical success no matter how you put it. What fucked the game was the dumb patch that nerfed everyone to the ground after it came out, this is why the game got bad rep afterwards.

I trust user reviews way more than official game reviews.

 

[Fabieter]

Better hope whoever replaces Gabe keeps the trend going. Doesn't sell out and go public either- would be terrible as well.

This gives me the horror as well. I dont think the next ceo will be gaben 2. By the time gabe leaves the industry steam won't have any competition at all. Hope that bodes well for us.

 

[Dev1lXYZ]

I enjoyed it on PS5. Nice to know I can play it anywhere I please with Steam Deck.

 

[BennyBlanco]

No, it's really not. The Xbox app is perfectly usable and in fact does the job of delivering game pass/store games perfectly fine.

I have had it demand to install games on the C drive. I have had it flat out refuse to install certain games. Some games won’t update unless you manually force it to. Same with the app itself. It’s a shitshow and I’ve had no such issues with battlenet.

 

[Mortisfacio]

guess no one is playing this game lolz

I personally won't this season. I'm still replaying CyberPunk. Have Starfield to get through, Alan Wake 2, Lies of P and Lords of the Fallen. I've got planned overtime with work coming up and going into the holidays with family... I'll return season 3. This update fixes a ton of issues I had with the game.