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From what I understand you have to re-purchase if you already own it on Battle.net, which is pretty frustrating. As playing on the Steam Deck would be much easier in Steam.

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Which is such bs. Pretty much every tiny indie studio can hand out extra Steam keys but Blizzard apparently cannot?

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Should be possible to add to steam as a non steam game etc? Sucks to do it in a roundabout way, but yeah

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I have done this, but it is clunky having to first launch the Battle.net launcher, then launch Diablo IV on the steam deck. It would be much better to skip the launcher. I would hope when you bought the game through steam you wouldn’t be forced to go through the launcher.

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I’d love to skip the shitty launcher even on desktop Linux.

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Yeah, that’s what I’d expect as well. I’d have much preferred to have bought the game on Steam myself.

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Desperate times.

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Indeed.

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It’s a correlation not a cosation. Bliz are getting bought by MS, and Ms releases their games on Steam also

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I really wish I could believe that, but:

  1. By that same argument, I should expect Blizz games on the Xbox platform (or at least game pass). But ActiBlizz has said that while they plan to do that, not to expect it until at least 2024 when the acquisition closes (if it does). Which also raises the fact that …

  2. MSFT hasn’t acquired Blizz yet, so the push to the Steam platform is likely not driven by that narrative yet.

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