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

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    Not gonna play them if they include their launcher after game is started from Steam lol.

    EDIT: I am very happy to hear that everyone hates them. EA as well as Rockstar has shown that their launchers are shit. On Steam Deck EA games often fail to start at all due to EA launcher updates, and Rockstar launcher takes around 3-5 minutes to start a fucking game (which should start instantly).

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      Mike Ybarra confirmed on the bird site that these games will launch directly through Steam, no bundled launcher nonsense.

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      I don’t understand what the point of a blizzard launcher is - steam is already a launcher.

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      Do we know if it’ll work this way ? It sounds so stupid but I wouldn’t put it past them

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        Pretty sure it either allows to login within game, or launches their own (micro?) launcher first, where you have to login with Blizzard account and then starts the game.

        Pretty much all “steam games” that are primarily available elsewhere run this way using mini launchers…

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      Battle.net launcher can literally be closed after the game is running. It even has a setting to automatically do so. Why would they pull this sort of bullshit, I have no idea

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      On Steam Deck EA games often fail to start at all due to EA launcher updates, and Rockstar launcher takes around 3-5 minutes to start a fucking game (which should start instantly).

      I mean, this sounds suspiciously like something a company that makes the device that also owns and runs the biggest digital game store might do intentionally.