Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 10 months ago (32 children)

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

Why is it so hard for companies to build a game launcher that doesn't suck? Is it just a lowest bidder situation?

[–] NekkoDroid@programming.dev -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

IMO my favorite launcher to use out of all is probably Battle.net, even over Steam. This is probably mostly because Steam is terrible unresponsive and its startup is still kinda ass (I just tested the start and noticed its 3 fucking loading screens: Verifying installtion, Logging in and finally loading the page. All as separate windows).

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 10 points 10 months ago

Wow. Ive never heard someone say something positive about battle net

[–] dlpkl@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I agree. I don't play Blizzard Activision games for other reasons, but the battle.net launcher was by far the best.

I don't get why, when PC gamers spend thousands to get a quick, smooth machine, that they put up with the shitfest that is Valve. I mean, it's 2023 why is the UI still a website? Why is it that I can't stop the news from popping up? And it's so damn unresponsive and laggy.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

well, I don't think battle.net is the worst launcher

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