Can you imagine Battle.net beating Steam, then the primary online digital distribution platform ending up being owned by Activision?
I get the icks just thinking about it.
Battlenet brought some really clever innovations back in the day!
If it was 2010 and you had both running, battlenet was clearly superior.
Battlenet’s UI and presentation looked great. Automatic patches, lots of settings to where files should go, info about the game. They also had this sweet feature where you can play when it has the core files, and it continues to download in the background, which still doesn’t exist in non-battlenet games.
Really though, 2010 was also when Blizzard started to fall apart too. Constant churning of WoW expansions, deciding to split StarCraft 2 into three games, and making Diablo 3 look “prettier” was all bad signs.
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Wow, we dodged a bullet there I guess
Blizzard was well liked before they joined Activision
And people would fanboy it just the same as Steam
Yup, it’s a good reminder that Steam can change direction at any point as well.
That can always happen, therefore I hate all locked in services, even if they are good at this moment. But so far it looks like steam is still interested in long-term goal, they didn’t go public yet after all.
I was there… 2000 years ago
Wow gamers were zealots
Thank god for that. There might be scummier companies than Blizzard out there, but I wholeheartedly believe the only reason that Blizzard aren’t on the same level of scum as Nestle and BP Oil is because they make games, and there are only limited opportunities to sell human lives to authoritarian regimes when you just make games.
Valve asked several companies to build something like Steam, was turned down every time and decided to do it themselves.
We dodged a bullet, I’d say
oof. years before heavier-than-air flight, an engineer in Florence wanted to utilise novel aerodynamic techniques to create a “flying helix”, but was reportedly ignored.
Yes, right this way to the Florentine Helicopter Mr. Bryant
