- Moah ( @Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•7 hours ago
Valve asked several companies to build something like Steam, was turned down every time and decided to do it themselves.
- justme ( @justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 19•15 hours ago
Wow, we dodged a bullet there I guess
- ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 11•13 hours ago
Blizzard was well liked before they joined Activision
And people would fanboy it just the same as Steam
- sunzu2 ( @sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ) 1•3 hours ago
Wow gamers were zealots
- justme ( @justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 5•11 hours ago
I was there… 2000 years ago
- lobut ( @lobut@lemmy.ca ) 7•12 hours ago
Yup, it’s a good reminder that Steam can change direction at any point as well.
- justme ( @justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•11 hours ago
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.
- merthyr1831 ( @merthyr1831@lemmy.ml ) 3•12 hours ago
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.
- kandoh ( @kandoh@reddthat.com ) 1•6 hours ago
Yes, right this way to the Florentine Helicopter Mr. Bryant
- schizo ( @schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business ) 89•1 day ago
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.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 4•9 hours ago
You have to realize that if they had become Steam, they would have had so much money they probably wouldn’t have sold to Activision. Hell, they probably would have been the ones buying Activision.
- ByteOnBikes ( @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ) 6•12 hours ago
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.
- TacticsConsort ( @TacticsConsort@yiffit.net ) 15•1 day ago
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.