Lost vikings and Blackthorne were the only interesting games blizzard ever made and since they will go on making diablos and war/starcraft sequels forever i don't really miss their presence on steam and origin.
It's quite easy to understand though. They're heavily focused on making money, that's why they only make three titles over and over, because they sell good, but at the same time they're so greedy, they won't let a single cent go to someone other than themselves, namely steam, origin or others.
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I can understand not liking them, but over the course of 8 years from 96-2004 they made games in two new genres for them and then made drastic changes to the formula for one of those series with a sequel (Diablo 2). They're also currently making a digital-only card game, which is both new for them (they didn't create the WoW TCG, only licensed/published/supported) and currently in the market seems to be a poorly established genre. They DO have a tendency to stick to the same universes and reuse established plot-lines, though. If you look at other developers, most of them will stick to the small number of genres in which they established themselves, so this really doesn't seem to be something that's really noteworthy. For example, Valve has released a slew of first-person action games (mostly shooters and Ricochet :D ), 2 first-person puzzlers, one top-down shooter (has to be my favorite genre, btw), and one MOBA (based heavily on mechanics from a game by Blizzard, I might add). Sounds like Blizzard has them matched, 4 genres for 4 genres.
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Valve isn't making money from making actual games obviously, they don't even need it at this point. So if i look at other gamemaking dudes, i don't usually see them making the exact same three titles over and over again.
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Although you can add non-steam games to the steam library you of course don't have the same kind if integration. (Achievements and news and such)
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Blizzard has no huge area of benefit from listing on Steam. They already keep their own games updated. They already have their own storefront that works well. They already have their own DRM which is just as unobtrusive as Steam is.
It would be convenient for the players, but less efficient for Blizzard as a company.
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battlenet does have GREAT customer support in my opinion
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not really lady TRUCKER...it's just that Battle.net sold only Blizzard games...but ur too retard to understand that.
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This will be my last message.
I can't believe how immature you are.
Like I wrote further down, I apologize for dragging this discussion so far down, but wow man, I don't think I ever met someone as stupid as you are.
I wish you luck in finding sanity, I really do.
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This should be more of a Valve vs EA vs Blizzard. Obviously Walmart is not going to sell Tesco branded products. These are essentially stores. (BTW, not my analogy, stolen from a similar forum elsewhere)
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Coz Blizzard has a larger fan group than Steam and Origin together, Hell Blizzard could sell thier newest expansion in ONLY one shop in some god forsaken little town in Canada and thier fans would still find a way to get it ^_^
However you are wrong Blizzard is now owned by Activision and Acivision games you can find plenty of :p so your theory and logic is a biiiit flawed ^_^
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Are you joking now? Steam is the best PC platform ever (shop with thousands of games, modding, friends, reviews and much more).
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It would be nice, but the battle.net client are quite nice in my opinion and works perfectly fine.
I don't think blizzard would sell a lot more games because they are on steam.
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Reason is very simple - Blizzard has recently introduced beta version of their Battle.net application. In other words - Blizzard is making their own Steam-like game downloader/launcher thingy just for their games. Ultimately, having such application is the only way since people like the convenience and Blizz would never share their profits with some other platform by putting their games on Steam/Origin
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Dear SteamGifts,
This may be a absolutely stupid question. But, why is there not a single Blizzard game on Steam or Origin? I would think there games would sell even better then they do now. Especially StarCraft 2. I know a bunch of trolls are going to say that blizzard games sell just fine. Which they do, I am just saying they would sell a lot more copies then for people who want to rely on Blizzards store or retail copies as a way of getting the game.
What is all of your opinions on this?
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