Back then the excuse was “The internet is just a passing fad”
PMmeyourspicythought on
blizzard has made some of the dumbest moves ever in terms of providing infrastructure for community and making sure that people are incentivized to stay playing the game. Like, it’s IDIOTIC that in D2R the chat features are fucking awful.
jcpmojo on
I agree with them. I can’t stand the Steam model.
chillywanton on
Just shows you why execs who don’t know their own product and don’t listen to the customer always make short-term decisions that have long-term effects.
TechTuna1200 on
Let’s just be happy they missed that boat. Steam is not perfect, but they are doing a splendid job and being a private company really helps.
SativaSawdust on
Who the fuck cares? Fuck the Blizzard Execs. They’ve destroyed a creative powerhouse.
aasteveo on
And record labels could have bought Napster and used it to sell music instead of letting a computer company steal all of the profits from their industry.
Every decision Blizzard has made in the last 10 years has been awful, so we should all be thankful we have Steam instead of these fuckers
Gneppy on
sure, and i could have invested in crypo in 2008
shn6 on
Thank god for that
rodentmaster on
Having used battle.net a long long time ago along with signing up for steam relatively early (only way to get certain half-life updates), no it couldn’t have. Battle.net was a broken buggy mess and regardless of the options it may or may not have added to the “store”, the DRM and login oversight, all that, it was a game reg check, an authentication software (like yu play, etc) and that was its main and only function. people hated it more than wanted it. At least steam was hands-off and meant more of a technical distribution and patching engine, and NOT a nanny engine to make things worse.
In short, no, battle.net could NOT have been steam before steam. Those of us there remember it.
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Back then the excuse was “The internet is just a passing fad”
blizzard has made some of the dumbest moves ever in terms of providing infrastructure for community and making sure that people are incentivized to stay playing the game. Like, it’s IDIOTIC that in D2R the chat features are fucking awful.
I agree with them. I can’t stand the Steam model.
Just shows you why execs who don’t know their own product and don’t listen to the customer always make short-term decisions that have long-term effects.
Let’s just be happy they missed that boat. Steam is not perfect, but they are doing a splendid job and being a private company really helps.
Who the fuck cares? Fuck the Blizzard Execs. They’ve destroyed a creative powerhouse.
And record labels could have bought Napster and used it to sell music instead of letting a computer company steal all of the profits from their industry.
They’d have ran that shit into the fucking dirt.
You want something really interesting, imagine a world where [GameTap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameTap) became the model instead of Steam
I miss the days of CDs and activation keys
Every decision Blizzard has made in the last 10 years has been awful, so we should all be thankful we have Steam instead of these fuckers
sure, and i could have invested in crypo in 2008
Thank god for that
Having used battle.net a long long time ago along with signing up for steam relatively early (only way to get certain half-life updates), no it couldn’t have. Battle.net was a broken buggy mess and regardless of the options it may or may not have added to the “store”, the DRM and login oversight, all that, it was a game reg check, an authentication software (like yu play, etc) and that was its main and only function. people hated it more than wanted it. At least steam was hands-off and meant more of a technical distribution and patching engine, and NOT a nanny engine to make things worse.
In short, no, battle.net could NOT have been steam before steam. Those of us there remember it.
Dont you guys have phones?