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Black Ops 4 (PC) is available exclusively on Battle.net [Port by Beenox]
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I hope Valve has plans for when all major publishers drop them. First EA, now Activion...wouldn't be shocked if Take2 and Ubisoft follow at some point. Possibly Bethesda.
I feel like Valve is in a position somewhat similar to Netflix, bit instead of being proactive, they are sitting on their hands.
I feel like Valve is in a position somewhat similar to Netflix, bit instead of being proactive, they are sitting on their hands.
Exclusive wow mount for buying CoD and suddenly the sales are good again
COD1, 2 & especially MW were huge on PC, it's MW2 that forever soured PC gamers & COD never recovered on PC since, hell i still joke about "Not balanced for lean" among my friends.
I feel like there's a third option you're not catching on to here.
Don't you think every publisher is aware of that? Yet 90% of publishers prefer to release their games on Steam. It's not like EA and Activision are the first publishers to discover the idea. They are taking risks. Black Ops 4 could flop like ever before on PC for all we know. It's not like every game with Battle Royale will become a huge success.
Many of the biggest games in the world continue to not be on Steam. Not sure what the hub-bub's about.
Battle.net as a platform has a lot of advantages over Steam, so I'm nonplussed about it.
I suspect that retention on the B.net platform will be better than on Steam's as well due to built-in features.
Battle.net as a platform has a lot of advantages over Steam, so I'm nonplussed about it.
I suspect that retention on the B.net platform will be better than on Steam's as well due to built-in features.
I play every CoD on PC and there are always people to play with. I'm never waiting too long for a match. What are you people talking about CoD being dead on PC, lol. WW2 has a steady 6-7k active players every day. Sure it's not a big number, but it's enough to find games quite quickly.
It saves Activision money not having to share a cut with Valve and the Bnet Launcher is probably on 90% of PCs that have Steam anyway.
Makes sense for Activision to move all their games over to the Bnet Store.
Makes sense for Activision to move all their games over to the Bnet Store.
i'm fine with other clients but battlenet is pretty bad. i can leave steam running but have to tell overwatch to kill the battlenet whenever i boot it since otherwise it'll eat 20% of my cpu for no reason
You're totally missing the point there though. Overwatch is a blizzard game. Those games have cultish fans.
Guess I'm not sure what you are talking about Tec, I've never had an issue whispering another friend on bnet or partying up with anyone. I still utilize discord for all voice chat though
More like, exclusive Soldier 76 skin.
I love how they slowly keep adding games to the launcher without being able to hide any of them. Also, if I cared about blops 4, I'd be annoyed that my CoD "collection" isn't in one place.
yes i agree, i also play cod only on pc and never really had a hard time finding games even a year after release
more echo chamber bs on the forums
I know like ubisoft. But we dont know if they loosing money long term for doing so.
Games like Crash Bandicoot need Steam because of marketing. People don't open B.net to play these titles.
Just because you're on BNet doesn't mean you get the Blizzard fanbase, how is Destiny 2 again?
Much like Destiny 2, a pass from me. Maybe they wouldn't worry so much about that 30% if they actually priced their games reasonably during a sale. No one wants to pay $30 for Black Ops II - on sale - in 2018. Come on now. But yeah, doesn't make much sense to me. Most PC storefront platforms are horrendous, but I think Battle.net is second-best... but it's a distant second behind Steam. I'm sure Blizzard stuff does just fine - no doubt it does. I don't see how Destiny and Call of Duty benefit from a move like this.
Aren't almost all players in one mode though...deathmatch
I've never seen a Steam only stance. Why would anyone have an issue with a game being available in more than one place? That is definitely a rather console-like mindset of "exclusives". A lot of people don't like something not being on Steam, and there are plenty of reasons why that might be, just as someone might complain of something not being on Battlenet, GOG, Humble or any other number of services.
Yep, DOA.
Like Diablo 3, World of Warcraft, Overwatch and Destiny 2. All clear failures.
Well if you want to play you need to both have the same region selected which will change the friends list region if you don't "belong" in that region and add each other all over again and as soon as they swap back to another region they just vanish again.
It made playing Destiny 2 terrible as you simply couldn't just "invite" them unless they rebooted and you had them on the right regions friend list, and if they had someone else with them both of them or you had to swap.
It's such a weird thing but it really kills the flow...
you have me there, i only play death match or domination, the other modes do lack population
I can see both Ubi & Beth doing exactly that. But with all the indies & now Japanese games pouring in, Valve will be fine even if Western publishers pull out in the future.
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Well that's a shame but i guess they cant force the steam warrior to use battlenet for ''smaller' ' games.
Destiny 2 was its own set of problem. Not if (it's a big IF though) the game is good.
If there was a Ghost skin for 76, im pretty sure a lot of people would buy BO4 on PC just for that & never play it.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm talking about when people talk about overwatch in the same way as pc cod
Completely different games. CoD on PC haven't seen the same success.
there goes my hopes of CoD ever been Play Anywhere with cross play.
Hopefully, someday they will add crossplay
Hopefully, someday they will add crossplay
More of a reason to keep Activision's shitty underdeveloped games out of BNet in the first place.
They made a few Spiderman games (including the actually good Shattered Dimensions) and ported BO3 to PS3/360. They've also been doing PC ports for Activision games since 2003.