Good news if you plan to dive into Diablo 4 with the Steam release coming on October 17th, as it has been Steam Deck Verified. There's some bad news if you already purchased it on Battle.net though.
What made any of you think they’d give you a free steam key? Has anyone done that? Do you go to the epic store and say hey I already own this in steam give it to me for free
Because I bought the game? (Well I suppose it’s really renting it now)
Why should it matter which launcher I use? It says I need a battle.net account so I don’t see why it wouldn’t just work since they know I already bought it.
Why don’t some publishers do this? The reasoning is pretty simple really: Valve take a cut of all sales on Steam, including DLC and micro-transactions. So if you purchased directly before, publishers will want to keep you there so any extras you purchase don’t get a cut eaten by Valve.
GOG Connect did it until January of this year. You could sync certain games from your GOG library and get a Steam Key for it. It wasn’t popular with publishers I’m assuming, because Capitalism; the number of titles you could do it to had dwindled to almost nothing, but it’s happened.
What made any of you think they’d give you a free steam key? Has anyone done that? Do you go to the epic store and say hey I already own this in steam give it to me for free
Because I bought the game? (Well I suppose it’s really renting it now)
Why should it matter which launcher I use? It says I need a battle.net account so I don’t see why it wouldn’t just work since they know I already bought it.
This is answered in the OP article itself:
GOG Connect did it until January of this year. You could sync certain games from your GOG library and get a Steam Key for it. It wasn’t popular with publishers I’m assuming, because Capitalism; the number of titles you could do it to had dwindled to almost nothing, but it’s happened.
Ioi did that for hitman I believe
Bethesda when it deprecated it’s launcher
Wube did a while ago.