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		predictabl3 on July 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, startin... OW2 can already run without Battle.net running, but launching it through Battle.net takes care of auth for you. Presumably they will modify the Steam OW2 client to include the Steam lib and handle auth via Steam. I think it's actually reasonable to have hope that Steam can launch into OW2 without B.net.

pests on July 20, 2023 [–]

I'm sure they will just add steam account linking to battle.net and treat it like any other platform.

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