AHAHAHAHA STEAM BTFO

What is the point of this thread?

I mean it makes sense; Activision owns Blizzard, and Destiny is similar to a lot of Blizzard games, where it's a constant stream of content with a focus on raiding and shit like that.

>>377437754
Destiny 2 is a shit game anyway.

>no dedicated servers

if there wasn't a reason to completely disregard this turd already, now there is.

>>377437754

Well by proxy of the PC game "2" effect it'll still prolly be a good game.

>>377437754
Doesn't the Battlenet already feature Overwatch, which is a similar game?

>>377437861
To act like a child, it seems.

>>377437754
Does anyone find it really weird Battle.net is going to launch a non Blizzard game

What is Steam, anyway?

>>377438062
Ye but Overwatch is made by blizz.

>no dedicated servers

lol they're fucking retarded, its gonna turn into that other ubisoft game that didn't have dedicated servers either

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>This ends up working really well
>"Oh hey morhaime, I noticed Destiny goes really well with your Overwatch and our netOps admins get along great. We could, yk ow, if you wanted to...push the HQs together? I mean, just a thought! Here, sip this wine cooler. Think about it..."
>Blizzard name dissolved a month later in complete takeover

It's starting.

>>377437754
I can tell you one thing for sure.
Blizzard's customer service is miles better than valve's.

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>Consolefags/PCkeks are sad/happy respectively about losing/gaining Destiny

Why do any of you care? Destiny 1 was in beta for a year after release. The actual game cost $80 on top of your initial $60 and mostly consisted of features the game should have shipped with.

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>>377437754
What's the issue here? I have both a battle.net and steam. They're both free to install

>>377438441
>Ye but Overwatch is made by blizz.
And Destiny is made by Activision which owns Blizzard.

>>377439019
>Blizzard's customer service is miles better than valve's.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>377439229
not exactly owning, it was a fusion, not a simple buyout

>>377439262
Not even that guy, but Steam is known for their bad customer support, while blizzard has always done it pretty well. Also this news is only a good thing, Steam needs more competition

>>377439460
Steam responds to support tickets within a month, the fuck is the problem?

>>377439262
it genuinely is, friend of mine bought 5 packs in hearthstone with gold he had and the purchase never went through but the gold was still reducted. he got a reply from customer support within 3 hours and got 3 free packs as well as the 5 he bought.
valve can take weeks on a good day just to ask you something you already explained in your ticket

>>377437754

Aww, blizzard think they're relevant enough to compete with steam, isn't that cute.

>>377439262
Blizzard sets the bar for video games customer service. There's no argument.

My hateboner for Blizzard intensifies. At least I'm on /v/ among others with massive hateboners for Blizzard. Everything about them is trash REEEEE

>>377437754
peer2peer servers really kills it

>>377437754
I have Origin, Steam, and Battle.net running all the time.

Combined, they use less than 1% of the CPU.

>>377439528
blizz responds support tickets in 1h

Destiny 2 is a really stupid name

On certain levels it's worse than Final Fantasy [Insert Number]

>>377440647
At least it isn't Des2ny

>>377439528
Aside from the fact that it's over a hundred times slower than bnet?

>>377440647
>he doesn't understand that the number 2 comes after the number 1

>>377440442
they take up so much ram tho

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Destiny....

Oh look, a game with no fans will get no sales upon release and people will blame it on piracy and the flaws of releasing games on PC instead of the issue of releasing bullshit that no one wants on PC.

>>377440702
Don't give them ideas

>>377440901
400~ combined. That's fucking nothing. I had 16GB in 2012

>>377437754
OH NO! A FREE TO USE PLATFORM IS GOING TO BE USED INSTEAD OF THAT OTHER FREE TO USE PLATFORM!

meanwhile consolefags need to pay for their online shit.

we have it good when i think about it

>>377437754
Why wouldn't they put it only on Blizzard when they are heavily invested and basically merged/bought it?

>Renamed to Blizzard's App recently
>proceeds to add a nonblizz game to it
Why ditch the bnet naming scheme?

>>377439528
Wow a month? Damn. Love going through 20 automated messages before hand!

>>377439262
A classic example of talking without knowing

>>377437754
Feel free to post the PC release date (with source)

>>377437754
Thank god it's sjw numale shit

>>377441662
Bnet was named in an era when it was nothing more than an optional networking component for their games

Once it became DRM and all of their games require it to run, it's a lot more than Bnet now. It's their entire platform

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>Blizzard garbage for the hamburger people
I don't really feel like missing out if this shit doesn't fill my nostrils while logging in to steam desu

>>377442073
Bnet was still a better name.

>>377442061
how..? because there are black and white people in the game's universe?

>/v/ constantly shits on steam
>online game goes to battlenet which means better online service and anti cheat
>/v/ suddenly praises steam
hmmm

They should port the first Destiny too.

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>paying fat gaben 30% for each sale
> still no half life 3 or left4dead 3 even with all the jew money crates and skins

>>377442238
>battlenet better than steam
hmmm

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So they willingly choose the platform which it will sell less on? Is it because it's cheaper? Also I thought Battle.net was just for Blizzard's games.

Also who gives a shit Destiny was mediocre at best

>>377442223
didnt you watch the stream yesterday?

anyone who knows games can see it's lowest common denominator redditor tier dumbed down bullshit

bungie died years ago but this is really it. it's over.

>>377442446
>Is it because it's cheaper?
Yes? How is that even a question. They have their own platform, why give the steam jew his 30% cut.

>>377437889
>Activision owns Blizzard
No it does not.

Neither company owns the other, since both were bought by vivendi.
They then bought themselves free, which was mostly due to blizzards WoW billions, so blizzard is actually the senior partner, although rather unassuming. Activion does not make dosh like blizzard, especially since people are getting sick of CoD.

>>377442443
For online games yeah.

>>377437754
Wow a shit game on a shit program.
Color me surprised.

>>377442073
Again, why ditch the naming scheme when everybody knows what it is and sounds better than "You can get Destiny on Blizzard's App store"

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>>377437754
So will Destiny 2 be a complete game at launch or do we have to wait 2-3 years for them to release the finished product again?

Makes sense. Battle.net is full of shitty games, so what's another one?

>>377438835
how?
Blizzard has more money than activision by far.

>>377442739
It sounds like it will be "thanks for the beta testing, faggots" kind of deal.

>>377439262
Even Gabe admitted that if he could change one thing, it's how Steam Support functioned.

>>377442547
A couple of shitty mobas and a casualised fps yeah sure seems like a great service I don't think steam have any online games that can compete

>>377442534
>blizzard is actually the senior partner,
Show me on the shareholder portfolio where it states that.

>>377437754
So what if for some reason, let's just say in a year or two, Activision-Blizzard breaks up?

>>377442892
>DESTINY 2-STEAM VERSION COMING SOON! SPECIAL STEAM VERSION WITH ALL THE DLC

>>377443218
Stop being retarded

>>377442739
That guy is a murder suicide waiting to happen look at his he's already dead inside

>>377439262
this guy is baiting

the universe makes no sense if he isnt

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Does this mean CoD will start using battlenet too?

>>377443218
Dissolving of both companies unless the board and heavy majority of share holders agree. Legally it'd be a fucking mess.

>>377443442

literally all those photos are adopted kids

>>377437889

but actually it doesn't make sense because literally no other Activision games have ever been put on Battlenet and Destiny 2 isn't even developed by Activision

>>377437861
whats the point of 4chan? Do you ever just sit and think what the fuck am I doing. You could stop at any point and never come back and you essentially wouldnt miss anything, just have more freetime. Why the fuck do I keep coming back

>>377443818
You're addicted to information, same reason normalfags use facebook and whatever the popular phone apps are called now

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>>377439262

>>377438005
Source - My ass.

>>377439262
Valve customer service is ass, stop being a retarded fanboy. You're a fucking adult.

>>377438328

>what is Activision-Blizzard?

>>377444063
After that fact you fucking retard

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>no dedicated servers

>>377438112
Gabe, go home and fuck off.

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>>377437754
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>377444167
The fuck did you get photo of me from?

>Activision's distributing platform
How bad is it, guys? Is it really just an unobtrusive launcher, or Origin/UPlay tier?

>>377438835
>Activision takeover of Blizzard

the opposite is far more likely

the most probable outcome though is that Bungie is be absorbed by Blizzard and Acti-Blizz remains

maybe you don't understand that the company is a joint partnership, not an ownership

Blizzard is more profitable, more powerful, more respected, and just all around better than Activision. They would never willingly submit to them when they have all the cards

that's just bad business

>>377443818
>>377443876
>information

Its social interaction. Its not about information.

>>377443034
you just described steam

>>377443951
kys

Was going to buy this but not when it's using peer 2 peer. Which shop I have to launch it through is frankly irrelevant since they all suck.

I'm all for giving the middle finger to valve

>>377442446
>platform which it will sell less on
Battle net is insanely popular. There are millions of wow, overwatch and hearthstone players you know.

>>377442534
Activision is a much larger company than Blizzard, and WoW has been steadily dying for the past 5 years.

>but at its peak 7 years ago it had 15 million players!
You know how many people play Call of Duty alone? One installment of Call of Duty moves around 30 million copies.
30 > 15
in case you need help with math.

And this is only ONE Activision series. Not counting everything else they produce directly or sponsor.

There is no doubt Activision is bigger than Blizzard. Blizzard always was a smaller gaming company.

companies have pulled this shit before. It doesn't work.

>>377445097
You mean like when Blizzard did it and Diablo 3 was one of the best selling PC games ever?

>>377444450
It was bnet. Now called "Blizzard's App" and it's probably one of the better ones out there.
>voice
>stream to facebook
>chat
>friends
I just close it when I open up Hearthstone so it's good enough for me.

>"We have an interesting relationship with Blizzard, due to all the workings involved with the Activision side of things. Last year, when they released Overwatch, we saw just how well equipped they were for taking on millions of players with very little issue. Putting it plainly, they just have amazing networking and server setups. As we started looking at Destiny 2, we released that we needed that sort of expertise, which we simply don't have. Blizzard will be helping us handling our server setup for all platforms, and the easiest way for that to work is by placing the PC version of Destiny 2 on their own client. don't think anyone dislikes Steam here at Bungie, far from that. They just don't have the robust network in place to handle Destiny 2."

>Steam servers
>Can't handle Destiny
Right, okay. I totally believe that.

>>377444596
it's not real social interaction because it's entirely impersonal

>>377445234
What's there to handle? The fucking thing is peer to peer.
It's infurating to see them pretend that they're fucking trying.

>>377445234
Dota 2 servers are shit and what other games do Valve actually run themselves?

>>377444450
Not sure why you are putting origin and uplay together though.

Never had any problem playing games on Origin... fuck Ushit killing the Heroes franchise.

>>377445354

I'm going to fuck you in the ass for that, queer.

>>377445354
>shit
It does it's job and nobody complains about the servers. What people complain are the locations and who they're being matched up with.

Anyhow that I know of are Dota2, TF2, and CSGO 'competitive' matches are done through Valve's servers. I don't know of anything else.

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sniff me blizzcucks

>>377444596
not really social interaction for me, I lurk most of the time, Ive been coming here for 6 years, and would be surprised if I even reached 1000 posts. besides I have a personal life, the information thing makes more sense I guess, even though I doubt thats it. In a long time from now a more civilised society will look back at internet forums and shit do some crazy psychological discoveries I think

>>377445642
They are down constantly. You might think it's okay that the Dota 2 coordinator is offline every now and then with no warning, no information and no nothing, but that's just because you're so used to being poorly treated by Valve that you think it's how it's supposed to be.

>>377445354
>valve servers
>shit
You can't be this retarded, can you?

>>377440974
>piracy
wait what I thought destiny was basically an always online game for consoles? Is destiny 2 going to remove the always online part?

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>>377445791
The coordinator aren't the game servers.

the fuck is with this captcha

>>377446007
How is it different? Clearly Bungie feels they need a system that works all of the time instead of just most of the time. And you know what I sorta agree.

>>377445952
I was saying people will blame it on piracy regardless, not that it's possible to pirate. It's like blaming a car crash on Obama. People will find their pet cause to lump hate on.

>>377437754
I don't see a problem. Steam is garbage.

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>>377446007
from the thumbnail i thought it was a sweet pair of legs, when will google build an AI to recognize pornography? Thats a captcha i can get behind

>>377445772
i'd play a dating sim with her in it

>>377445791
hahahaha we have dota 2 and csgo what the fuck do you have hahaha? hearthstone and hots? LOL blizzard is shit hahahaha

>>377445095
Is this bait?

These 15 millions pay money every single month, most pay even more for additional services

Why do people want Destiny 2?

I played the first one, got all classes to 30, did the raids. It was mediocre.
No longevity.

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>>377437754
>blizzard paid for exclusivity to a shitty game

LOL

>>377446401
>they paid themselves
(You)

>I-it's okay when Valve does it

Every time.

>>377439154
We live in an age where there are fanboys loyal to drm

>>377446078
I won't deny that Bnet is always up (aside from new content launches) and Dota2 is occasionally down. However, I've never seen their matchmaking used anywhere else be down excluding steam maintenance

Good, about time Origin and whatever the fuck Blizz is doing caught up with Steam, sure some may argue that now insted of 1 shitty company we have 3 but if there's competition they will be forced to make their platforms better.

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>>377446401
>Activision-Blizzard puts their product on their service
I don't see what's funny

>>377446665
do you get paid to slurp blizzard?

>>377446768
/v/ is a Blizzard hate hivemind. Nothing really more than that.

>>377446789
Do you get paid to slurp Steam?

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>>377446401
>ford sells ford trucks at a ford dealership

This is a good thing

Hopefully more games will ditch Steam for Battle.net

>>377437754
It really pisses me off that all these companies are creating exclusivity where shouldn't be any, literally fucking up the consumers.
I'm perfectly fine with a competitive ecosystem, but not based in exclusivity. It will end turning PC into a virtual "console scenario".
So far these stores are growing bigger and there're more and more every day, Steam, GoG, Microsoft Store, Origin, Battle.net, Uplay, and the worst of all is that some of these stores have like 1 decent game and you still need to install the stupid client to play that single fucking game.

As for Destiny 2, don't really mind, peer 2 peer multiplayer, what were they thinking...

>>377437754
its not like i will ever touch that filth that is destiny

>>377446395
nobody wants it
everyone with a PC is laughing at it. I haven't seen one person say they're excited for it

They know they'd get hit by refunds for pushing out a half-baked/non-working MP experience a la OG Destiny

>>377446987
How is this free software that anyone can download and install exclusivity? I don't think you know what that word means.

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I have Origin, Uplay, Steam, GOG, and Battle.net installed, no problem since ram isn't in issue and Ryzen fucks intel in the ass

>>377437952
Pretty much this. Destiny 2 looks as garbage as the first one. I don't give a fuck about this game so I don't care where they decide to launch it.

Whatever you raging autists are being pissed about, the end of the story is that we players only win with this. Blizzard's infrastructure is top-notch, and everybody already has at least 1 Blizzard game they play, so chances are the app is open besides Steam anyway.

>>377444596
some people only lurk though, they don't even crave (You)s

>>377447092
Are you retarded? Anon knows exactly what he means.
He said he's fine with companies competing with each other by trying to provide a better service, maybe a feature here, better friend systems there, better customer support, but not with "our platform has X game so download it"
that's exclusivity, tardwrangler

>>377447238
lol
(You)

>>377447451
thanks :^)

>>377446921
fpbp

>>377447315
Exclusivity - the practice of excluding or not admitting other things.

Everycan can download Steam and everyone can download BattleNet. This is not exclusivity.

>P2P matchmaking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntxKRj9DRnc

>wanting to download multiple clients
I fucking hate /v/

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I hope Bungie learned from their mistakes with the first Destiny, i.e. unfinished product with paid expansions filling the gaps. Wishful thinking though.

I've already got it installed, and don't really plan on getting Destiny 2 anyway. Don't really see the issue, it's not like they're putting it on Origin or uPlay.

Actually Activision and Blizzard are good example how 2 companies can work together well.

The only company that can compete with them is the Chinese giant Tencent.

If everything goes well then 2017 Activision Blizzard will surpass Tencent and become the biggest gaming company on the planet.

>>377447898
Destiny 2 is basically just another expansion, anon.

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>>377447664

>>377439262

As much as I love to shit on Blizzard I have never in over 15 years had a problem with their customer service. It's literally the only thing they do right.

>>377437754
*BOOM*
BIG REVEAL

>>377438062
They're both shit, yes

Ok I'll bite.

What the fuck is a "Destiny 2" ?

>>377443951
>Battle net
>Dedicated servers
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Something new finally. Steam its a fucking bloatware and the interface stink like my scrotum

But I don't want Destiny characters in my HOTS !

>>377448310
FPS MMO about buying DLCs.

>>377448328
All of the games on battle net use dedicated servers.

>>377445095
>I'm underage and know jack shit about finance

>>377439262
I once bought Heart of the Swarm CE for full price and it went on sale the next day. Asked for a refund, and while they couldn't give it to me, instead gave me WoW time for the difference in price.

Just sayin.

>>377448328
Are you dumb?

>>377448416
Sorry m8, enjoy it. Gotta bump up the sales somehow and for some reason blizzdrones will gladly buy a game they'll never play for a free hero skin, cardback, icon, and pet.

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>>377437754
>3 Borderlands games on Steam
>not a squeak
>Bnet gets a console Borderlands knock-off
>"STEAM BTFO"

>>377444316
your mother's house

That's good. Steam is a bloated mess and it takes about an hour to load/download an update. Battlenet is actually fast and downloads take just a few minutes.

>>377448794
It's really nothing like Borderlands

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>>377443729
Blizz and Activision are friends
They probably get better profits if they sell it off from Blizz's site and use their client and dont have to worry about Steams 40% or w/e their cut is. Plus they can do stupid cross-promotions with current games that Blizz has like Overwatch and HoTS all from within the same client. Makes complete business sense due to their relationship

>>377448794
>borderlands without shitty memes

I'll take it.

>>377448976
>Borderlands with shitty memes
>Borderlands with SJW writing
Pick your poison.

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>>377437754

Considering the latest news about Steam I think Bungie made the right decision.

>>377449071
>Borderlands with shitty memes
>Borderlands with SJW writing
That's Borderlands 2, friendo.

>>377448803
You cheeky mother fucker, you're the one that didn't pay after getting pegged last week. You got her to piss on you then ram a 12; dildo up,,, YO OWE ME MONEY

>>377448858
Both are equally fast for me, except Battlenet client tanks fps in Blizzard's own games for some reason, if I keep it running in the background (downloads disabled). I have to alt-tab and close the launcher after I boot a game.

>>377449071
That's just Borderlands.

I literally did not need anymore reason not to buy this warframe clone.

>>377437754
>its another shill screen cap thread

>>377437754
>OP actually thinking anyone is gonna miss Destiny's sequel after the shitshow of the first one.

>>377447983
fuck off bobby we care about games not about money

>Destiny won't on Pro a 60fps because of CPU limitations

is this bullshit?

>>377440436
Hello newfriend.

>>377449505
Most likely. Doom could do it, Battlefield could do it, Call of Duty could do it, each way more graphically intensive and more fast-paced.

>>377440436
Na fuck that they fixed d3

>>377442739
It's already going to launch with an entire raid included

>>377443729

>Activision owns company who uses the software
>They plan to use said software so they dont have to pay Valve
>WOW MAKES NO SENSE LMAO

Lol

>>377447664
It's not really about money but the annoyment involved.
If you save money it's not hard to buy all three major consoles. You might not because:

- You need to buy peripherals for each console separately
- You need separate online accounts for each console
- Your friend list is not shared between consoles, nor is your shopping cart
- Multiplayer servers are not shared between consoles
- You need to plug in all the three consoles at once or else plug in the console whenever you want to play

And all that just to play exclusives.
I'm ok with having to run a single client, i would prefer to not but i understand it. Now having to setup 4 or 5 clients and having all your data separated is an nuisance.

>>377437754
Wow an ActivisionBlizzard game running on an ActivisionBlizzard service. SHOCKING

>>377446345
not only that
diablo 3 (sold incredibly well despite being a pretty mediocre game)
hearthstone
overwatch
all of these are fucking huge
overwatch alone reported over 25mill players

>>377439262
ActiBlizzard is pure dog shit, but the customer service is top-notch.

>>377442073
>It's their entire platform
Yeah, and just call it Battle.net.
Steam is a whole platform and it's not called the Valve App.

>>377442547
Only if you live in the US. There isn't a single Blizzard game that doesn't have awful EU servers.

How is Steam BTFO? People on PC don't care about console shooters, watch this game don't have half the playerbase of CS GO.

Good, Steam needs competition, it will make them get better.

Haha, holy shit this game does use peer2peer matchmaking. No one's going to play this shit on PC. Shame because Valve is 200% reactionary when it comes to making changes.

>>377441662
>app
I hate it

>its another /v/ hates competition thread

>>377452324
I hate it too. Everything about it isn't catchy and a shitty ploy to get people to say blizzard's name more often.