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Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down

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Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down

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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 7 months ago

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The Steam competitor that never was.

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Can you imagine Battle.net beating Steam, then the primary online digital distribution platform ending up being owned by Activision?

I get the icks just thinking about it.

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