• BigFig@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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

    • talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Brawler Yukon@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Why should it matter which launcher I use?

        This is answered in the OP article itself:

        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.

    • David From Space@orbiting.observer
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • Tau@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Has anyone done that?

      Bethesda when it deprecated it’s launcher