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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 9 months ago

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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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 9 months ago
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The Steam competitor that never was.
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    9 months ago

    I remember reading a very long (but fascinating) 11 part series of posts a couple of years ago on reddit about scummy stupid Blizzard. Here it is, if anyone still cares.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/riq4fq/games_world_of_warcraft_part_1_beta_and_vanilla/

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