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Battle.net is required to play Diablo IV on PC Game Pass

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This Thursday, Microsoft will be fulfilling one of its key promises from when it acquired Activision-Blizzard by bringing Diablo IV to Game Pass. It looks like it'll have an extra, unexpected wrinkle, however: PC Game Pass players will be required to install Activision-Blizzard's installer, Battle.net. They'll also be required to have a Battle.net account and connect it to their Microsoft account before they can play.

Ahead of the Thursday release, Microsoft released a short tutorial online to help guide users through the process, complete with a Diablo IV-style graphic that has every step explained in great detail.

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While it's perhaps not surprising that the battle.net launcher is still needed for Activision-Blizzard games, it is still a little frustrating. Now that Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard are one company, it seems even more cumbersome to need two separate accounts and two separate launchers to access their games.

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Well, probably they were unable to merge battle.net into gamepass.

I assume they'll make do with it eventually.
 
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Kioku said:
Just remember kids, some of you were convinced that more launchers was good for competition and the end user.

Yup, this is only good news. /s
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Something something freer the market something something. I am honestly shocked anyone would be cool with going through launcher chains to play a game
 
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The Catboy said:
Something something freer the market something something. I am honestly shocked anyone would be cool with going through launcher chains to play a game
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The weird logic always bothered me, but hey.. at least we have "choices"... Whatever that means.
 
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xdarkx said:
Since barely anyone in this thread mention this...
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such a sad state consumer rights are in. company does illegal thing, knowing even if they're sued, it will only be a blip and quickly forgotten. and then they'll continue to do it. I don't really have much hope for things to get better. and it's things like this that make me perfectly fine with pirating.

But given all that, I wonder what their rationale is. Perhaps to save money and just not figure out how to incorporate the two into one? cheaper to just have the separate systems?
 
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osaka35 said:
But given all that, I wonder what their rationale is. Perhaps to save money and just not figure out how to incorporate the two into one? cheaper to just have the separate systems?
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My guess is it may take a lot of money, time and effort to merge the two systems, and it's a lot cheaper with this current set up. In other words, to maximize profit since Microsoft already spent billions of dollars with this acquisition.
 
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