Good news if you plan to dive into Diablo 4 with the Steam release coming on October 17th, as it has been Steam Deck Verified. There's some bad news if you already purchased it on Battle.net though.
For Diablo 4 being Steam Deck Verified, this means everything should just work out of the box directly from Steam and Valve’s Diablo 4 verification was done on Proton Experimental.
It already worked pretty great on Steam Deck anyway, as I showcased previously.
Well, if you were hoping to simply transfer your Battle.net purchase over to Steam, it’s a solid nope.
Even though Steam keys cost developers / publishers nothing, Blizzard aren’t going to provide you with one.
As mentioned on X (formerly Twitter) by Adam Fletcher, the Global Community Development Director on Diablo, in reply to a user asking about having to buy it again Fletcher replied: "Yes.
The reasoning is pretty simple really: Valve take a cut of all sales on Steam, including DLC and micro-transactions.
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For Diablo 4 being Steam Deck Verified, this means everything should just work out of the box directly from Steam and Valve’s Diablo 4 verification was done on Proton Experimental.
It already worked pretty great on Steam Deck anyway, as I showcased previously.
Well, if you were hoping to simply transfer your Battle.net purchase over to Steam, it’s a solid nope.
Even though Steam keys cost developers / publishers nothing, Blizzard aren’t going to provide you with one.
As mentioned on X (formerly Twitter) by Adam Fletcher, the Global Community Development Director on Diablo, in reply to a user asking about having to buy it again Fletcher replied: "Yes.
The reasoning is pretty simple really: Valve take a cut of all sales on Steam, including DLC and micro-transactions.
The original article contains 208 words, the summary contains 128 words. Saved 38%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!