If anything, I wouldn't be surprised if MS wants to "Sunset" battle.net eventually. I think a lot of companies are figuring out that maintaining their own launcher for that extra "30%" might not be as worth it as they initially thought. Hoarding all that data, paying for datacenters around the world, cloud saves, support tickets, managing refunds, charge backs, managing voice chats and group chats etc. Can really start to add up. And it's not like they can advertise on Steam which has a growing number of userbase and now that PC handles are becoming a thing with Steam Deck being at the forefront, it's getting harder to justify not being on Steam.
Plus if the game sells more than $10 million, Valve takes 25% of the revenue and if the game sells more than $50 million, Valve takes 20% which are easy to do with AAA games. And I am sure Valve has a lot of back handed deals with these big publishers as well.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
