Being tied to Blizzard's Battle.net is a neat middle finger for PC buyers.

Tying any game to any platform is a middle finger for gamers.

Well, I have nothing else to watch today, mind as well watch this.

Exactly steam or origin to me is no different.

True, but a good majority of PC gamers use Steam, while I didn't even know Battle.net even existed up to today. Better than nothing I guess.

That's just you. In truth Battle.net was a very popular multiplayer service way before Steam even existed. It makes sense for Activision to put their games exclusively on Battle.net. Time to move CoD there too.

They are both clients to me, but both of them serve a different set of customers as well as different services (Origin has zero modding community for example and doesn't want one).

was anyone else bothered by the weird pauses during the presentation that acted as an implied "please clap" ?

I think it's awesome when the crowd organically responds with cheering when they like something, but this felt forced at several points

and when is the last time you played it?

Yeah I think i noticed that too, specially near the matchmaking speech, like it's some sort of revolutionary concept

That being said, this gif needs to be edited with a bungie logo