D2R and Steam?

Florian_G wrote: 1 day ago

It appers to be available only the Infernal Edition (full game + DLC) and not only the Reign of the Warlock DLC.
This means we have to buy again the full game (39.99 E) and not only the DLC (24.99 E) to be able to play on Steam?

Could it be possible to aquire it from Battlenet shop but open it with Steam client? I like the Steam statistics and I also have others games there.

Who knows, bro, who knows. I just created a new account and linked it to Steam so I would have an extra copy for multiboxing.

d2jsp wrote: 1 day ago

Florian_G wrote: 1 day ago

It appers to be available only the Infernal Edition (full game + DLC) and not only the Reign of the Warlock DLC.
This means we have to buy again the full game (39.99 E) and not only the DLC (24.99 E) to be able to play on Steam?

Could it be possible to aquire it from Battlenet shop but open it with Steam client? I like the Steam statistics and I also have others games there.

Who knows, bro, who knows. I just created a new account and linked it to Steam so I would have an extra copy for multiboxing.

This is exactly what I did but I kind of wish I had just linked it to my main account. Oh well.

Trade and lobby chats don't work in the Steam version. It's also impossible to change the region without a -flag.

It is also currently not possible to log into the game using an authorization token, bypassing clients.

Maybe @Shupershuff can come up with something.

I'm not familiar with how steam authentication works, I figured it would piggy back off Bnet but is that not the case?

Shupershuff wrote: 1 hour ago

I'm not familiar with how steam authentication works, I figured it would piggy back off Bnet but is that not the case?

Yes, the game still uses BattleNet, but it runs directly from Steam, bypassing the launcher.

If the game was not originally purchased on a BN account, but only on Steam, Blizzard asks you to repurchase it on your BN account.

So, even though you actually receive an authorization token through BattleNet, you can't log in to the game. But as soon as you launch D2R through Steam, authorization is successful.

Launching via a shortcut using email and password also doesn't work.

Steam interacts with BN somehow, but we need to trace the entire chain to connection and loading of characters.