It's 2026, how are you playing Battle.net games these days?

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨EveningPancakes@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

Welcome to 2026! The age old question remains; how are you running Battle.net on Steam OS in Steam Deck?

I had an itch to try out the new class in D2. So I fired up the old Battle.net install that I previously had running through Lutris when D4’s expansion came out. It’s been a while, and something obviously changed with the Battle net launcher that it was broken in Lutris. I had to uninstall and reinstall numerous times through Lutris until it finally took properly.

Curious if lately others are simply installing it and running via Proton as a non-steam game that I can sidestep the Lutris process?

I saw there was NonSteamLaunchers via Decky Loader, but I couldn’t figure out how to get it installed and it wasn’t showing up in the plugin store when I searched for it. It was late so I didn’t have enough time to dig further there. The Bible quotes also seemed weird in the git, but whatever, if it works I’d be willing to try.

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Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Not really helpful, but D4, D2R and Overwatch are on Steam. The RTSs (SC, SC2, WC3) I wouldn’t want to play on a handheld anyway.

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cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m running Lutris on desktop and Steam Deck to play WoW. Works fine. Just remember it was a bit irritating to set up the first time with trying to get the Battle.net installer to run properly

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voytrekk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m on desktop, but Heroic and Faugus have worked the best for me. I always had some sort of troubles when using Lutris and Bottles.

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Galapagon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I just got the new version on steam instead

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- EveningPancakes@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I hear ya, I was hoping to avoid double dipping…
  
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  - Galapagon@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    I know where you’re coming from but the price difference was $15 to just have it on steam so I said F it. I’m not using battle net otherwise ATM anyway
    
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krathalan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I used bottles for a year or two and just switched to Faugus Launcher. Seems a lot more reliable at opening/closing Battle.net for whatever reason.

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