Call of Duty received’t be coming to Battle.web – until it does

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“Our focus in terms of supporting non-Blizzard games is solely around Destiny 2” reads the official statement. It appears reasonably clear, till you get to the very subsequent sentence, which says “aside from potentially evaluating needs or opportunities for future Activision games, we don’t have any short- or long-term plans to support third-party games with Battle.net.”

So they’ll solely be supporting Destiny 2 … until Activision ask good / pay them / they take a liking to one thing. Which, effectively, I kind’ve would have assumed anyway.

Once we see how Destiny 2 is applied into the Battle.web interface we’ll know extra. If it’s proper alongside all of the Blizzard video games, you recognize it truly is deliberate as a one-off. If it arrives in its personal tab of non-Blizzard titles, that’s a little bit completely different, and is planning for future enlargement.

Blizzard’s clarification goes like this: “It’s important to us to maintain our quality standards for any experience or service we’re putting in front of our players, which represents a big investment of time and effort on our part, so this is not something we’re jumping into lightly.”

To translate: you’re positively not getting an indie $100 buy-in to be on Battle.web ala Steam any time quickly. However, the door is large open for Activision – and that features much more than Call of Duty – to ask for something to be on there. Once the methods are in place, it additionally will get a hell of rather a lot simpler.