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Bogdan

Oct 10, 2022 @ 10:28pm

Runs better on Battle.net or Steam?

I heard that the game runs better on battle.net compared to steam.
The steam client uses more cpu/ram, in the background.
Battle.net client is much less intensive compared to steam.
I'm still deciding if I should pre order on battle.net or steam?
What does everyone else think?

Last edited by Bogdan; Oct 11, 2022 @ 8:18am

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VaseOG

Oct 10, 2022 @ 10:36pm

ran smooth for me on steam during the beta

76561198313922774 has Call of Duty®

Oct 10, 2022 @ 10:45pm

You use battle.net cuz you're afraid of teeny weeny cpu/ram usage. I use steam to track my gameplay time. We are not the same.

djcarey

Oct 10, 2022 @ 10:45pm

Steam!!

brimstone

Oct 10, 2022 @ 11:11pm

i played beta on both bnet and steam

run the same

Last edited by brimstone; Oct 10, 2022 @ 11:11pm

Leah

Oct 10, 2022 @ 11:35pm

Close your library window and friends list otherwise Steam eats up a lot of extra performance due to the poorly optimized new friends list and library, and if you have the overlay enabled make sure you close your friends list on game start-up.

SimpleJack has Call of Duty®

Oct 10, 2022 @ 11:40pm

well, for me it was cheaper on battlenet than on steam, so i got it there...and I have some other things in battlenet anyway so, why not keep it there

Leah

Oct 11, 2022 @ 12:05am

Originally posted by Francoa:
well, for me it was cheaper on battlenet than on steam, so i got it there...and I have some other things in battlenet anyway so, why not keep it there

Account security issues.

Steam, unlike other platforms takes a lot of precautionary measures for Account security, as it's a bit of a common issue, and I'm not talking about the e-mail verification.

Not running 2FA puts a 2 week safety-net on any trade you try to make, just so you have time to react if your account was compromised, if any shady comments are made support will lock your account services like spending money or trading items until you can prove it is you.

Support staff actually exist on Steam where on Battlenet they're almost all automated responses, and on Activision's side you've got support clearly offloaded to an external company, where you're going to be sitting in a usually hour long minimum queue, during certain times of the day, and on certain days of the week, because they only take support options in live-chat form and not tickets just to hope to god you give up on getting what you paid for.

And among other things just general launcher clunkiness, while Steam has had worse performance with their chat and library UI updates, the usability of them is fine, but they just eat up background performance if left open.

Battlenet has a poorly laid out UI particularly after the UI redesign that for the first year failed to load things half the time, is used primarily to sling advertisements for their different products at you, while their settings menus continue to be confusing to sort through, social features are clunky and underdeveloped outside of WoW integration, and their shop interface is awful, advertising MTX as much as their games, having a terrible search function, and not having any user review/rating features.