Hearthstone Coming to Steam: New Information

Blizzard has made strides to put Overwatch and Diablo 4 on Valve Steam platform and now new information has surfaced that they are eying to bring Hearthstone to Steam as well.

This all makes sense given their strategy as of late, but like anything with Blizzard, this could all change over the next year as they make their internal changes with the CEO and Microsoft acquisition.

As reported on Reddit:

New Variables in the System

Hearthstone recently shipped with a new variable in their strings and some basic data mining has shown a usage of Steam Account linking

GLOBAL_ERROR_STEAM_ACCOUNT_LINKING
We could not link your Steam account to BattleNet account. Restart Steam client and try again.

According to outof.games – several other lines of code are appearing in the Hearthstone codebase now. It’s all around finding Steam user info and purchases.

public void RequestSteamUserInfo()
{
    m_connectApi.RequestSteamUserInfo();
}

public SteamPurchaseResponse GetSteamPurchaseResponse()
{
    return m_connectApi.GetSteamPurcahseResponse();
}

Good data mining and well-written code can bring us closer to Steam. While it is already possible to play on Steamdeck, a native integration with the platform would be even better. It would enable more global users to play on the platform, as many people are already using Steam.