

We can gnash our teeth about this decision, but I think ultimately it comes down to financial reasons. This means that those of us who have been around for a while are going to miss out on the convenience of being able to launch the game through what has effectively become the PC Gaming storefront. The frustrations however lay with the fact that if you are already a Guild Wars 2 player with an existing account, you cannot link it in any way to steam. Guild Wars 2 being available through Steam is a universally good thing, because it lowers the barrier to entry into this game.

Guild Wars 2 is launching on Steam on August 23rd, and this announcement has been met with quite a bit of frustration on my social timelines. Yesterday we finally got a release date for something that has been in the works for a while.
