prob not going to happen for a long time. Microsoft has its own digital distribution platform like steam and PSN, they keep popular titles to their own platforms to keep players coming back to it and to not have to pay steams sales tax.

Simply put they will release Halo Wars 2 to steam only after Halo Wars 3 is hugely successful and limited to their own platform.

steam just gets handouts to prop up Microsofts player numbers. E.G. the master chief collection

a lot of players really could care less what platform they play on.

but steam has a successful cult they have built and simple truth is it has god tier amounts of players that most of the others combined simply cannot match. if you want access to those tens of millions of of players you gotta cough up the 30% sales tax to sell on their platform.

the only reason HW and the MCC is on steam is for that sole reason alone. Even epic comes crawling to steam.

I am a consumer so I am aware of the Valve taxes for Steam games. The fact that HW2 is not on PC but we have HW:DE on PC tells me something. Even with the taxes, if you are a Halo fan and RTS fan you would WANT HW2 on the PC, preferebly a remaster like HW:DE to have something more to play. HW:DE community is not dead. Even with the taxes, the franchise still makes tons of money, even if it is 343i doing it again. It would certainly also be a good seg way for "spoilers", Halo Infinite imo.

You can use the xbox store app on pc to play on pc- considering ive done exactly that (:

Originally posted by UbiScoop:

You can use the xbox store app on pc to play on pc- considering ive done exactly that (:

How much does it cost to play on PC?

HW2 is ass anyways, really saving some money here

I would still like to try it myself

You can play it via the Xbox app on your desktop.

How much does it cost there?

Originally posted by ModerNertum:

How much does it cost there?

$39.99 for base game, $59.99 for complete edition

That’s expensive 🤔

Originally posted by ModerNertum:

That’s expensive 🤔

get it on sale?
if there ever is one, i don't remember

Probably about closest will ever see to Halo Wars 2 appearing on steam.
https://steamdb.info/depot/636550/
It is clear they did consider it at one point but must have went "nah"

You all forget that putting HW2 on steam would require 343i to do a thing one time, and that's more work than 343i is capable of.
I know they rebranded, but it's the same people.

HW2 is on PC gamepass on the xbox app for PC. Just do a month of PC gamepass and play it for whatever the cost of one month is.

I would rather prefer if it was on Steam as well or a port was made like the original Halo Wars got (an improved remastered port)-