: Yeah, I understand the console versions not being able to crossplay. and
: between One and PC, but it's just silly that the two PC store versions
: can't play together. And it sucks because you're essentially being
: punished for being an early adopter of the Deluxe HW2 because most of the
: playerbase will be on Steam.

: I'd REALLY like to have more than Steam being a store out there, so I don't
: really care much about where the game is bought from - as long as it works
: - but if you bought Halo Wars 2 Deluxe to get the HW1DE, you have to rebuy
: HW1 now to play with both bases.

: If they want to bootstrap the Windows Store they REALLY need to have no
: downside to buying anything on it.

Seems like they are testing the waters to me.

I would not be surprised to see future Halo titles MAYBE one day appear on steam based on the success of this title. It's a good one to test because it's "not a Halo" Halo game and is suited well for PC as it in an RTS.

Here's to hoping.