ZZZ is now available on Steam. Existing players can link their accounts so that progress is preserved. This is big news for me mainly because my current circumstances make Steam cards way easier to pay for game stuff with than pretty much anything else. YMM, of course, vary, and there doesn't really seem to be any other pressing reason to switch from the HoYoPlay app to Steam unless you're just a big-time library completist.

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From what I've seen it still uses the Hoyoplay launcher, so I think the Steam integration is basically just being able to accept steambux instead of requiring you to give your CC deets to Hoyo directly.

Which, I mean, that's a good thing! I'm just old-man-grumbly about ever fukkin game insisting on its own launcher so they can shove ads at you, grumble grumble grr etc.

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>Which, I mean, that's a good thing! I'm just old-man-grumbly about
>ever fukkin game insisting on its own launcher so they can shove ads
>at you, grumble grumble grr etc.

I don't think I've ever noticed any ads in HoYoPlay, apart from the fact that the splash screen is arguably an ad for the game itself.

Anyway, yes, the Steam version does call up that splash, but you no longer need to maintain an independent HYP instance on your system--unless you need it to aggregate more than one of the publisher's games, I suppose. I only play ZZZ, so I don't have that particular use case to contend with.

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