Will Doom:Dark Ages require BattleNet?

As the marketdroids ramp up the pre-release hype for "Doom: Dark Ages"
(a.k.a. "Doom 6") one new factoid that has been released is that the
game is being released on Battle.Net. Not exclusively, no, but there
is some manufactured excitement that this will be 'only the second
non-ActiBlizz game released on Battle.Net evah!!!!1!!!'

But all I'm wondering is: does this mean that --even if I buy the game
on Steam-- I'll still need a Battle.Net account? Because if so, I
think I can happily skip the opportunity. I've no desire to tie up
more of my games to yet-another platform.

It seems unlikely, of course. Not only did Bethesda just have a
disastrous time of it with their "Bethesda.net" platform crashing and
burning (it was, for a while, a requirement for games like "Doom 4",
"Rage 2" and "Wolfenstein New Blood" before being quietly
discontinued), but there's no mention of it in the 'requirements'
section if the "Doom Dark Ages" store page on Steam. Still, despite
numerous questions about the topic from users, MicroActiBethesdaBlizz
have remained rather silent on the issue. Possibly it's still being
debated internally; who knows?

Still, unlike previous Doom titles, "Dark Ages" doesn't seem to be
garnering the same amount of excitement from users, so its probably in
ActiMicroBethBlizzard to either keep this requirement under wraps (if
a Battle.Net is going to be needed) or make it clear that it's not.
Their continued silence isn't helping them.

Meh. I'm only interested in "Doom 6" for its lore anyway... which says
a lot about how far the series has strayed from its origins.