Blizzard Has No Plans To Turn Battle.net Into A Steam Competitor
Even though The Witcher 3 Remastered and Cyberpunk 2077 are coming to Battle.net, Blizzard tells Polygon not to expect a flood of third-party games..
Even though The Witcher 3 Remastered and Cyberpunk 2077 are coming to Battle.net, Blizzard tells Polygon not to expect a flood of third-party games.
The short version
- You should expect this to kick off a large wave of third-party Battle.net launches, though, as Blizzard told Polygon it's still being very picky about what will come to the service in the future.
- Battle.net predates Steam, having launched in 1997 alongside the original Diablo as a platform for player chats and listings of multiplayer servers.
- Over time, it became the hub for buying Blizzard (and only Blizzard) games on PC.
What happened
Things stayed that way until Destiny 2 launched on the service in 2017 . In the years since, other Activision-published series like Call of Duty and Crash Bandicoot made their way to Battle.net as well.
Why it matters
Following Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda titles like Avowed, Sea of Thieves, The Outer Worlds 2 , and Doom: The Dark Ages also made their way to Battle.net.
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