Blizzard Has No Plans To Turn Battle.net Into A Steam Competitor

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

"We have our audience" Blizzard says it's not trying to do "the Steam or Epic Game Store thing" with Battle.net

Last Updated on September 15, 2026 Battle.net has been expanding beyond Blizzard’s own games, but the company says it has no plans to turn the platform into a direct competitor to Steam or the Epic Games Store, despite rumors of plans for a much bigger platform. Instead of filling the storefront with thousands of releases, ...

Blizzard say Battle.net isn't looking to fight Steam and Epic for supermassive storefront supremacy, despite recently nabbing The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077

No siree. We are not trying to fight those big bosses. It's arguably a bit of a weird thing for a publisher with Diablo and World of Warcraft in their arsenal to say, but that's the stance Blizzard are sticking to with their storefront Battle.net, even though it now boasts two big CD Projekt Red RPGs. Instead of an unknowably girthy hoard of games, the publishers say Battle.net's still designed to feel like a handpicked basket of things to play.

Blizzard isn't "trying to do the Steam or Epic Games Store thing" by putting Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 Remastered on Battle.net, says exec

CD Projekt Red's RPGs don't mean there's a substantial change happening