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they've traditionally kept their games on their own platform, Battle.net. though there was a brief period where they threw their older titles on GOG.A “selection” of Blizzard Entertainment games are coming to Steam, starting with the free-to-play team-based hero shooter Overwatch 2 on August 10, the developer announced.
“Battle.net is the home of all our PC players, and over the years, we’ve evolved our platform to support updated technologies, capabilities, and our communities’ expectations,” Blizzard Entertainment said in a blog post. “But as we’ve evolved, the industry has evolved too—gaming is no longer just for specific communities as it was when Battle.net launched over two decades ago, gaming is for everyone—and though we remain committed to continually investing in and supporting Battle.net, we want to break down the barriers to make it easier for players everywhere to find and enjoy our games.”
the most likely reasoning is tied to their impending acquistion by Microsoft, though it should also be noted that Call of Duty's attempt at moving to battle.net was reportedly disastrous.
currently, the only other major developers not actively adding their games to Steam are Riot Games and Mojang. though they're both odd cases where the spin-off titles are on Steam, but not the main games they're based off of (League of Legends was briefly on Steam for a few years, but it was eventually delisted.)"Before 2018, Activision sold digital versions of PC Call of Duty titles on Valve's successful Steam platform. In 2018, Activision decided to take the game off of Steam and make it exclusively available on Battle.net—largely in an effort to attract users to, and grow, Activision's own platform. Battle.net's monthly active users ('MAUs') remained relatively flat during the period when it had exclusive access to digital sales of Call of Duty on PC, from 2018 through 2022."