Blizzard is going to release some of its games on Steam, starting with Overwatch 2. I didn't see that coming at all. Blizzard is a founder of modern PC gaming, with a legacy that goes back further than Valve's, and Battle.net existed well before Steam did. Blizzard has never put a game on Steam, and it never seemed like it needed to.
Well, things have changed. When we spoke to ex-Blizzard employees about the 2021 sexism and harassment lawsuit, they said they started to feel Blizzard's reputation collapsing in 2018. Five years later, its old leaders are gone and it's on the verge of becoming a Microsoft company. For better or worse, it isn't the Blizzard it used to be.
