MMGN.com writes: EA have just announced that Battlefield 3, arguably the biggest game of 2011 is not going to be available on the ever popular Steam platform. It comes as no surprise considering EA have recently launched their own digital distribution platform, however could this be the ignition that causes all out war?
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It's simple really, Valve is not a publicly traded company...EA is. That means Valve can do whatever they want in terms of pricing, EA has to answer to the shareholders. Valve can crush EA in sales every day of the week. EA has a long way to go and they are burning their bridges everyday.
It doesn't matter if EA Origin has Battlefield 3 as Steam will have the biggest selling entertainment entity in COD MW3. :)
Valve will no doubt start putting out their great list of IP's and those will only be found on Steam, meaning Half-life, L4D, Team fortress, Portal, and maybe the biggest one of all in Counterstrike, ALL available on Steam and not Origin. Half-life is considered THE PC title that started it all.
They can't beat steam! Why? Becuz steam has more than just ea games & has ea games. Swotor is Origins only hope..
no ea games in the top 20 sellers..
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this seriously blows. all the people i'd wanna play with aren't gonna get it now-- not because they refuse to, just because we all network on steam, we all join each others games and set up invites on steam, these guys are simply just not going to care about it if it isn't on steam-- not cuz they're fanboys or anything, just cuz they'll say "meh". hell, half of them probably won't even realize when it's out. they'll just keep playing CSS, L4D, day of defeat and bad company 2 because it's more about the social experience of playing with one another than the game itself because we're a group of friends from college.
i'm sure this carries over for a lot of other steam users as well, and if this fall is gonna be all about CHOOSE YOUR SIDE: BATTLEFIELD OR CALL OF DUTY!!!!!!111111111 then it's gonna be a lot easier for groups of friends who network thru steam to say, "okay, screw it, call of duty's good enough" since that's gonna be the one headlining steam's store come november. or hell, maybe not-- maybe i'm generalizing the way my group of friends operates to a good chunk of other steam users-- but regardless, it's pretty dumb of EA to not try to get their game onto a network with over 30 million users.