My buddies won't be.
EA Removes Recently Released Games from Steam
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My buddies won't be.
BATTLEFIELD 3 NOT ON STEAM...
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=19388529&postcount=1
Unsure if that means for now or indefinitely.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=19388529&postcount=1
Unsure if that means for now or indefinitely.
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This is not going to be competition though, this is going to be a fracturing of the gaming market with each publisher pushing it's own digital distribution platform. Apparently both Ubisoft and THQ also have something in the works
Let me buy games where I want to, not where you force me to!
This is not going to be competition though, this is going to be a fracturing of the gaming market with each publisher pushing it's own digital distribution platform. Apparently both Ubisoft and THQ also have something in the works
Let me buy games where I want to, not where you force me to!
Oh don't worry. It probably won't be long until the only way you can buy games is direct from the publisher as a digital download. Just as soon as digital distributions comes to consoles they'll swoop right in to completely block any possibility of second hand sales and GAME will probably go bust
Frankly I'm not that desperate to play ME3 that I'll be buying it anywhere but Steam. Not even sure I give a damn about BF3 either tbh.
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Let me buy games where I want to, not where you force me to!
They're not forcing you to buy games from them though... They're just not letting you get them from Steam.
Valve have been doing this since HL2, which is why I find it a bit negative to say that only they're allowed to do such a thing, because they're value.
Don't get me wrong, I love Steam and I'd prefer everything to be available through there. However, I'm already not getting GoG and Blizzard downloads from different clients and different accounts.
The perfect Steam ruled PC platform already doesn't exist, and was never going to. What's a few more games from a different client? Heck, most the people on this forum already sprout every other week how they'll "never buy another EA game", I guess it doesn't affect them at all.
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They're not forcing you to buy games from them though... They're just not letting you get them from Steam.
Valve have been doing this since HL2, which is why I find it a bit negative to say that only they're allowed to do such a thing, because they're value.
Don't get me wrong, I love Steam and I'd prefer everything to be available through there. However, I'm already not getting GoG and Blizzard downloads from different clients and different accounts.
The perfect Steam ruled PC platform already doesn't exist, and was never going to. What's a few more games from a different client? Heck, most the people on this forum already sprout every other week how they'll "never buy another EA game", I guess it doesn't affect them at all.
Well, we've seen how well the boycotts have worked in the past.
Ok so force was probably too strong a word, I can still buy the games elsewhere and activate them on Origin, it's just my platform of choice
I thought with Valve games it was the other guys who decided not to support them since it was promoting a competing service?
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The story of EA origin.
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This is not going to be competition though, this is going to be a fracturing of the gaming market with each publisher pushing it's own digital distribution platform. Apparently both Ubisoft and THQ also have something in the works
Let me buy games where I want to, not where you force me to!
I'm very happy to be educated on this...but would the fact that EA don't have to give a commission cut of every sale of an EA game made on Valve, not mean that they are effectively providing competition with the Origin service?
Steam today removed 2 bethesda games (Brink & Hunted
emon's Forge) from their UK store for similar reasons as the EA games removal.
It's starting to become more and more obvious steam are not the good guys that everyone seems to believe they are.
emon's Forge) from their UK store for similar reasons as the EA games removal.It's starting to become more and more obvious steam are not the good guys that everyone seems to believe they are.
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Steam today removed 2 bethesda games (Brink & Hunted
It's starting to become more and more obvious steam are not the good guys that everyone seems to believe they are.
Huh? Isn't Brink a Steamworks title?
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Steam today removed 2 bethesda games (Brink & Hunted
It's starting to become more and more obvious steam are not the good guys that everyone seems to believe they are.
Neither Brink nor Hunted have been on Steam for weeks in the UK. What's all this "Today" about?
Yes. You can't buy it from the UK store at the moment though.
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...no... sorry... can't see the logic there. EA selling it at the same price or higher so they can make a bigger profit on games that aren't offered on Steam isn't competition.
If they do not sell the same games they can't possibly be competing. If they started offering indie companies spots on there service with a better offer than Steam, then we can re-assess that statement.
If EA's games were still on Steam then you could argue that they would be competing because EA could offer it for a lower price and still make more profit. But we both know thats not going to happen don't we.
If those articles are right or wrong it doesn't matter, both companies are hypothetically shooting themselves in the foot.
Valve using strict 3rd party rules will essentially lose them lots of income, they won't be able to cater for everyone by not having the selection the customers want. People will just go back to retail or actually use origin god forbid!
EA using the origin only service will force people into getting retail disc's instead of using the more expensive EA download rates.
I like the steam platform, but if they enforce these ridiculous rules I will just buy retail from now on. I do have origin but only because I bought Crysis with a very large discount a long time back when EADM was still the program they used.
Valve using strict 3rd party rules will essentially lose them lots of income, they won't be able to cater for everyone by not having the selection the customers want. People will just go back to retail or actually use origin god forbid!
EA using the origin only service will force people into getting retail disc's instead of using the more expensive EA download rates.
I like the steam platform, but if they enforce these ridiculous rules I will just buy retail from now on. I do have origin but only because I bought Crysis with a very large discount a long time back when EADM was still the program they used.
E.A want all the pie, no matter what the customer wants.
They can shove it as far as I am concerned.
If I ever buy an Origin exclusive game, I will photograph myself naked infront of my PC with a loaf of bread and a tin of baked beans.
They can shove it as far as I am concerned.
If I ever buy an Origin exclusive game, I will photograph myself naked infront of my PC with a loaf of bread and a tin of baked beans.
Steam today removed 2 bethesda games (Brink & Hunted
It's starting to become more and more obvious steam are not the good guys that everyone seems to believe they are.
the reason for the cry sis 2 removal seems to have been EA release exclusive content (possibly some addon or expansion) though origin for the game.
It seems like steams terms state that if you release an addon it must be available to steam customers too.
That seems a pretty "good guy " stance.
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