Will EA games ever return to Steam?

[Mumziz]

So my question is will any EA published games return to Steam? Personally i despise Origin so damn much and EA. But they got some really good studios, like DICE and Bioware.

I mainly want them back because they seem to change their attitude. With Battlefield 4, Battlefront and Mirrrors Edge coming out I would love to have those games on Steam.

[blackforce999]

hope ea never put anything on steam. orgin is just fine. and who cares if you love steam, tell steam to make games for you. i us both and both are working great, have never had a problem.

[Elo Terrorist]

i hope they do

[duckbot]

Messaggio originale di Laptop65:

They are right, as Steam's policy on games does not allow games that allow you to purchase DLC FROM WITHIN THE GAME on here. EA need to change the way their games work so that you cannot buy DLC in-game (at least for a Steam version).

They do allow that however. They just don't allow you to only sell said DLC in-game or on another site, you also have to sell it on Steam.

[Sanflaa™]

The chanse that EA games come to steam is low because they just whant money and that is why they have origin i think. If the games come to steam we are only gonna use steam and not origin and that are why i think.

[Vile~Frequency]

Hope they do. Origin knows to bug really hard sometimes... or maybe all the time.

[DoomSplitter]

Messaggio originale di Laptop65:

They are right, as Steam's policy on games does not allow games that allow you to purchase DLC FROM WITHIN THE GAME on here. EA need to change the way their games work so that you cannot buy DLC in-game (at least for a Steam version).

Or maybe Valve needs to just accept that EA wants to sell DLC that way? People keep saying that EA needs to change, but Valve is being just as stubborn.

[Dog]

Messaggio originale di DoomSplitter:

Or maybe Valve needs to just accept that EA wants to sell DLC that way? People keep saying that EA needs to change, but Valve is being just as stubborn.

Very true, you don't see a lot of reasonable down to earth people on these discussions.

[crunchyfrog]

Messaggio originale di DoomSplitter:

Messaggio originale di Laptop65:

They are right, as Steam's policy on games does not allow games that allow you to purchase DLC FROM WITHIN THE GAME on here. EA need to change the way their games work so that you cannot buy DLC in-game (at least for a Steam version).

Or maybe Valve needs to just accept that EA wants to sell DLC that way? People keep saying that EA needs to change, but Valve is being just as stubborn.

A fair point - there is no right or wrong in such a case.

On a personal note, I tend to lean towards Valve's stance a little more, as I feel advertising your DLC up-front and not coming upon it whilst in-game is a better stance, that's not to say it's right.

[Dub]

Origin is crap

[Web watcher]

I do not think they will sell there big IPs on steam any more (Battlefiled, Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Need For Speed etc) as they are trying to get a slice of the pie they just found out about which is digital distribution, EA did not give it much attention early on but after the change in steam DLC policies they decided to make the own platform so unless origin crash and burn dont hold your hopes up.

[crunchyfrog]

Messaggio originale di random guy:

I do not think they will sell there big IPs on steam any more (Battlefiled, Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Need For Speed etc) as they are trying to get a slice of the pie they just found out about which is digital distribution, EA did not give it much attention early on but after the change in steam DLC policies they decided to make the own platform so unless origin crash and burn dont hold your hopes up.

Sorry for the pedantry, but that's not strictly true.

EA already HAD their own platform (which has been renamed twice now, iirc - Origin being the 3rd name for it), so they comfortably operated both there and on Steam for a few years.

Although it would be fair to say that over these last few years they've got increasingly greedy, so it wouldn't surprise me if the decision to move exlcusively to their own platform was one of not wishing to split their profits.

Obviously, your last comment "after the change in Steam DLC policies, they decided to make their own platform" is quite untrue. It had been going sometime. It seems that Steam's policy change was just a convenieny reason to do the move completely.

[Ing. Storchenbein]

I hope they never come back.

[Satyrion]

i hope so Origin does not work for me and never has

[DCT]

EA will contuine to release their big titles through origin and keep them exclusively there till they decide to finally start trying to sell to the no steam-no buy hold outs, sadly we are going to see more big publishers do this Ubisoft with Uplay, Blizzard with Battle.net which is now becoming it's own client based digital store and won't be surprised if Activision doesn't follow suit. Which kinda sickens me to be honest..yeah having your own digital store front is one thing but you don't have to make it be a client based steam clone..one client based store is bad enough for me since I don't want 20 diffrent clients cluttering up my PC and have to log into all of them to play a damn game still on the other hand considering these guys desire to cling to DRM schemes being forced to use 50 million clients isn't that bad when compaired to some of the other copy protrection/DRM monstrasities I have dealt with in all my long years of gaming.

Still don't care for it rather just have steam and then a bunch of non client based digital store fronts

[Dog]

Messaggio originale di DCT:

Blizzard with Battle.net which is now becoming it's own client based digital store and won't be surprised if Activision doesn't follow suit.

You're aware that Activision Blizzard is the parent company of both Blizzard and Activision right? it's a merger company.

Odds are they'd use the same service.