EA States Battlefield 3 Will NOT be on Steam

[troybob]

To me it's the principle of it. I loved Sim City 2000. Maxim was a great studio. Then EA bought it. I loved Battlefield 1942. Dice was a great studio. I helped beta test Desert Combat (Trauma). Trauma went to Dice. Then EA bought DICE. I haven't been as happy with any battlefield title since as I was with 1942. Additionally, this isn't just a studio, it's a distribution method. This is mini-history in the making, as it could lead to market precedence down the road. If a game company owns a digital distribution company, Steam is going to have a hard time negotiating winning terms. It's an interesting paradigm in the tech industry called "coopetition". (Like Cisco competing against HP in one market but uses HP hardware in another). It's interesting because the box-version market is much different. EA doesn't compete against Best Buy. But if Best Buy released an online digital delivery and manegement system, would EA yank boxes from shelves as well? Probably not. But thats what EA isn't counting on. EA is counting on steam users to use 2 systems at once. If EA keeps BF3 from STEAM, I'll just do what I always do when games aren't on steam: Buy the box. EA is betting on Origin. And people think that if there are Steam die-hards out there (like me), they must be open to other platforms as well. And that's not an unreasonable position, but there are still boxes. And I'd rather play the game out of a box then trust a company run by EA. Prove me wrong EA. Make me believe, but not with gimmicks of Origin orders. I grew up with your titles and I deserve a little more. EA wants Steam out of the picture to drive Origin sales. But I bet most folks will just pre-order a box from their local gamestop.

[Minmaster]

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This. If Wal Mart carried it, it would take me about an hour, maybe 2. If I had to go to Best Buy or Game Stop, It'd be about 5 hours to get there, if I walked the highway.

Crunch

i knew crunch was one of them mountain men!~

[Anarchy1]

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The girls at Wal-Mart might see me and laugh at me

[zuiquan1]

Why walk when you can skip?

[CptainCrunch]

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Everyone should buy hard copies,your going to ruin the gaming industry because it will all be online DL,pay to play and DLC in the future, why encourage that.Do you want your hard copies to die because your too fat to walk to the store?

That was funny. +rep

It would take me hours to walk to the store. It's 15 miles through mostly farmland :/

This. If Wal Mart carried it, it would take me about an hour, maybe 2. If I had to go to Best Buy or Game Stop, It'd be about 5 hours to get there, if I walked the highway.

Crunch

[jimykx]

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Take the choppa

[Anarchy1]

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It would take me hours to walk to the store. It's 15 miles through mostly farmland :/

[Rambo]

Everyone should buy hard copies,your going to ruin the gaming industry because it will all be online DL,pay to play and DLC in the future, why encourage that.Do you want your hard copies to die because your too Jelly to walk to the store?

[CptainCrunch]

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Saying you are working on an agreement in a press release doesn't necessarily mean you are. Doesn't seem to me that any other publishers are having such a hard time getting their games on steam, if you wanted to have it on steam so badly you'd already have an agreement.

And saying nothing about the events might mean nothing is happening on the other side. Soooo, there you go.

Crunch

[cikame]

Saying you are working on an agreement in a press release doesn't necessarily mean you are. Doesn't seem to me that any other publishers are having such a hard time getting their games on steam, if you wanted to have it on steam so badly you'd already have an agreement.

[RangerXML]

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I already pre-ordered on Origin, boycotting something because one small aspect of it isn't 100% like you want it, when a good 90% if it is, is ridiculous. Like the people who don't know all the details of MW3 and automatically hate it.

[Anarchy1]

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It's not EA's fault completely, but they obviously do have a hand in it. The problem is Valve's policy, but EA is the only publisher that has a problem with it. EA is being greedy and wants all the money [from DLC] to themselves. Likewise, Valve is being greedy and wants a share of the profits. Just big companies being big companies...

[CptainCrunch]

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I am surprised about how people have automatically assumed its EAs fault and how many will show loyalty to a storefront vs. the game itself. We dont know what is going on in the background. One company is saying very little and the other is saying nothing at all.

I understand what steam does and what it has to offer, but to say they wont buy it because its not at Wal-Mart makes it seem strange. Yet substitute Wal-Mart with Steam and now it makes sense?

I even changed my mind, with the help of you guys giving feedback on Origin and then trying it out myself. But I was still going to buy BF3, not boycott the entire thing.

http://csnation.net/showthread.php?376686-What-if-you-can-t-buy-digitally-through-Steam&p=3251757#post3251757

I wont degrade anyone who decides not to get it because its not on Steam. Thats their choice as a consumer and they can "vote with the wallet." Im a fan of the games, not the stores who sale the games.

Crunch

[Eagle101]

I agree with what Anarchy said, i was about to post the same suggestion myself, you may use it as a non-steam game like i did with BFBC2, if it works with BF3, because i use steam's 'add non steam game' feature to many titles i own.

Then fuck em, I'll just buy it from a store. They can continue to have high hopes on "origin" lol.