Steam

[Durvelle27]

why doesn't steam have Battlefield 3 ?

 

[Oil]

Because EA

 

[Fallen Kell]

Because EA

This ^

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

Why doesn't Steam have any hgames like True Love or Seasons of Sakura?

 

[jacktesterson]

Because EA sucks

 

[Durvelle27]

that sucks

 

[diesbudt]

that sucks

Any EA game made for the PC from here on out will probably not be on Steam, but on Origin.

 

[Jeffg010]

We all need to boycott Origin. The only game I ever got was the starwars MMO and it only lasted a month. I got so many games on steam now I will never buy anther game on Origin.

 

[Barfo]

Why doesn't Steam have Mass Effect 3?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Because EA hates you, hates freedom, and snaps the neck of a puppy each time a child smiles.

 

[Lonyo]

The general consensus is that Steam doesn't have BF3 of Mass Effect 3 because you can buy DLC which isn't through Steam.
If you want to offer DLC, it has to be offered through Steam, otherwise Valve will not allow your game to be sold. As EA want DLC to be purchased through their own system, for now they are not on Steam.
It's similar to the iTunes App store. Apple will not allow in-app purchases, things must be purchased through the iTunes store.


http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/7468888.page
http://www.shacknews.com/article/69194/ea-crysis-2-pulled-from
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/07/no-battlefield-3-on-steam-ea-explain-a-bit/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/30/rumour-crysis-2-steam-return-due-to-lack-of-in-game-store/

 

[HardcoreRobot]

steam and EA could not reach agreement. i dont think its as simple as EA just not wanting to play nicely, but I think they were looking for concessions that steam did not want to give.

 

[WiseUp216]

BF3 will sell a bajillion copies no matter what online outlet it is sold through.

EA wants a bajillion users on its Origin platform and BF3 is their biggest attention-getter right now.

By making BF3 activation exclusive to Origin, they bring in loads of people who otherwise would have just bought it through Steam.

 

[Dankk]

Why doesn't Steam have any hgames like True Love or Seasons of Sakura?

This is the more important question, goddammit. Why does no one talk about this? Steam already has dozens of generic military shooters. As of right now however, it offers absolutely no hentai games or Japano dating sims. Why is this? Why is Valve so afraid of selling games with sex in them? Where are the games that let you fondle hypersexualized anime women of questionable age?

Furthermore, where are the visual novels in general? Steam has ONE visual novel. One. Dammit Steam, get your shit together.

 

[WiseUp216]

This is the more important question, goddammit. Why does no one talk about this? Steam already has dozens of generic military shooters. As of right now however, it offers absolutely no hentai games or Japano dating sims. Why is this? Why is Valve so afraid of selling games with sex in them? Where are the games that let you fondle hypersexualized anime women of questionable age?

Furthermore, where are the visual novels in general? Steam has ONE visual novel. One. Dammit Steam, get your shit together.

How far can you go with Source Filmmaker? ()

 

[diesbudt]

This is the more important question, goddammit. Why does no one talk about this? Steam already has dozens of generic military shooters. As of right now however, it offers absolutely no hentai games or Japano dating sims. Why is this? Why is Valve so afraid of selling games with sex in them? Where are the games that let you fondle hypersexualized anime women of questionable age?

Furthermore, where are the visual novels in general? Steam has ONE visual novel. One. Dammit Steam, get your shit together.

This would be an interesting barrier for a game company like valve to try and test.

 

[surfsatwerk]

This is the more important question, goddammit. Why does no one talk about this? Steam already has dozens of generic military shooters. As of right now however, it offers absolutely no hentai games or Japano dating sims. Why is this? Why is Valve so afraid of selling games with sex in them? Where are the games that let you fondle hypersexualized anime women of questionable age?

Furthermore, where are the visual novels in general? Steam has ONE visual novel. One. Dammit Steam, get your shit together.

Don't fuck up Steam with your preversions.

 

[Red Hawk]

It's not simply EA not wanting their game sold through Steam. EA sells through other online game distributors. The problem, from what I've heard, is that Steam's terms changed a year or so back to require DLC content to be distributed through Steam -- they wanted a piece of that pie. If a developer tried distributing DLC for a game through means outside of Steam, Steam would not allow it on -- this is why Dragon Age II and Crysis II were originally posted on Steam but were taken down. But now, Crysis 2 is actually back on Steam -- the Maximum Edition, which includes all of Crysis 2's DLC directly and EA has no plans for new Crysis 2 DLC.

So it's not as simple as "The evil hellspawn EA despises the white knight Valve and seeks to destroy it by withholding their games". Valve has terms that EA has to meet if it wants to put its games on Steam. EA doesn't want to comply to those terms and doesn't see having its games on Steam as important enough to make them comply -- they think they can make it on their own with Origin or other, less popular online distributors. Now, you can go ahead and hate on EA all you want for not caring enough to make its games acceptable for Steam, but the ultimate decision to keep EA's games off of Steam isn't EA's, it's Valve's.

 

[imaheadcase]

Because Origin is the future..LOL

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

If Origin set up a distribution deal with JList, they'd be raking in that dough.