EA explains why Crysis 2 was pulled from Steam

[Per Hansson]

yRaz; I don't in any way disagree with you.
I just fail to see how any of it is relevant to this article.
It seems nowdays whenever the words "EA" or "Crysis" or "Crytek" are mentioned there literally must be a bashing fest.
No matter what the original article was even about...
It's the same on most forums I visit.

 

[IAMTHESTIG]

example1013 said:
And then Battlefield 3 will come out, and everyone will buy it.

I'm not buying it because it probably won't have LAN multiplayer support. If it does i'll buy it, but local retail most likely. I don't buy games at full prices on Steam, or any online gaming store for that matter when I can get a physical copy with box at the same price. I only buy games on Steam when they are heavily discounted.

 

[Guest]

Hey LOOK at the origin picture closely there's a pattern and it reveals a bloody swastika!! what is this kind of symbol doing in a gaming name!!

 

[yRaz]

Per Hansson said:
yRaz; I don't in any way disagree with you.
I just fail to see how any of it is relevant to this article.
It seems nowdays whenever the words "EA" or "Crysis" or "Crytek" are mentioned there literally must be a bashing fest.
No matter what the original article was even about...
It's the same on most forums I visit.

I think that a lot of people are mad about all three of those, and they have every right to be. We could go on to debate the relevance, as I believe it is relevant, but arguing over relevance is irrelevant.

 

[ramonsterns]

Sounds like an excuse on their part to be perfectly honest.

 

[treetops]

Blizzard was never on steam... Battlenet has been around before steam. Steam uses up more system resources then any other patching client. While your in the game playing steam is running up in the background taking up around 10% of your computers resources. Its pretty dumb. Also I cannot play any of my steam games through my cell phones internet, but I can play all my other games including sc2. Anytime I hear that I must use steam to play a game I hesitate to buy it and give the game a second look. I bought a game called pam on steam and its came out this year. It has NO ONE in the multiplayer. I have bought 3 games from steam and only 1 DNF has ANY multiplayer games. They come out with steam exclusive games all hyped up, steam refuses to release sales data, you buy the game and you can search for 4 hours and not find one damn multi game. DNF works fine but the other 2.... And yes I will now explain to the er slow why it would be nice to see the sales data. You use it to judge how good a game is and its multiplayer base. Steaming pile of crap.

I read most of the comments on this article and no one lists a actual benefit from having this game on steam.

 

[Mr772]

EA Sucks - I haven't gotten any games from them since Madden was dropped from the PC and made console only.

 

[Phraun]

treetops said:
Blizzard was never on steam... Battlenet has been around before steam. Steam uses up more system resources then any other patching client. While your in the game playing steam is running up in the background taking up around 10% of your computers resources. Its pretty dumb. Also I cannot play any of my steam games through my cell phones internet, but I can play all my other games including sc2. Anytime I hear that I must use steam to play a game I hesitate to buy it and give the game a second look. I bought a game called pam on steam and its came out this year. It has NO ONE in the multiplayer. I have bought 3 games from steam and only 1 DNF has ANY multiplayer games. They come out with steam exclusive games all hyped up, steam refuses to release sales data, you buy the game and you can search for 4 hours and not find one damn multi game. DNF works fine but the other 2.... And yes I will now explain to the er slow why it would be nice to see the sales data. You use it to judge how good a game is and its multiplayer base. Steaming pile of crap.

I read most of the comments on this article and no one lists a actual benefit from having this game on steam.

It's not Valve's fault you're buying games nobody has ever heard of and expecting to find fifty thousand people ready to play online. And honestly, DNF? Out of the huge selection of multiplayer capable games on Steam, you opt for that? You realize you have access to TF2, CS, the Unreal Tournament catalogue, myriad MMOs, hell, I wouldn't be surprised it Terraria had a bigger multiplayer following than DNF does... But no, you buy Duke Nukem and a bargain bin destruction derby game and whine about a lack of online presence.

I find it very difficult to garner even the smallest bit of sympathy for you. Certainly you have no right to blame Steam for the failings of games that they neither advertised nor developed, particularly given the extent of your own delusions with regard to the projected multiplayer populations of said games.

 

[Omnislip]

treetops said:
Blizzard was never on steam... Battlenet has been around before steam. Steam uses up more system resources then any other patching client. While your in the game playing steam is running up in the background taking up around 10% of your computers resources. Its pretty dumb. Also I cannot play any of my steam games through my cell phones internet, but I can play all my other games including sc2. Anytime I hear that I must use steam to play a game I hesitate to buy it and give the game a second look. I bought a game called pam on steam and its came out this year. It has NO ONE in the multiplayer. I have bought 3 games from steam and only 1 DNF has ANY multiplayer games. They come out with steam exclusive games all hyped up, steam refuses to release sales data, you buy the game and you can search for 4 hours and not find one damn multi game. DNF works fine but the other 2.... And yes I will now explain to the er slow why it would be nice to see the sales data. You use it to judge how good a game is and its multiplayer base. Steaming pile of crap.

I read most of the comments on this article and no one lists a actual benefit from having this game on steam.

All the stuff that phraun said, and:

Steam barely takes up any of your resources unless you are using the shift tab menu, which is an absolutely fantastic tool.

Tell me a hyped up steam game without a solid multiplayer following. What the hell is PAM? What sort of crappy games are you buying and expecting everyone else to have?

Oh, and by the way, http://store.steampowered.com/stats/?snr=1_4_4__110 will show you the top 100 played games both at peak on one day and right when you look at the site. Is that helpful? Yes.

Benefits of having steam:
Overlay
Friend chat system
Friend invite system
Auto patching
Steam sales
Centralised game list etc etc etc

Although I did appreciate your 'steaming' pun.

 

[princeton]

Per Hansson said:
yRaz; I don't in any way disagree with you.
I just fail to see how any of it is relevant to this article.
It seems nowdays whenever the words "EA" or "Crysis" or "Crytek" are mentioned there literally must be a bashing fest.
No matter what the original article was even about...
It's the same on most forums I visit.

I don't even get why people care. If you hate it, then just don't read anything about it and don't play it. If you don't think about Crysis 2 then how can it possibly hurt you?

 

[Guest]

What methods were they attempting to use exactly?

"But we take direct responsibility for providing patches, updates, additional content and other services to our players"

Many publishers have no problem staying in contact with customers with notifications placed within the game's menu, bypassing steam notifications entirely.

This was all maneuvering to get more "Origin exclusive" titles, nothing more nothing less.

I am not against them trying to build a customer base for their service OR withdrawing their products from other services, it's the underhanded "It wasn't us, it was them" method they chose to go about it.

 

[treetops]

All the stuff that phraun said, and:

Steam barely takes up any of your resources unless you are using the shift tab menu, which is an absolutely fantastic tool.

Tell me a hyped up steam game without a solid multiplayer following. What the hell is PAM? What sort of crappy games are you buying and expecting everyone else to have?

Oh, and by the way, http://store.steampowered.com/stats/?snr=1_4_4__110 will show you the top 100 played games both at peak on one day and right when you look at the site. Is that helpful? Yes.

Benefits of having steam:
Overlay
Friend chat system
Friend invite system
Auto patching
Steam sales
Centralised game list etc etc etc

Although I did appreciate your 'steaming' pun.

Sweet a user who list why they like steam for a change. Every game I have played offers all that except.
Steam sales (seems like they have good sales)
Cent game list (they have to many crap games on those lists, fool me once...)
I looked at it and steam uses 10% of my cpu and ram. I hate being forced to use steam. The DNF population is booming btw for the other person who misread. If I buy a game 2 weeks after its released I expect there to be a multiplayer base. Steam is the only place I have ever bought a game 2 weeks after it was released with no multiplayer base. I don't know why that is but the fact remains. I would love for steam to turn off when I launch my game, I would love it more if it never turned on automatically when launching. Sometimes I like to browse games yes, but how hard would it be to let me load there browser at my own discretion?