Are you fricking kidding me?! Seriously...I'm going to be pissed if I can't get Battlefield 3 on Steam. Congratulations EA...you just lost a lot of money.

I agree you ^. I am not buying EA games if they aren't on Steam. I don't think EA realizes that they don't have many games that people will actually want to buy. Crysis was one of the few games that are actually worth it and considering part 2 was a failure, I cannot help, but see EA's store flunking.

Speaking I only buy games on steam when they have those amazing sales I doubt I will ever own another EA game. Since going to the Origin store you see zero sales and only full MSRP on their games. Oh well their loss.

arrh nuts, EA you greedy sods. WHY

If you check out Origin, They are offering Left4dead 1&2 and Portal 2. Unless we hear in a couple days that Steam has done the same thing, I bet they have a deal in place.

Same, I am not buying an EA game if its Orgin only, I only use Steam and will continue this for several reasons other an just great prices.
EA, if you seriously make Battlefield 3 Orgins only you have lost another customer.
Personally, I really wish Steam had an app for iOS devices so I can see what friends are online and chat to them but thats about the only thing Orgin has that looks of any use.

Silly EA, trying to make more money.

And so it begins...

Oh well I'll just get a hard copy then for BF3

EA is obviously hurting its partnership with Steam in order to (artificially) promote its news platform.
Nevertheless, I'm a little bit confused by the previous comments.
Did you really ever boycott a retail store proposing the game you were expecting to buy, because one other retail store did not have it?
Is the place you buy your game more important than the gaming experience?

How am I supposed to buy a game on Origin outside of US/Canada if the Billing Information at checkout only permits those two? Also in my EA profile my country is not even listed.

Also nowhere to be found on Steam the already launched "Alice: Madness Returns". "Star Wars: The Old Republic" will be an "exclusive" as far as I heard. Wonder if Mass Effect 3 will get the same treatment.

For me the message from EA is clear: "Can't buy our games? Then pirate them."

Welp, that's three games I intended to purchase when they went on sale on Steam, but now won't be buying at all. Good work EA.

They will make you register the copy with Origin anyway.

Its called having perspective, and knowing that if you don't make your voice of dissent heard when they start this poo, they'll keep doing it and get worse. Having the game available on multiple stores will lead to the inevitable sales and offers, which probably won't come if the game is exclusive to one store.

People talk about hurting Sony or hurting EA, but the reality is that these huge corporations don't get hurt, not in any meaningful way. In the end the only person that gets hurt is the consumer.

Another Smack in the face for PC gamers, and people who actually buy games.

For me it comes down to not having 230942039842 background apps running when I want to play one game.... I like to fire up steam and that's all and have all my games there. Its a performance thing.

I guess I could install Origin, let it install the game, and then shortcut it through steam, assuming that it won't auto-launch Origin.

Now, could I shut down one and only run the other when I switch games? Sure. Do I want to? No.

EA is making a lot of dumb moves recently, IMHO. I hope they change their minds quickly before going the way of the dodo.

Personally, I don't go to retail outlets to buy PC games anymore. I buy from one place: Steam. If the games are not on steam I don't buy them. I have no desire to have my games fragmented across multiple applications. I want one application, and since Steam is publisher agnostic that is the one I'm sticking with.

i'm not getting an origin account, much like how i'm not getting a uplay, or Windows LIVE account.
goodbye bad sequel

But EA makes less money this way, considering they are charging hard copy prices on Orgin anyway, they basically lose a small percentage that the Shop rightly takes as profit.

So yeah you'll still need orgin, but they get less money at least...

It's not about whining because you have to used a different retail store. Keyword being retail. This is having to sign up for another service, download another program, and switch to and run said program to play 1, maybe 2 games. It's about not being able to purchase and run all of your games from one program anymore. It's a pathetic tactic: they know they can't compete with Steam (seriously, why try?) so they decided to boycott it and force customers to buy into their stupid - and second - attempt.