GameStop exec: Battlefield 3 won't appear on Steam

@guest "I was hoping to buy it but if it's not on steam i'll just pirate it, I couldn't give 2 shits if it's not on steam."
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Guest said:
Its so pathetic how people would rather not play one of the most anticipated games of 2011 just because they don't want another client running, you people cant exit steam if it bothers you that much, your life isn't dependent on it....

A hurricane starts with a single drop of rain.

EA always have been, and always will continue to be *******s. When EA games are only available on Origin, for $80, then perhaps you will see where we're coming from.

But hey, who are we to talk. You want to rush out there to pre-order a game, for $60+, buggy as hell on release, and with half the content stripped to be sold to you later as a DLC, go for it bro. I'm sure you'll get a nice TF2 hat out of it...oh wait...damn.
 
Do you have to use origin? because if not, then I could just add it into the steam library as a non steam game.
 
I really don't see what the difference is between BF3 and any other shoot-em-up war game so I don't really care if EA offers this on Steam. I do see Mass Effect 3 going the same route though. Between this and the stupid "buy a code to play online" crap, I think I am done buying EA products until they hit bargain bin pricing.
 
I really think EA did both good and bad, and for good reasons on both. They took off Crysis 2 so that people can download the DX 11 and Hi-res texture patches for free. If it was implemented in steam, people might have to pay for the DLC, which are the patches. On other people's thoughts, it's for EA's way to attract attention. Yes I understand that, yes it wasn't a very good way to attract attention, no I won't mind if they make titles Origin exclusive. Just tell your friends to sign up for origin and you should be fine.
 
EA nor DIce care if Steam and or its users buy the game. It will still sell just fine and many of the users who claim they won't buy the game, well just as many said they wouldn't buy CoD:BO, well we all know how that went.
EA has a right to make, sell and distribute their own content and Valve don't allow that. It's not like EA say no you can't have the game. Steam isn't that great of a service and is no better than Origin, Steam is just popular. I've used both for years. They r just services for me to buy a game and play it. Some may use Steam for other things but I don't.
You can have both, no reason you can't. If people don't want EA then don't but don't go cryin about how EA is about money and what not. All businesses is about money. EA's way of things isn't new and most people have known that for years.
 
raswan said:
gwailo247 said:
Steam should give EA the middle finger and put BFBC2 and all other shooters for sale for 99 cents on October 24th. Sure, it will cost them money, but it would cut into BF3 sales for sure.

Liking this idea.

Mee Too.. I will Keep sticking my self to my BC2
 
I live in south america and the only way to get a non-pirated game is through a digital store like Steam. I love Steam but I really wanted to play BF3 so I went to the other digital stores to pre-order the game and in all of them is not available in my region (What the hell?). Then I went to the Origin store and they charge the prices in euros (euro is way too expensive in my country), so BF3 costs 50 ? which is way more than I would actually paid in Steam. Despite of that I was going to pre-order the game paying way more than I should in the Origin store but for no reason they didn't accept my credit card which is actually a joke since I've been buying games on Steam with this same card since long time ago. So I can't buy the game coz' pc games never hit stores around here and I can't buy it digital and I actually upgraded my pc to play this game. So EA don't blame pc gamers if the game gets pirated here in South America just because you want to win the war over Steam which is the best digital store for me.
 
It seems pretty unanimous that people want to use steam to manage all there games. It is the largest digital distributor of games for a reason. The consumer votes with their wallets, weather they know it or not. People voted for steam and EA wants to change that. EA certainly isn't making any friends right now with origin and a lot of people are getting mad. I don't know if Valve is a business with morals, but our best interest right now is their best interest. BF3 sales will take a large hit because of this. I will not invest in Origin after I have bought 40+ games on steam. People are taking this seriously because people have a reason to take it seriously.

It seems that Valve is trying to do the right thing. EA wants to make everything proprietary so they can charge and do what they want to the games. Valve, IMO, is saying, "No, EA, you shouldn't do things this way and we wont let our users get sucked into it." I'm sure there are a lot of users disappointed about EA games getting removed from steam, but at the same time Valve is bringing to light what EA is actually trying to do. Valve is making the PC gaming community take a hard look at what EA is doing, I'm sure they are taking a lot of heat right now. It is also making a lot of us choose between what platform to use, who to vote for with our wallets and why. EA seems to be destroying the PC gaming community where as Valve thrives on it.

They are trying to make more money while reducing the quality of service they need to provide to their customers. If you can only buy EA games from EA they can do what ever they want and charge what ever they want. Valve has to provide the same quality of service from many publishers and developers(even letting some small/start up developers sell games) to all users to keep it's license agreements. It does a fantastic job too. I don't like EA's business model, I don't like what they do to developers, I don't like what they are doing to PC gaming, and I don't think they will provide the quality of service that we all expect from steam.

If all it takes to do the right thing is not buy something, that's a small sacrifice to make. I vote for steam, EA will only push users away with this anti-competitive behavior.
 
Disdain for EA's buisness practices will hopefully outweigh the PC communities desire to get their hands on BF3. Radical thought... I know, but EA is a Goliath that will take ALOT to put in check(which NEEDS to happen). I'm very curious to see how this all turns out.
 
Yea I was really looking forward too BF3 .. but their is no way in hell I will buy it now. The facts are steam has been doing this longer then anyone else and well .. they have it done right. Everyone elses online sales is GRRRR at best. And at worst it would be somthing like .. Games for WIndows Live. I have bought MANY games online. From Windows Live, D2D, Impulse, Steam and Others... However I have stopped buying them if the are not on steam .. hell I will pay more for them on steam if anything .. because it works. The Dls are fast, the updates are out ASAP, the in game network and achments are grate ... Face it ... Steam has this on LOCK!

I am 100% sure EA will come around after the game bombs on PC .. well he had so much hype .. but no1 bought it because it was not on steam.
 
Why not just buy the game, install it, then put it in the steam library and play it from there? It's really NOT that hard. If you can't do that, then I'm glad you won't be playing. BF is a team game and most *****s are not team players. You guys can have your twitch shooters. I'll be on BF.
 
You don't need steam to buy/play your games. That's not really the point. Steam is my iTunes (or whatever you use to sync music,photos,etc...) for games, every time I build a new pc all my games are right there. Even ones I bought 5 - 6 years ago. I don't have any games on dvd anymore, I either through them anyway or lost them. Don't have to worry about that with Steam.

It's all about convenience, service and peace of mind. Go Steam!
 
I can't wait to see Activision pull the same crap. Perhaps even Ubisoft?

Let's fragment the market even more with every major publisher having it's own Download 'Service' - yay!
 
It's either Steam or nothing when it comes to PC games. No other distributor is worth it. I guess I'll have to buy it for my PS3 even-though it won't look as good.
 
I will support local future-shop! and buy locally!

BUT that is after I play a trial from a certain bay ... just to see if its all they say it will be.

if its anything like BC2 .. (ie .. can't strafe while running) then i won't spend more then 10 bucks!
 
I don't even need to list the reasons why EA is stupid. I don't need to list the reasons why Steam rocks either. This goes without saying. I'm just not gonna buy EA games anymore.

I completely understand why Steam has these rules they keep referring to. I WANT to get all my patches and DLC through Steam. It's as easy as it gets! With Mass Effect 2, I had to fart about creating Bioware or EA account or something and then pay money to get points to pay for the DLC which always left me with unused points in the end. I want it all through Steam! Why does this have to be so difficult?
 
I only buy games through Steam, no exceptions. I have a massive Steam library, it's easy to login from any computer and play my games. I won't buy from somewhere else.
 
I'm not buying a game that I can't store in my Steam library. I won't buy it. I'll pirate it and use Tunngle to play online. Suck it EA.
 
"EA and DICE's Battlefield 3 is perhaps the most anticipated shooter coming out this year and apparently it won't be available on one high-profile digital distribution service. Want to guess which one?"

Netflix?
 
Omg.. U got to be kiddin me.

I've waited this game 4ever to be released and now it dumps this crap on us.

*sigh*

Looks like i have to buy retail.....
 
I'll pass. I don't need or want to add a new client to play games. And as gwailo247 pointed out, this is nothing more than a money-grab by EA anyway.

Agreed. They've lost my purchase now, I'm not bogging my PC down with another game client when the one I use now is perfectly suited to the task.
 
Sooo I may be wrong but the problem seems to be "If *Product X* doesn't come to the store I buy tons of stuff from, I wont purchase it from ANY OTHER STORE!!" Really??? How foolish and childish. I really thought computer users were more mature
 
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