New Battlefield 3 multiplayer footage surfaces, Battlelog detailed

Damn it looks good! Too bad it wont come out on Steam... Greedy EA... At least until this problem is solved I'll have time to update my graphics cards (yeah... Plural) LOL

Don't care about the multiplayer anymore as I won't pay for the game if it's not on Steam!

Right.

Maybe buy a Retail copy then.Unless Digital copy is the only way.Since you all don't want to use EA Origin's ™ Digital service.Be kinda sad to miss out on such a great cool game,Just because it isn't on STEAM ™...

90% of my games are on Steam. While Steam has done alot to improve their service there are times when they suck. Bf2bc would not launch once because of the steam client. It took a week to resolve as he Steam tech was a complete jerk. I welcome the competition. It will suck using both services (Origin and steam but in the end history has proved that its good to have competition.
Maybe this will force the development of Half-Life 3? I am not paying $60 for it. I remember the first week of Bf2bc...the games multiplayer was too laggy to play for about 2 weeks.

Can't wait! Looks awesome.

Why would anyone pass up on this game because its not being on steam? use d2d or any other digital service or just buy a copy.

I believe the game is coming out October 25th and not November 25th?

I don't understand why no availability on Steam is a non-starter for so many people. It's like saying that if the waiter at a restaurant doesn't pour your water for you, you won't drink it. Go out and buy the game at a store, you spoiled, whiny, steaming turds.

Its not just in Origin. Just don't buy in Origin.

Retail for me. I wouldn't miss this game for anything!!!

Retail copy all the way. I mean I really have grown to like Steam but it can not keep me from this badboy! BF2ers have been waiting to long! Plus BF2 didn't have steam at it was just fine.

Why the over-reliance on Steam..?

I maintain 3 computer systems & find that just buying 3 copies of each game. That way I have hard copies of everything, if/when computer needs formatted, etc.

Even have a copy on my thumbdrive.. so all u need is the key-codes and installing my games are a snap! But how many of you only game on Laptops, where Steam, seems to be the transient type persons choice.

Plus, how can you have a library of your games on the shelve... make no sense.

looks like crysis 2...or worse..

Those who had the will to buy it but finally they won't 'cause it won't be on Steam, simply they lie.

They just fooling themselves. None else.

Oh boy, Bad Company 2.5.

Shoot rocket at building on border of map = Scorch mark
Shoot rocket at statue = Scorch mark
Shoot rocket at building = Crappy cooked debris falls in the same place every time regardless of angle it received the hit

Call me when they decide to make a game with actual destructible environments instead of another re-skin of Bad Company with archaic gameplay mechanics.

Exactly. Why wouldn't go for a retail copy?? No offense but how did you guys play games back then Steam wasn't around.

Don't cut off nose to spite face. This is a wonderful game.

Well, I won't be paying Aussie prices for it, Import it for half price Retail I think. I'm not too miffed that it's not on steam, I have lots of games added as Non-Steam.

I remember being able to register an EA downloader account with my STEAM cd key for BC2 and being able to download in both locations. Ahh that was good stuff.

That's a stupid analogy! If you want to use that scenario, a more appropriate one would be: You go to eat at a great restaurant that you have been going to for years and expect to order what you would like, but you cant order a specific dish/drink because the supplier for that restaurant has decided that they are not going to make their ingredients available so that they might drive up sales of their newly opened restaurant which makes that dish/drink.

Its just bad business imo. Another even better analogy would be: Entering Bestbuy to purchase a PS3, but Sony has decided that PS3 will be sold in every retail store including their own Sonystyle stores, but will be excluded specifically from Bestbuy, simply because Bestbuy wants to be guaranteed that they will also be able to sell PS3 accessories, or so Sony says (In this case, Steams DLC policy). We all know the real driving factor here.

Okay, we might be a little whinny, i'll give you that, but we have a right to be, we are the customer. We should be able to choose where/who we buy our merchandise from. As many have already said: Steam does it right. People who use Steam have all of their games in their Steam library, they have all of their friends on Steam. Its easy to get in touch with them, its easy to manage patches/updates because its all done for you. You don't have to go to FileFront, or whatever, to download the patch, and then install it, you wont run into any patch install issues, its all been worked out from Steam's end. If there is a problem, Steam, as well as its community is right there to help. You don't have to keep track of your CD keys, or games discs, its a very, very convenient service, and we've grown accustom to it. Did i mention they do it right? It works, it works GREAT. Why would we want to change?

Who care about steam i hate having all my games in one place so when steam is down for maintenance i cant play anything no way

I get most of my games Retail anyways as they are the same price and dont waste my precious download cap(yeah we canadians have very low CAP on our download)