The feud between Valve and Ea still continues as Dragon Age II was pulled off of Steam today which is the third EA game that was pulled including Battlefield 3 and Crysis 2.
People assumed that EA was just making excuses by making titles exlusive to Origin only, but EA has also said that they want to allow PC titles on as many downloadable services as possible. EA tries to clear things up when EA senior vice president, David MeMartini has this to say:
"Any retailer can sell our games, but we take direct responsibility for providing patches, updates, additional content and other services for the individuals and communities that play our games. These players are connecting to our servers, so we want to provide them with the very best service. This works well for our partnership with Gamestop, Amazon and other online retailers.
"However, when a download service forbids publishers from contacting players with patches, new levels, items and other services – it disrupts our ability to provide the ongoing support players expect from us. At present, this is the case with only one download service. While EA offers its entire portfolio to this site, they have elected to not post many of our games. We hope to find a mutually agreeable solution to this issue soon."
"However, when a download service forbids publishers from contacting players with patches, new levels, items and other services – it disrupts our ability to provide the ongoing support players expect from us. At present, this is the case with only one download service. While EA offers its entire portfolio to this site, they have elected to not post many of our games. We hope to find a mutually agreeable solution to this issue soon."
The items in questioned are Dragon Age II's new Legacy DLC, and the problem is that the DLC is only available as an in-game purchase and not on Steam's store page.
Hopefully this can all just get resolved, I'm not a big fan of EA myself considering that they never gave PC users DLC for Dead Space 2 and pretty much just made me feel like I got ripped off.
