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Crysis 2 Steam Crisis, Origin Exclusivity Planned?

[Jun 14, 2011, 11:50 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

This Crysis 2 Product Page on EA.com has a link to the game on Origin using a "buy now" button that says "only on Origin." In keeping with that there is a discussion on the Steam Users' Forums about how the first-person shooter sequel is no longer available on Valve's online service. On the other hand, as noted in sflufan's NeoGAF post, as of this writing the game is still for digital distribution on Amazon, Direct2Drive, GamersGate, and Impulse, so we'll have to keep an eye on them. It is also noted that Alice: Madness Returns is likewise not available on Steam, but is on other services, so perhaps there's some sort of Steam/Origins turf war brewing. Thanks nin via Kotaku.

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Re: Crysis 2 Steam Crisis, Origin Exclusivity Planned?

Jun 16, 2011, 20:25

Dades

It does make sense from my point of view. That's where you're arrogant, you assume you're automatically right and that I'm an idiot. I never said you were an idiot, I said that you were being a hypocrite earlier. You admitted to your bias twice and proved me correct. The reasons why you are biased in this instance don't really matter to me but for the sake of not being petty I thought I'd mention why your fears are unfounded. It's not a question of who is wrong or right, this is bad for everyone but EA. You say this as if it's fact but I see it happening differently. I see the people who only shop on Steam, I see the indie devs who act like you have to get on Steam to make money, I see gaming journalists acting like Steam is the only game in town, I see that over half my boxes from amazon tie to Steam. All of which conveniently ties to opinion and not facts and you aren't taking into account everything mentioned here. The PC platform can't be taken over unless the hardware is restricted. If developers and publishers seek uniformity in distribution then they will do that with or without Steam. If consumers want the same thing it will happen. That doesn't mean the rest of the platform will cease to exist and you're ignoring how powerful independent distribution is becoming.

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