Crysis 2 Steam Crisis, Origin Exclusivity Planned?

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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I'm honestly not sure if SV does it on purpose or not at this point. He seems to "coincidentally" land on the opposite side of everything released when it comes to popular opinion. It's almost like a hipster sort of antipathy for anything that people in general enjoy/dislike. But if he wants to like bad games for the sake of doing so or genuinely just likes (imho) awful games then that's his right.

I do think his opinions on Steam are totally nonsensical though. He constantly berates the community for being wishy washy with Steam but he does the exact same thing. Origin exclusivity is no better than Steam exclusivity and neither one is good for brick and mortar sales which is what he prefers. At least in the case of Steam Valve has proven to be the lesser of two evils, they work closely with retail partners and are fairly pro-consumer when it comes to business practices. EA is only really interested in taking over the market and has screwed the consumer too many times to count.
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