Dev wrote on Jun 15, 2011, 20:34:

Hyatus wrote on Jun 15, 2011, 16:46:
2. Steam couldn't guarantee the content that didn't come from them. Let's say you buy $200 worth of DLC from EA. EA shuts down Origin or changes their mind on allowing unlimited downloads for DLC. It's going to make Valve look bad. At least with Steam, the content is always there to download.

You mean like the month long DA:O outage that was related to the DLC authentication? The one where bioware was asleep at the switch and it took them a month to figure out they had a problem and fix it so people could play the game again?

nin wrote on Jun 15, 2011, 17:26:

As someone on K points out:

That it's pretty strange that somehow Valve unexpectedly removed it, and not ten seconds later "ONLY ON ORIGIN" advertising kicks into gear.

LOL, good point. Sounds more like EA wanted an excuse to pull the games so they could advertise them as "ONLY ON ORIGIN"
Of course its still available on things like d2d, so maybe EA just doesn't know wtf is going on.