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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Jun 15, 2011, 00:08
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I'm not sure I understand doing this on an older game like crysis 2...The new game Alice something makes sense, future games make sense but this seems foolish to swap online distribution choices at this point.

Is this origin system going to be something everyone uses going forward no matter where you purchase the game from? Or is origin only going to be attached to the software you buy via origin?

Btw if you don't want to deal with any of this bullshit the console versions of crysis 2 are both $39.99 on amazon at moment. You get a complete product that works out of the box, you can trade it, lend it to a friend, sell it, it's yours. Or you can go pay $59.99 on Origin.
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