Which is why for something like Cthulu Saves the World you HAVE to be on Steam to sell well (which is a fucking shame by the way, since Steam reject games like Gemini Rue). For Battlefield though? Those people know Battlefield is coming. Come on now.

I care. More profit from PC games means more focus on PC games. I don't have some emotional view of EA as rapists or anything, they just want to make money. If they make more money on the PC, they treat the PC better. It's that simple.

It's also been pointed out several times that EA is not excluding Steam, Steam is excluding EA.

If EA want to directly sell to customers whenever possible and have built a new and ten times better client to facilitate that then good on them if you ask me. Direct sales means more profit for the people actually making the games. I don't have some irrational fear of using multiple game stores, especially since Origin does not have to be running to play games.

This frankly absurd idea you and others have that if EA sell games only through Origin then will radically change pricing is ridiculous.

That is where the competition is, and that is all I care about. EA can't suddenly decide to sell all their games for $100 when they're Origin only, if they ever are. It doesn't matter where you can buy it, if the games/DLC/multiplayer service are too expensive or too low in quality compared to other titles then they won't sell. That keeps prices competitive.

Here you go again assuming everything I write is based on some hatred of Steam you completely made up in your mind.