Bhruic wrote on Aug 6, 2011, 18:24:
However, Dragon Age 2 already had numerous DLC available for purchase in the manner you described before it was removed. It was removed on the day the Legacy DLC was released, what makes that DLC so special?
AFAIK, the only DLC that was available for purchase was stuff that came out right with, or right after DA2 did. This recent DLC is the first that would have been added since the change in Valve's terms of service.
That seems plausible. Looks like the last DA2 DLC was the warrior/rogue/mage item packs at the end of April. Crysis 2 got its first DLC in mid-May and was removed when the second one was released one month later in June, so the supposed change must have happened somewhere between there.
I've heard theories that the change in the Steam policy came about when they added the Free-to-play games that use the Steam Wallet for micro-transactions. Perhaps they worded the ToS specifically to disallow those games bypassing Steam when selling in-game items, and EA's games with new DLC are collateral damage.
Now we need to find out if any other publishers' games have added new DLC that isn't for sale in the Steam store, or if EA is the only one "being difficult."