No Battlefield 3 on Steam

The EA Forums have a confirmation of widespread suspicions that Battlefield 3 will not be sold through Valve's Steam platform (thanks Planet Battlefield). As was theorized, there is a terms of service conflict at the root of this because DICE's military shooter will include the ability to purchase DLC from within the game:
Gamers can pre-order Battlefield 3 at Origin.com as well as over 100 digital retailers worldwide. EA offers games to all major download services. Unfortunately, Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to deliver patches and other downloadable content. No other download service has adopted these practices.

We are intent on providing Battlefield 3 players with the best possible experience no matter where they purchase or play their game, and are happy to partner with any download service that does not restrict our ability to connect directly with our consumers. We hope to work out an agreement where Steam can carry Battlefield 3; meanwhile, gamers can pick from the more than 100 digital retailers listed at http://www.battlefield.com/digitaldownload, or go to http://www.origin.com.
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Acleacius wrote on Aug 7, 2011, 00:30:
It's really hard to believe some are supporting ea, look how they handled battlefield and battlefield 2. The support from them and their inability or refusal to address the cheating, speaks volumes about ea.

Perhaps EA is actually focused on marketing to the cheaters and hackers? I'm not a cheater or hacker, and perhaps your encounting problems with EA as well because you aren't one either. Hackers don't worry about a game being unstable because they simply reverse engineer it and fix the game themselves.

Acleacius wrote on Aug 7, 2011, 00:30:
Valve/Steam does not have those issues, ea doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as *Steam! If your supporting ea your either not paying attention to history or ignoring history. Well I guess ea could be paying you to be here saying nice things about them.

But, nobody really is saying anything nice about EA...all they are are doing is saying bad things about Steam. Do you honestly think there is even one good thing in what EA is doing? They are not only hurting gamers and developers, but also hurting themselves...it is a total lose-lose situation. Is EA really that stupid?

But, yeah...I agree with you...some gamers actually are supporting EA. But, I would bet that those same gamers are the ones that complain about Steam not allowing them to use executables that are different from what everyone else is using and thus not allowing them to use their hacked programs. The ones that complain that the Valve Anti-Cheat system is taking pictures of their gaming screen and not allowing them to play games that they purchased simply because they have replaced the graphics textures with see-through textures or running the graphics card in debug mode.

Perhaps EA's real agenda is hidden. Maybe their marketing is designed to get all the cheaters and hackers to join Origin and then when everything settles down they will provide the list to Interpol as suspected online terrorists. I doubt that anyone can make any sense about what EA is doing. All we can tell is that EA doesn't want to sell games through Steam and instead want to sell their own Origin system. And, from their tactics it seems likely that everyone that joins Origin will...in the near future...have to pay for the service in some way or another.
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