Battlefield 3 Coming To Steam After All?
According to an anonymous source on Battlefield 3 Blog, Electronic Arts and Valve are in high-level talks to bring DICE’s new shooter to Steam. For those who haven’t been following the EA/Valve debacle, here’s a quick summary: Valve requires companies to sell DLC through the Steam Store, allowing royalties to be claimed on said downloadable content.
EA, upon the release of Crysis 2, threw a hissy fit and was all like “Nuh uh!” and pulled the game from the store due to their disagreements with Valve. For a while, it looked like Battlefield 3 definitely wasn’t coming to Steam.
Now, however, the source is saying that they’ve (mostly) put their differences aside and come to an agreement on this very-much-not-at-all-trivial issue. I, for one, am happy – even if it means I’ll have to pay more. I’ll gladly fork over the extra money to not have to open Origin ever again.
[via Battlefield 3 Blog] (We would like to stress that this is an unofficial blog, not endorsed by EA or DICE.)
Neat! If it comes to Steam I might actually play it. My desire to not deal with Origin outweighs my desire to play BF3.
like toasthaste said, i want to play Battlefield 3 so bad, but i NEVER! will install Origin
I don`t see what the fear over installing origin is…so much so that you would completely skip playing BF3?!?
More competition just means better pricing and more choice for the consumer in the end.
Origin sucks donkey dongle. I have Battlefield 3 and like it alot. I reinstalled my whole win os and thus had to reistall origin for BF3 and 1 month later it is still downloading. WTF!
Steam doesn’t play that kind of BS. It is a 2 disc game, why in the world does it want to download 11-12 gigs from the internet. Install it from the disc not the net. Origin is crap and EA is f***ing up by forcing that on a consumer just to play their games. EA i guess believes that the wheel needed reinventing.
Why do you people have such a problem with this?! there is absolutely nothing wrong with Origin..
because its a spyware – no one likes DRM, and nothing is worse than having a DRM that snoops into your personal data.
Well let’s hope that if it ever comes to Steam the price will look nice, there is……quite a huge difference between buying in Origin and Impulse when i last checked