Battlefield 3 not coming to Steam

[drosalion]

I love how they're always talking about how they're going to beat Modern Warfare 3, and then they pull this. Because we always know that the best way to get tons of sales is to not put your game up for sale on a really popular platform like Steam. I wonder when they'll announce that the console versions won't be sold in big name retail chains like GameStop, Walmart, and Best Buy or online sites like Amazon and that you'll have to order it from two obscure sites nobody's ever heard of or EA themselves.

*Walks into GameStop and looks around for BF3, then goes up to counter.*

Me: Where's Battlefield 3 for ps3? (console version for the sake of the thing.)

Clerk: Oh Sorry, we don't have any of those, you will need to drive that newly made: Origin Store that only sells EA games. We will no longer have EA games in stock.

Me: How many people know about Origins?

Clerk: Beats me, I think your the thirtyth person I told.

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Can't wait for this to happen.

Its still available to buy in stores..aswell as every other major online retailer, just not steam.

 

[Wolfram23]

Guys, guys... Just get BF3 on Direct 2 Drive. Screw Origin, I agree.

http://www.direct2drive.com/2/10557/product/Buy-Battlefield-3-Limited-Edition-Download?hph

 

[Korten12]

I love how they're always talking about how they're going to beat Modern Warfare 3, and then they pull this. Because we always know that the best way to get tons of sales is to not put your game up for sale on a really popular platform like Steam. I wonder when they'll announce that the console versions won't be sold in big name retail chains like GameStop, Walmart, and Best Buy or online sites like Amazon and that you'll have to order it from two obscure sites nobody's ever heard of or EA themselves.

*Walks into GameStop and looks around for BF3, then goes up to counter.*

Me: Where's Battlefield 3 for ps3? (console version for the sake of the thing.)

Clerk: Oh Sorry, we don't have any of those, you will need to drive that newly made: Origin Store that only sells EA games. We will no longer have EA games in stock.

Me: How many people know about Origins?

Clerk: Beats me, I think your the thirtyth person I told.

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Can't wait for this to happen.

Its still available to buy in stores..aswell as every other major online retailer, just not steam.

It's a joke look at what mcj0961 said:

I wonder when they'll announce that the console versions won't be sold in big name retail chains like GameStop, Walmart, and Best Buy or online sites like Amazon and that you'll have to order it from two obscure sites nobody's ever heard of or EA themselves.

 

[Littlee300]

I think Origin will be the best for all of us in the end.

Why? Because Steam has not had any real competition up till this point, and will force Valve and EA to find better and cheaper ways to do everything.

In the end, the consumer wins.

Steam always has been doing awesome sales and giving awesome customer service even before it has Microsoft as a competitor. Microsoft's digital distribution program is enough considering they aren't pulling out exclusive stunts like EA.
Edit: For people who use the $ ^.^

Awesome service like pricing everything 30% higher than every other place? As long as Steam keeps it stupid $=? I can't even call there service decent.

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[JPH330]

After the lurching atrocity of the Bad Company 2 PC port, I really can't say I mind this.

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Bad Company 2 rocks - what's irking you about it?!

I can't comment on the content of the game itself, as I wasn't able to play much of it, but the game is horribly optimized for the PC, it never saves my preferences, setting it to a resolution other than what's just right for your computer will stretch the image to abnormal proportions... It just doesn't work properly.

 

[TheTim]

BF3 is just too awesome to be on steam.

 

[Retronana]

Well then I'm not buying, hopefully if enough people don't fall for this bullshit EA will learn their lesson and return to steam. I mean the information on games being deleted after 1 year pretty much settled this.

Also steam is by far a superior service.

 

[Wicky_42]

After the lurching atrocity of the Bad Company 2 PC port, I really can't say I mind this.

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Bad Company 2 rocks - what's irking you about it?!

I can't comment on the content of the game itself, as I wasn't able to play much of it, but the game is horribly optimized for the PC, it never saves my preferences, setting it to a resolution other than what's just right for your computer will stretch the image to abnormal proportions... It just doesn't work properly.

Ouch, I've not had those issues, but I can see why that'd piss you off. My complaints were the absolutely shocking server browser - it was unuseable for months after launch, and the 'play now' button was retarded. Now that they've sorted it, it's a fantastic game and I can't wait for the next... though odds are it's going to have shocking online support on launch, just 'cause EA's gonna be fucking around with Origin lol.

 

[Black Arrow Officer]

Great work shutting down the entire PC market EA. This is the stupidest thing a developer has ever done to their fans.

 

[Legion IV]

Well then I'm not buying, hopefully if enough people don't fall for this bullshit EA will learn their lesson and return to steam. I mean the information on games being deleted after 1 year pretty much settled this.

Also steam is by far a superior service.

Holy F^%$ please stop spreading these lies. Someone in a previous post said the same thing. The only reason EA would ever have to retire a game like they said is because licensing expiration issues.

Battlefeild 3 is EA it will never expire!

HOLY crap people gotta learn before they post blatant lies.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Great work shutting down the entire PC market EA. This is the stupidest thing a developer has ever done to their fans.

Erm...

Didn't steam shut down the entire PC market?

Were people making these same complaints back then?

I don't really care, as long as it works.

 

[bob1052]

Well that aint good if they're planning on beating MW3.

That's a very good point actually, they'll desperately need the steam sales to put them over the top, in the PC market at least the difference is huge.

Why would they care about the PC sales? The PC version of the COD games regularly manages to sell almost as badly as the Wii version. Like, barely a million.

Because COD owns the console market. Battlefield has no chance of unseating COD as the best selling console game ever.

But, just like you said, COD doesn't have shit on the Battlefield brand on PC. It was pretty much guaranteed to outsell COD big time on PC, now not so much.

Unlike COD, Battlefield has a majority of its brand recognition and loyal players on PC.

 

[Awexsome]

I don't see it as a very evil move I see it as a competitive one.

With how big Valve owns the digital distribution market EA needs something that gives their service a reason to use it over Steam. Consoles vie over their exclusive titles and now maybe the clients will have to too.

But of course you have half the Escapist's population willing to bend over backwards to Valve, so anyone trying to compete with them is going to be seen as either futile if they're a small fry like D2D or evil if they actually could stand a chance like EA.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Well that aint good if they're planning on beating MW3.

Majority of MW3 money (probably around 90%) comes from consoles. Even if Battlefield is developed primarily for PC, the low PC sales won't matter much in race against MW3.

Anyway, I'm not getting it through Origin, and I'm not getting a hard copy because of activation limitations. I'll review my other options later. If I as a customer don't see an option that suits me I won't buy it. It'll be just another EA game I didn't buy. Fuck EA.

 

[ph0b0s123]

EA is being a jerk about this. They are alienating a large community by not leting STEAM carry Btlefield 3.

Who said it's EA that are causing this. It is Steam who are not allowing it on. It is available on other on-line services, so it's not like EA have made it Origin exclusive. It's Steam throwing their toys out of the pram due to EA having a competitor to their service now. Steam fanboys need a reality check. The sun does not always shine out of Steam's back side....

This whole situation is disappointing as lets availability is bad for the consumer. But lets get the blame in the right place....

 

[aashell13]

This (mainly) steam gamer isn't coming to BF3...

also because the battlefield series is basically all multiplayer, and i'm a cranky misanthrope who only does single-player.

 

[aashell13]

Who said it's EA that are causing this. It is Steam who are not allowing it on. It is available on other on-line services, so it's not like EA have made it Origin exclusive. It's Steam throwing their toys out of the pram due to EA having a competitor to their service now. Steam fanboys need a reality check. The sun does not always shine out of Steam's back side....

This whole situation is disappointing as lets availability is bad for the consumer. But lets get the blame in the right place....

No one has been entirely forthcoming about the nature of the disagreement between Valve and EA. EA will only say that something in the steam TOS limits their ability to interact with customers. Now I'm not quite prepared to call this a baldfaced lie, but I do lean strongly in that direction given EA's history of treating their customers like criminals.

However, all of the above would be moot if I was confident in EA's ability to build a service which functions anywhere near as well as steam does. Unfortunately, the two things EA's online services seem best at are not working and giving me high blood pressure.

 

[bob1052]

Well that aint good if they're planning on beating MW3.

That's a very good point actually, they'll desperately need the steam sales to put them over the top, in the PC market at least the difference is huge.

Why would they care about the PC sales? The PC version of the COD games regularly manages to sell almost as badly as the Wii version. Like, barely a million.

Because COD owns the console market. Battlefield has no chance of unseating COD as the best selling console game ever.

But, just like you said, COD doesn't have shit on the Battlefield brand on PC. It was pretty much guaranteed to outsell COD big time on PC, now not so much.

Unlike COD, Battlefield has a majority of its brand recognition and loyal players on PC.

Does this have any basis? Like, at all? Battlefield 2 came out 6 years ago, and didn't have a console release. Whether PC gamers want to admit it or not, the sales don't lie - the market has changed since then. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - I'll remind you, the most recent game under the Battlefield name released on the Pc, Ps3 and 360 and thus the game that it makes sense to use to measure the so called majority of brand recognition and loyal players - sold 2.3 million on Ps3, 2.9 million on the 360, but on the PC? 600,000. How do you look at that and think "the majority of the fanbase is on PC"? Consoles outsold the Pc version 8 to 1.

And if you're going to refute this, please bring some data that actually shows full sales breakdown data, don't just say "it says here the game sold 2 million more than you said, so clearly those were all PC sales that weren't counted".

I'm not trying to be hostile, but you seem to have falled into a trap of thinking the PC fans who talk about this game on the internet represent a bigger market.

Bad Company 2 was a sequel to a console only game and the only thing it shared with the Battlefield series is the name and the existence of guns. As flawed as you like to think of viewing Battlefield as a PC dominated brand, citing Bad Company sales just makes you look retarded.