Battlefield 3 not coming to Steam

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

Well, this makes the decision easier - I won't be buying it. EA will hurt greatly for not putting it on Steam, though I don't really care. It's EA after all...

 

[Akukaishi]

...and a great franchise with a promising future is planted six feet very firmly under by the publisher's own stupidity. *sighs* I had such hopes for BF...

 

[SamStar42]

Whyyyyyy can't it be on the platform wherein I already have all of my games? It's convenient, stop being petty EA, you're just going to lose customers as Steam is pretty much the only place I buy PC games.

Means I won't be getting it until Christmas or so then.

 

[Kair]

The EA devil wants to expand its territory.

 

[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.

As does citing the sales of a 6 year old game that was never released on consoles. So I'll ask again. What are you basing the supposed huge following of Battlefield on PC on, versus a substantial following of Battlefield that has now moved on to consoles and Bad Company 2 showing the proof of that?

And you're the one who called the PC Battlefield fans were loyal. If they were loyal, they would have bought a Battlefield game - they didn't.

1. I never cited the sales of BF2.
2. Every time you mention Bad Company 2 it just makes you look more retarded. Also it would appear you made up those numbers of BC2 not selling on PC as Dexter111 is saying.

I'm not trying to be hostile, but you seem to have falled (lol, fallen) into a trap of being an idiot.