Newell: Valve wants to convince EA to get back on Steam

@Kibbles XIII
Another game about puppies?
FUND IT.

/coming to 3DS in 2012

@Kibbles XIII Who is the "bad guy" now???? well, guess Valve shouldn´t be worried, when people don´t use Origin then EA won´t have a lot of choices, we need to keep in mind that EA only reason to leave Steam is to take the market away from Steam, that´s something that is not really negotiable....

@Hunter141072

Having been in the Alpha, I tend to agree with you. I was not impressed with Origin. What I am impressed with is the way BF3 is shaping up in the vids, which leaves me thoroughly torn as they've said that even hard copies of the PC game are going to use Origin!! I've been a fan of DICE and they're games from near the beginning and have played nearly everyone which makes this an even harder choice!

@Kibbles XIII I like idea of puppy hats

If battlefield 3 goes on Steam, I guess that'll make my year.

I dislike using origin, the messenger never functioned correctly, Punkbuster always made me manually update, Punkbuster also kicked me until I disabled all my running programs (Anti-virus included...),

I have no friends who use origin, so I have to also log on Steam, Windows Live, Skype, Vent, Etc. But if I do, The stupid Punkbuster kicks me.

@nunami

I learn a lot from the differing approaches of EA and Valve.

EA: "It's Valve's fault that we want to spam everyone who buys our game. It's Valve's fault that we want to shut down online multiplayer for games after the customer has paid us for them. Steam is so restrictive. What are you looking at? Get mad at Valve!"

Valve: "Everybody wins if EA games are available on Steam. We haven't done a good enough job of showing that's the case, so we'll continue to work with EA to see how we can address their concerns."

@copa
It's why people love Valve and simply don't trust E.A.
One has an attitude of "what can we do to make things better" and another has an attitude of "Everyone but me is a jerk!"

@Schwiizzz isnt punkbuster in the steam versions as well?

@nunami I would prefer BF3 to come to Steam. I mean how many game services do we need clogging up our resources at one time. I am all about competition but Valve has my games and they are not doing anything wrong. So lets hurry it along to steam.

@ShadowXIII Oh relax, I trust Valve to have good reasons for the delay. They've yet to disappoint.

@ShadowSoldier89
Yeah.. EA are likely to go DRM free, and they would definitely care enough about both PCs and the customers to make Origin better than Steam. Give me a break, if you hate Steam enough to actively search for competitors for the hell of it, then it will take the industry a long time to come up with something on even equal par.

@Haggard congratulations, you completely misunderstood my comment

@ShadowSoldier89
I found no grammar faults, so i'll let you have this one


...You Troll >_>

@ShadowSoldier89
I think a lot of us understood your comment as it was typed.

Now if you meant something different, then congrats are in order for you cause you didn't get what you think you meant across.

@Haggard EA will never go DRM-free.
As much as they try to deny it, they are directly competing with Steam because they didn't like some features of Steam that seemed restrictive to them. They are trying to get other developers interested in releasing on Origin as well, and you can see from a mile away that they aren't going to give their games to customers without DRM, apart from their older stuff on GOG.com.
They seem to have an increasing amount of control over their games, shown in the sequels to great Bioware RPGs such as Dragon Age and Mass Effect. DA2 and ME2 were not nearly as much to do with Role Playing as the originals were. All to do with accessibility.

WHERE IS THE INDUSTRY TRYING TO TAKE ITSELF?!

@2late2die

I don't think you know what you're talking about.

@Bubbameister33 i know he doesnt know what he is talking about.

@Fire Walk With Me
And I know that you both are pricks.

@remakeyourself
"or are they backing away from pc in general?"

yes, thats why they launched origin.

@(Unverified) i know,who wants to publish their own games on their own website? who does that? no Sims 4 :(

@b3n
even if it does get on steam you will NOT have one account. you WILL have to have an ea(origin) account. thats how they do. hell even if your on xbox or ps3 you WILL have an ea account. thats how they do.

@Protege420
You actually have a great point. All my EA games were tied to my Army email address, and when I got out a year ago, it was shut down. A few weeks ago I went in to play some BF:BC2 after a long break, and forgot my password. I will now never have access again to my Mass Effect games or my Battlefield games.

Yes, I know, I'm an idiot for forgetting my password. Who can blame me when each company requires a different set of requirements? Well, I do, but still.

@Protege420 it's much easier to log in to Steam,then log into EA than to just log into EA

I hate EA, but it's their choice where they sell their games and if they choose their own store you can hardly blame them. It's not like any of you would do it any differently.

@sammo21

I believe you are right but that doesn't mean EA isn't either. Even if this is all a scheme because they are lunching their own digital distribution service, I can't blame them either. Why wouldn't they? I own most of not all of my games on Steam and love it, but on the other end, I understand what EA is trying to do. Why give money to valve for distributing their games when they could make more by doing it themselves. If there is one company that can do it, it's EA. Their current portfolio of games is big enough to get people on board.

The funny part is how people cry like babies because they don't want to buy their games on Origin. I get a big "deja vu" episode when Valve launched Half-Life 2 and it was mandatory to install Steam to even play it. Yet the end of the world didn't happen and we are still here today. Hell, people even fell in love with Steam, myself included.

I too would rather have all my games at one place but this is still getting dangerous. Valve, like any company, are there to make money. If there are no competition, then the customers will end up paying for it. It's like when everyone thought Google was God and Microsoft was the even. Now that Google has money, they are applying the same dictatorship business strategy that Microsoft was doing in the 90ies. All companies are greedy and are there to make money.

@jsx92 Last I checked no one cared about whether or not they sale on Steam but making bullshit excuses about why they are pulling their products from a service that shoppers have chosen. In the end it will be EAs problem and Ricotello will have to answer to shareholders about why consumers aren't purchasing these PC copies like they should have.

@Guibs
Except Steam DOES have competition, in the names of GOG, D2D and Impulse

@Sage009

Of course they do, but if you were to listen to the crybabies here, they would all rather these competition would fold and only steam remained.

@fid

Ctrl +

@eat it

does nothing

@fid try WinKey+

@exahex

does nothing

would it be so hard for valve to let us choose a larger font?

am i alone with this issue?

@Colorfuljosh
And DICE****

@Jackie Estacado
Wait, why can't you buy it from Amazon or Gamestop?

@The Only Girl
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't notice this: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/12/retail-copies-of-battlefield-3-will-also-require-origin/