Battlefield 3 not coming to Steam

I guess this is similar to normal retailing distribution practices though. Everyone wants to do it, everyone tries, and only the best ones survive. If that remains true, then there's hope. I don't think EA will ever be the "best one" as long as Steam's around, and BF3, no matter how awesome it is, won't carry Origin.

actually to hell with origin, its retail for me

Great job EA! You proved your worth as a greedy, stupid game publisher. Have a f**king snowcone...

EA shot themselves in the foot big time. Steam is The digital distro service.

no steam = no buy. i'll get the ps3 version, origin is crap.

ergh... EA wont be happy until they own everything. So have to run steam for all my games and origin especially for battlefield. If it were any other game I would skip it but battlefield3 no chance

It was obvious after Origin came out to daylight,no?

Ugh why split everything up....it was all fine with one distribution service. Stupid money grabbing EA!

all I can think about is Sony getting Sucker Punched !

This is a stupid idea. Most of Battlefield 3's fanbase is on Steam. Why would you risk trying to sell your game to an audience of 30 million people just to try and promote your own service? It's ridiculous, just put it on Steam, EA.

Didn't we (and by 'we', I mean everyone) already know this?

Good riddance.. Steam is just an overhype from Half Life 2 days of Counterstrike. ^^

I suppose PC users have just cause to be pretty... *takes off sunglasses* ...steamed? YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH......

Yeah... given the previous EA games didn't have any form of Steam interactivity aside from automatic patching, I seriously don't give a toss. Was going to buy it retail anyway since it would be at least 10 euros cheaper and not redeem into Steam because that hasn't worked on any EA games. But hey. Let's hate on EA for excluding Steam, for a reason we all know is because of Valve's new terms of agreements about DLC, while forgetting that Valve excludes all Digital Distribution nodes for their games. But I guess that's the perk of being first. You can do whatever you want. I like Steam as the rest of you lot, but this is getting ridiculous.

@zzamaro Well, EA doesn't make as much money on Steam games as they do on retail and Origin games because Steam takes a cut of the profits.

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don't think EA needs a application like Steam; it's one of a kind

With Origin getting launched I just assumed this was a given. It does aggravate me though that all the publishers seem to want to have their own digital distribution client. I won't use multiple clients. They need to all get together and agree on some universal format.

EA, u are really crazy!

But I like Steam :(

Guess I'm getting the retail version. I refuse to use Origin while it's in the messy state that it is now.

It seems EA doesn't like money.

@Richardthe3rd It probably is

As long as I can completely bypass Origin, whatever. Not happy about it but I'll just get it retail. If Origin is required, then I'm not playing BF3. I will not use that garbage. It's really that simple.

Not going to skip a game as good as Battlefield 3 just because it isn't on Steam, although it is a stupid decision.

@perkinsj26 hi :D

btw. how many of the players that own Bad company 2 has it on steam? i bet the majority

Origin sucks. Bad move on EA's part but whatever as long as i am not forced to use their shotty service when I run BF3 i dont care.

well count me out.... not getting it... dont fell like using their stupid origin crap.... going with the console version instead

not sure I didnt see this coming, feels like an odd move to me.

Oh, wonderful. Now I bet there's gonna be even LESS people on the PC. The version I'm going to get. I hope I'm not stuck with just a couple hundred people.