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Dragon Age 2 Gone from Steam, EA Insists Origin Is Not the Reason

Posted on Friday, July 29 @ 16:28:19 Eastern by Josh_Laddin
A few days ago Dragon Age 2 mysteriously disappeared from the Steam store, right around when the Legacy DLC released. If you've been keeping up with EA lately, you would assume the most obvious reason for that is their own digital distribution service, Origin.


History is repeating itself, because this same thing happened with Crysis 2 just after the launch of Origin in June. Back then, EA claimed that they had nothing to do with the decision and that it was all on Steam, saying that "Crytek has an agreement with another download service which violates the new rules from Steam and resulted in its expulsion of Crysis II from Steam"... before plugging the game on their own digital store.

It's a similar story today with DA 2. EA senior VP of global online David DeMartini stated, "unfortunately, Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to sell downloadable content." He hopes "to work out an agreement to keep our games on Steam", but at this point I really find it difficult to believe that this has anything to do with Steam's ToS. If the culprit walks like Origin and talks like Origin, then it's probably Origin.

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Related Games:   Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age 2: Legacy
Tags:   Dragon Age, origin


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  • Imnickson
    Imnickson
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
    This is EA attempting to "watch" what its consumers play so they can market to them better. And it's Steam saying you don't need to have any extra information on your consumers. Thanks Steam!
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  • sandineyes
    sandineyes
    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
    Now if only Steam would adopt a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers slap drm on their games.
    0 1
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 7:31 pm
    Thats a shame because they were good partners even offered download for the game early then release of finalization on actual date
    0 1
  • jcannell
    jcannell
    Joined: May 2007
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
    Agreed; seems like a way to get their new platform off its feet. Question: will their future titles require you to use Origin? I know that's how steam got popular, requiring installation of the software with popular titles such as Half-Life 2. EA is so gay. Gay gay gay.
    2 1

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