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EA: "Valve Is Run by Clever People."

Posted on Monday, October 3 @ 11:15:20 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

In a quote with GamesIndustry, Jens Uwe Intat, Head of EA Europe, believes that EA's relationship with Valve will continue to be healthy, as long as it's about Valve letting their product be published and distributed by them:

Valve is run by very clever people, and I would say that's also true for Electronic Arts, we're all good business people. So, Valve, when they're looking for distribution for their products, looking at which publisher could actually do that, then I think we're the best publisher on the planet, both in Europe and North America.

There's no strain on that relationship because we're competing in one space... I think, as an industry, we're pretty good at competing and co-operating at the same time.

Peter Moore, in a full interview with Gamescom, Peter Moore has no problems with Steam... except for one caveat:

We want to be able to support our customer directly. If there are opportunities to do that, then we'll do that. If Valve, through Steam are willing to allow us to do that, then there are no issues whatsoever. In the instances where you're not seeing a game on Steam, it's primarily because we can't deal directly with our consumer to resolve issues and do things we want to be able to do.

[Source 1, Source 2]

Tags: EA, Valve, Origin, Steam

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 11:21 am
Sounds like they just want to get into your computer...

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Mistaza
Joined: Oct 2007

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 11:23 am
Sounds like EA is still steam-ed that they are not the origin-al electronic distributors.

Oh man do I need to sleep.

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tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 11:28 am
Nominated to The People Speak.

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Bretimus_v2
Joined: Jan 2009

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 11:58 am
I'm pretty sure my dad would make that joke....oh look, Tiny liked it.

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 1:55 pm
This ^ Gets my TPS Reports

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tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Oct 4th, 2011 at 12:00 am
@Bretimus_v2 should I call you sonny from now on?

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tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 11:44 am
To borrow a little from Mistaza. EA has Steam-ed a lot of people, Valve doesn't seem to Steam anybody, except those who what a faster pace of game releases. Then this clown says: “Valve is run by very clever people, and I would say that's also true for Electronic Arts, we're all good business people.” Good business people don’t make a habit of pissing off their customers like EA does. Valve is owned and operated by clever people, that are also good business people who try to keep their customers happy. Steam has it haters, and those who love it, but just about everything does.

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xxmrcyanidexx
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 12:22 pm
EA scares me. They watch me go to sleep. They project the Madden NFL 12 cover featuring Peyton Hillis of the Cleveland Browns and the new Player Perk system onto my ceiling when I go to sleep.

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OdiousLupous
Joined: Jul 2011

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 1:35 pm
They also have been stealing money from your mothers purse and your sisters period is late 8 days, wink wink nudge nudge.

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TurinAlexander
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 4:18 pm
I'm just going to go right ahead and nominate this for the people speak.

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TurinAlexander
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 4:19 pm
To be clear, it's xxmrcyanidexx's comment I'm nominating. Seriously need an edit feature for comments by the way.

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WILLS_COOL_MODE
Joined: Oct 2010

Posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 at 3:18 pm
"So, Valve, when they're looking for distribution for their products, looking at which publisher could actually do that, then I think we're the best publisher on the planet"

But... do they not realize Valve has been publishing their own games for a while now? And that they aren't looking for distribution... BECAUSE THEY ALREADY HAVE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ONLINE GAME DISTRIBUTION SERVICE? It honestly blows my mind how much this guy has no idea what he's talking about.

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Ashalar
Joined: Jan 2008

Posted: Oct 4th, 2011 at 1:32 am
EA did have its own digital platform before, right? The required-to-buy-expansions platform EADM. A must if you ever wanted expansions for Battlefield 2 or an assortment of other games. Cumbersome to use, games/downloads were hard to manage through the use of the tool. Overall: not all that good.

And now EA acts all high and mighty like they have the best thing on the market.

I fear that EA will be all brawn and no brain on this one. Their tool hasn't hit the market yet, and already they say that they are better than anyone else in the biz. It seems part of their new business strategy: talk a lot of **** about their competitors. Time will only tell if EA bit off more than they can chew on this one, but as a proponent of STEAM and a user of EA's previous digital distribution platform I am already having difficulties stiffling my laughter.

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Ashalar
Joined: Jan 2008

Posted: Oct 4th, 2011 at 2:51 am
Corrected: Origin is already available. Hmm I wonder why I didn't pick up on it yet...

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WILLS_COOL_MODE
Joined: Oct 2010

Posted: Oct 4th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Trust me, your point still stands. The vast majority of people either hate Origin or simply can't be bothered to care about it because of Steam. EA really is talking out of their collective ass.

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Flavorysoup
Joined: Oct 2011

Posted: Oct 20th, 2011 at 12:35 am
I really hate origin. I tried it for the battlefield 3 beta, and it was horrible! Okay, so when you launch a game, it doesn't launch the actual game, it launches a web browser where you join the servers. Ad when you want to download a game, click download, it launches a web browser, and you have to download from the website. I want Battlefield 3, but not enough to deal with origins.

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