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Valve and Steam Want EA Back

Posted on Thursday, August 18 @ 13:26:03 Eastern by

It's not secret that gamers are in love with Steam. It's just about the only form of DRM they'll accept. As a publisher when your games are kept locked down and your customers can't even tell, you'd be in love with Steam too. So what the hell, EA? You guys were so good together!

Valve's Gabe Newell has been pretty upfront with reporters at Gamescom that he and his platform want EA's games back on their service. Instead of standing outside with a boombox at EA's Redwood Shores offices, Newell took to reporters as the original boombox:

I don't think Valve can pick just one thing and think the issue would go away if we fixed that. We have to show EA it's a smart decision to have EA games on Steam, and we're going to try to show them that. Companies have to earn the right to install content on their customers' PCs on a regular basis. The same thing is true of Steam. We have to prove we are creating value on an ongoing basis, whether it's to EA Or Ubisoft or whoever.

If you want my opinion, EA should totally get back together with Steam. That new guy they're with is lame and a jerk.

I think at the end of the day we're going to prove to Electronic Arts they have happier customers, a higher quality service, and will make more money if they have their titles on Steam. It's our duty to demonstrate that to them. We don't have a natural right to publish their games.

Immediately after speaking with reports, Newell texted "i miss u" to John Riccitiello.

[Steam]
Related Games:   Battlefield 3
Tags:   Valve, EA, Battlefield, steam, drm


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  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Aug 18th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
    So possibly a make up sex Steam sale?
    0 3
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Aug 18th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
    That was probably the humblest ' We are going to ****ing destroy Origin' I have ever heard.
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 18th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
    Nominated for the people speak.
    0 1
  • Wedgington
    Wedgington
    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 1:37 am
    Origin and Steam arent currently competiting markets since Origin is only selling EA published titles and Steam no longer has any. I think the only real interesting part would be seeing how many people chose to transfer their steam EA game keys over to Origin.
    0 0
  • Merlin
    Merlin
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Aug 18th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
    Humble and yet classy in being the bigger man then EA is being right now.
    0 1
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 18th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
    Taking the high road is always the best bet.
    0 1
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Aug 18th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
    EA I love you please come back to steam so I can get your games cheap as hell!
    0 1
  • Wedgington
    Wedgington
    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 1:44 am
    I think this is Newells not so subtle way of saying, "We're still open to negotiations, comne talk to us" Valve will likely be trying to tred a careful line whilst we see how successful Origin is, If it has siginificant uptake (which the release of BF3 will no doubt help) Valve may be worried that other major publishers may go down similar routes creating their own social digital download services, Microsoft tried it with games for windows live but got it badly wrong.
    This is clearly the future of PC gaming, Valve have the huge advantage of getting there years before anyone else and securing a fiercely local fan base. Looks like it is going to be a very interesting end to the year its all down to whether the majority of gamers (not the loudest) take to having publishers using their own systems and if they would rather have it all in one place.
    0 0
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 7:32 am
    I don't think many publishers will feel the need to invest so heavily in their own PC platform with that market shrinking so rapidly as it is. I think EA is a special case and they've got a certain large PC-specific game on their hands and they wanted to make a go of it. It seems so odd to cut Steam out of the loop when so many other Digital Download platforms are still selling Battlefield 3.
    0 1
  • Wedgington
    Wedgington
    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 8:06 am
    Those platforms don't have the social side that Steam offers, people purchasing BF3 from them will have to use origin for that aspect, cutting steam ensures an immediate boost to Origin users, EA must be very confident in their product to take this risk, hoping that the users BF generates create a loyal fanbase similar to steams.
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  • Wedgington
    Wedgington
    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 8:09 am
    Those platforms don't have the social side that Steam offers, people purchasing BF3 from them will have to use origin for that aspect, cutting steam ensures an immediate boost to Origin users, EA must be very confident in their product to take this risk, hoping that the users BF generates create a loyal fanbase similar to steams.
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