This news won’t be shocking for gamers who knew the scandal ongoing between EA games and Steam. Sadly majority of Steam users will be disappointed to know that Battlefield 3 won’t make its debut on Steam according to a recently posted list of Battlefield 3 digital resellers by EA.
The story is that Steam recently removed a bunch of EA games from their site due to some contractual infringement. They were later restored though but this of course made EA mad and EA Support even vaguely described their relationship with Steam in these words “When a download service forbids publishers from contacting players with patches, new levels, items and other services – it disrupts our ability to provide the ongoing support players expect from us. At present, this is the case with only one download service. While EA offers its entire portfolio to this site, they have elected to not post many of our games. We hope to find a mutually agreeable solution to this issue soon.” You can see the whole answer here which was in response to EA policy on selling games on third-party download sites.
The digital reseller list by EA has now disappeared from web and it seems like that it was taken down. This list also had EA’s new digital download service “Origin” as well as other third-party services like Direct2Drive and GamersGate but their was no mention of Steam.
Hopefully both parties will reach and agreement to bring this popular game to the Steam users as well which constitute of the majority of the PC gaming market.
Via: Joystiq