Crysis 2 and Others Disappear from Steam, EA's Relationship With Steam Unknown [UPDATED]

Correction... Valve is a bag of dicks?

Man, EA were actually starting to turn themselves around and now they are burning bridges like crazy. First the BF3 controversy, now pulling stuff off of steam and making it exclusive to Origin.

@ScaryGaryofAk said:

I can't wait to see origin become a failure and then ea going back to steam again lol

God make this true please!

This just seems like a pretty piss-poor, brute force method of making people use Origin; which is literally their download manager they've been using for a while now, rebranded. 
 
What happens to those people who own Crysis 2 on Steam now? What happens if and when EA decides to completely pull out of Steam?

So what's the deal for steam customers. Locked out of further patches and shit out of luck?

Interesting update.

I wonder what deal Crytek made with another service to violate their agreement with Valve.

I wonder if it has something to do with how DLC is handled in Steam now. I thought it was interesting that Fable III DLC is available directly through Steam day-and-date when it's a GFWL game. Maybe Crytek wouldn't play ball.

Wow, I had EA pegged as the dicks in this. Valve ain't looking too shiny right now in light of the update.

This sounds like some fishy business...

@Jeffsekai said:

Good move on EA. People seem to forget that Steam is run by Valve, a video game company and a rival for EA. I mean, can you even buy TF2 or other Valve games anywhere else other than Steam? Nope, double standards need to go away.

EA publishes the retail version of Team Fortress 2. You can buy TF2(for PC or any other version for that matter) at any retail store including amazon.

@Arubiano420 said:

@Shuborno: If so why are Battlefield and Alice also removed?

Were those games ever ON Steam to begin with? I don't remember seeing preorders, but I might be wrong.

Sucks for steam people, i don't buy digital i always buy physical copies, never cared for DD because i like to own my copy and not have to worry about bandwidth, bandwidth caps, services going down etc. I do buy DD if it's the only possible way to get it (console wise only) but always back the file up on a thumb drive and burn that backup on a dvd-r and make my own case.

Wow, I had EA pegged as the dicks in this. Valve ain't looking too shiny right now in light of the update.

Just as long as Mass Effect 3 is coming out on Steam.

And we'll see if this really IS something Valve is forcing upon Crytek / EA.

Why would other games be taken off of Steam then if it were just a contract with Crytek?

Ever since that deal with Portal 2 I've felt like EA is finding ways to eliminate Valve.

What did Crytec mess up this time? I can't believe Valve changed something so drastic. But we'll never know unless they respond.

I really wish the internet could just band together and agree not to ever purchase anything from Origin.  Go to a store if you have to, just don't buy their products off Origin.

Funny how people suddenly goes "Hold the phone. Surely Valve can't have been behind this? They're the good guys here!"

Ah, forget it, guys. Here's L4D2 for 2.50

I don't think Battlefield 3 was ever on steam to begin with. Same with Alice 2.

And lol @ the people saying "fuck you" to EA. Have none of you read the article? Mindless drones.

@PhatSeeJay said:

Funny how people suddenly goes "Hold the phone. Surely Valve can't have been behind this? They're the good guys here!"

But Valve is the best OMG.! :(

I bet there is more to this. Steam sells plenty of games offered on other services, so I am willing to give Valve the benefit of the doubt.

@PhatSeeJay said:

Funny how people suddenly goes "Hold the phone. Surely Valve can't have been behind this? They're the good guys here!"

well ... for a reason. Valve always have been the "good guys" as far as I can remember.

Fuck i wanna play Battlefield 3 but only on the PC and i wont do no fucking origin shit. FUCK YOU EA.

I will not buy Battlefield 3 no matter how cool it is if I can't get it on steam hassle free.

I wonder how many people who bought Crysis 2 on steam are SOL at this point. Also, is this the first game that's ever been delisted from Steam?
 
@slyspider: 
Same thing with me, unless they can offer the functionality of steam plus more, then I won't even bother with BF3. I'd rather buy MW3 with steam achievements instead. Even if EA did one-up Steam with Origin, I would still buy MW3 over BF3 on PC.

fuck origin.com  I prefer pirating before having to deal with that

If I don't see it on steam then it doesn't exist. I'm not installing fifty download services for fifty providers. Period.

@PhatSeeJay said:

Funny how people suddenly goes "Hold the phone. Surely Valve can't have been behind this? They're the good guys here!"

oh please, if this was REALLY something valve did, EA would have taken all of it's shit down.

Tinfoil hat theory: I wonder if Crysis was excluded by INACTION by EA. For instance, Steam updates their TOS and EA has to click-through agree for each title it sells. They don't click on agree for Crysis which results in removal.

That allows EA to say that they were excluded rather than having to say that they pulled it from the store.

@c0l0nelp0c0rn1 said:

I wonder how many people who bought Crysis 2 on steam are SOL at this point. Also, is this the first game that's ever been delisted from Steam?

The game called "80 Classic Atari Games in One" has been delisted because of compatibility issues with Win7. But It's still in my games list and I can launch it at any time, even though the Store Page link takes me back to the Steam homepage. And I was just able to delete then install it again. So chances are that people who bought Crysis 2 on Steam are still able to download and play their game.

The rest is insanity that doesn't deserve a response, like almost all of the shit in this thread.

@Laketown said:

@PhatSeeJay said:

Funny how people suddenly goes "Hold the phone. Surely Valve can't have been behind this? They're the good guys here!"

oh please, if this was REALLY something valve did, EA would have taken all of it's shit down.

Says who? Your superior business mind? We don't know what happened, and why, but everyone are still prone to just go "FUCK EA" over it. People don't give a fuck, they just want another reason to bash EA.

In a couple more years their download service will fail just like their old one did and they'll be on Steam again. This isn't exactly the first time they've done this.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/15/crysis-2-gone-from-steam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rockpapershotgun%2Fsteam+%28Rock%2C+Paper%2C+Shotgun%3A+Steam+RSS%29

nope EA are dicks

I'd love to see what a typical Steam agreement looks like. I bet they aren't quite the paladins of gaming virtue they are often made out to be. Steam's dominance gives Valve a very strong arm to dictate how other companies behave, and I suspect they aren't above using it.

This is so depressing!

I believe those business terms were, "We don't want to pay our competitor Valve every time we sell our game," which is too bad, because Steam is awesome.

Everyone with digital content of any kind: Do it like Steam! That's the right way!

EA did this fully knowing the terms they agreed to. Therefore they chose to break their legal agreement. Therefore, Origin.com can go fuck itself.

@dvorak said:

@Jack_Daniels I know it's hyperbole but it is pretty true for me as well. The only other service I use is Impulse, but that's only so I can play StarDock made games like Galactic Civilizations II which are exclusive to their own service.

How is that any different whatsoever? If anything Impulse is worse than Origin because you need to launch games from it. Whereas the EA Dwnloader (Origin) is just that: a downloader and installer. You don't need to have it running in the background like Impulse or Steam. And if you buy a first party EA game on disc, you can just enter your key to get a digital backup of the game added to your account for free. In fact the only game I bought form Impulse was Dragon Age, and I only did so because I could just register the key with EA and never have to touch the impulse client.

You act like there's a new password you have to remember, when EVERYBODY who plays videogames already has an EA account. I understand people would rather use Steam only, but when folks start listing things they'd rather do that have many more flaming hoops to jump through, you begin to question the integrity of these people's arguments.

@Jeffsekai said:

Good move on EA. People seem to forget that Steam is run by Valve, a video game company and a rival for EA. I mean, can you even buy TF2 or other Valve games anywhere else other than Steam? Nope, double standards need to go away.

You can buy most Valve games in stores, Team Fortress 2, the Half Life series, Portal, etc, among them, and guess what? EA publishes them! Weird, right? Perhaps what needs to go away is people sounding off about things they don't quite know enough about...

@Arubiano420: i agree, perfectly said

@MrKlorox: You don't need Impulse running in the background to play a game.

I don't trust EA

@c0l0nelp0c0rn1 said:

@Alphazero: Except it's not, because I not only have to hand over my $60 to EA for BF3 on PC, I also have to hand over my CC information, my e-mail address, and make a new password.

None of that is true. A: you already have an EA password if you've played any online enabled EA game in the past 5 years.

B: You just have to drop the money on a disc copy and enter the key in Origin once logged in and it will add the game to your owned list.

C: You can still add games to Steam and get all the benefits like screenshots and friends lists and all that shit.

@Xealot42 said:

@MrKlorox: You don't need Impulse running in the background to play a game.

Then I guess just Steam requires that now, which is even more counter intuitive to peoples rage.