False alarm. Seems only Crysis 2 is gone from Steam for the moment. Just screwy links on game pages and whatnot, my bad. Still, Crysis 2 being gone, and new games like Alice not being on Steam doesnt seem to be a good omen for the whole EA/Steam relationship

I can still find EA games on Steam just fine. Not sure what's going on on your end.

Probably just an EU store thing though. If this is really their plan, then.. I don't even.

This is a pretty dumb move by EA, if you ask me. I can (if I focus enough) that they may want to have some certain high-profile games exclusively on their store, but pulling their whole catalogue from the world's largest online store is... well, dumb.

PS: The games are still in the European Steam store, though.

im on the euro store and dont see any EA games besides Darkspore. I have Crysis 2 on my wishlist but when i press go to store it takes me to the main page
 
Neogaf steam thread is talking about it too, its not like im insane :P well...not just that at least ^_^
 
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Yeah, games are up on the North America store too. OP must be doing something wrong.

You're wrong by the way, I saw them all on there

Games are still available in Canada

im in europe and its fine for me

If they do pull them... that's incredibly stupid.

thats what i see, darkspore and 8 trailers, thats it. 1-9 things when i go to EA on steam. weird, maybe its a bug on my end, but like i said, they are discussing it on the Gaf steam thread so its not just me (i dont post there so i didnt start it heh)

@DeeGee: 42 games? Mine shows 122 games. Plus 9 more when using the Electronic Arts TM version.

Hmm. I was about to call BS, but now I'm getting it too. I had seen games earlier, but now they are gone.

I'm in Europe and I can see plenty of EA titles.

Opinion: Maybe you should contact Steam Support

i can go to the actual games stores tho so you guys are right... except Crysis 2. that one does seem to be gone. Can anyone check Crysis 2?

Crysis 2 is missing, but the rest are there.

@Rhaknar: Choose the Electronic Arts that doesn't have TM beside it. There are two entries.

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Electronic%20Arts

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Electronic%20Arts%E2%84%A2

edit: wow the new editor sucks when using links

http://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Electronic%20Arts/ here is link to prove that ea games are still up

i can go to the actual games stores tho so you guys are right... except Crysis 2. that one does seem to be gone. Can anyone check Crysis 2?

EA trying to compete with Steam is like throwing a baby into a snake pit.

Grizzly.

EA trying to compete with Steam is like throwing a baby into a snake pit.

Grizzly.

@Rhaknar: Choose the Electronic Arts that doesn't have TM beside it. There are two entries.

hmm crysis 2 is gone, just tried to access it through a bourght copy, clicking the store page link and it just takes me to steam store. odd

Also, I don't see why you don't want to use another service like the EA Store. Either you have some weird sort of loyalty to Steam or you're just too lazy to buy the games you enjoy.

All the recent PC games I own from EA are co-linked to my Origin account anyway in case I ever lose access to my Steam account. Redundancy is great.

This means I can buy from Impulse, D2D or (ugh) Gamer's Gate, and as long as they're from EA, I never have to use those other clients to download or play the games.

Also, I don't see why you don't want to use another service like the EA Store. Either you have some weird sort of loyalty to Steam or you're just too lazy to buy the games you enjoy.

i guess im lazy, really for me i like having all my d2d games in one place.

I don't think it's fair to compare them yet, give Origins time to mature. We should have this discussion in six months or a year, Steam was pretty bad when it launched.

@Mr_Skeleton said:

I don't think it's fair to compare them yet, give Origins time to mature. We should have this discussion in six months or a year, Steam was pretty bad when it launched.

But Origin is just a rebranding of the same old EA Store. It's not a new service that just launched.

I don't think it's fair to compare them yet, give Origins time to mature. We should have this discussion in six months or a year, Steam was pretty bad when it launched.

It seems like a stupid move. They should just use Origin for limited / deluxe editions :s

As long as I get my mass effect 3 and bf3 on steam. Fuck EA's store, they can go die.

@Mr_Skeleton said:

I don't think it's fair to compare them yet, give Origins time to mature. We should have this discussion in six months or a year, Steam was pretty bad when it launched.

I think you're missing the point.  People don't really care how good or bad Origins is.  People don't want another service period.  

i have a hard enough time remembering 1 password, let alone multiples. plus i like to have all my games in 1 place. And i like to have my credit card in 1 place, not several. I could go on.

Looks like they pulled Crysis 2. If they really are trying to pull all their games from Steam I guess I just won't buy the PC versions of their game anymore. GOG and Steam are the only Digital Distribution systems I use on PC and that will continue to be the case even if EA remove their games.

@YoungFrey: Steamgamesales.com lists sales and price drops for the major digital distribution games services including the EA Store/Origin. Every price conscious PC gamer should have it in his/her RSS feed reader.

@Meowshi said:

@Mr_Skeleton said:

I don't think it's fair to compare them yet, give Origins time to mature. We should have this discussion in six months or a year, Steam was pretty bad when it launched.

I think you're missing the point. People don't really care how good or bad Origins is. People don't want another service period.

Im also perfectly happy with Steam but competition will only benefit the customers and do good for Steam and Origins.

@YoungFrey: Steamgamesales.com lists sales and price drops for the major digital distribution games services including the EA Store/Origin. Every price conscious PC gamer should have it in his/her RSS feed reader.

@Rhaknar said:

so, when they announced Origin they said Star Wars Old Republic would be Origin exclusive but didnt mention other games... but if you do a search of EA games on steam today, every game except Darkspore is gone (darkspore happens to be the midweek sale), all thats left is trailers. Aggresive for sure on EA's part, but will it succeed for them? I for one don't intend to use another download service on my PC, so all this does for me is that I won't be getting any more EA games on PC I guess. what about you guys? do you think this is risky? smart? downright insane?

I was about to make a treath about this -- Aparently that´s the case.. I have no problems with Games for Windows Live, I like achievments and they download tool is decent enough.

BUT MAN I WON´T BUY A RATASS OF EA STORE.

Nobody saw this coming?

The big publishers will definitely want their own DD site to cater to their own games only.

Sooner or later Activision is going to do it. They already did for Blizzard stuff.

@Meowshi said:

@Mr_Skeleton said:

I don't think it's fair to compare them yet, give Origins time to mature. We should have this discussion in six months or a year, Steam was pretty bad when it launched.

I think you're missing the point. People don't really care how good or bad Origins is. People don't want another service period.

Im also perfectly happy with Steam but competition will only benefit the customers and do good for Steam and Origins.

ea store is more expensive than steam at present just throwing that out there

if EA actually stop supporting steam tho (lets see whats going on with Crysis 2 disapearing, but Alice never was on steam for example), and Activision follows eventually with some sort of battlenet store for their titles, Valve would have to cut their losses and give bigger cuts to publishers right?

@Pinworm45: To be fair, you don't need to have EA Downloader/Origin running to play games you own through it. Just have to launch the game once from it every few months to refresh the DRM or whatever.

@Pinworm45: To be fair, you don't need to have EA Downloader/Origin running to play games you own through it. Just have to launch the game once from it every few months.