Mass Effect 3 for PC Will Not Be Available on Steam

[mookiemookie]

During initial release Mass Effect 3 will be available on Origin and a number of other 3rd party digital retailers, but not on Steam at this time. Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to deliver patches and other downloadable content. We are intent on providing Mass Effect to players with the best possible experience no matter where they purchase or play their game, and are happy to partner with any download service that does not restrict our ability to connect directly with our consumers.

http://www.ripten.com/2012/01/14/mass-effect-3-for-pc-will-not-be-available-on-steam/

In related news, I won't be buying Mass Effect 3.

[seaniam81]

Wont affect me. I was planning on getting it from GG or Retail.

[Drewcifer]

Haha, yeah this was to be expected, EA is pretty much just going to push everybody over to Origin. If you buy EA games on Origin you get free stuff, or in game content that you wouldn't get from other digital download services, and further now they have black listed Steam so the largest competitor is out now all future EA titles.

[mookiemookie]

The joke's on EA. I have 70 games on Steam and I'm not switching to a new digital service just because one is not available on it.

[darius359au]

EA's reason for not having their new titles on steam and only for origin start to look a bit crap when all their major competitor's are quite happy to leave their games on steam and release new titles on it - If the way steam handles updates and dlc was so restrictive as ea claims ,you would think activision ,sega 2k and all the others would have walked away as well! ,real reason is ea wants all the money for themselves ,though if you think about it ,it has to have cost ea more to set up their servers and everything else for origin than they would have saved by not paying a percentage to Valve:hmmm:

[Rilder]

Doesn't effect me. Never played or wanted to play any of the Mass Effects, just another linear storyline series. If I want to know the storyline I just watch a Let's play, funner that way.

EA is pretty horrible these days anyways, not as bad as Activision or UBI but still pretty horrible.

[Egan]

Doesn't effect me. Never played or wanted to play any of the Mass Effects, just another linear storyline series. If I want to know the storyline I just watch a Let's play, funner that way.

EA is pretty horrible these days anyways, not as bad as Activision or UBI but still pretty horrible.

I tried to play the first one three times but always reached a point where I couldn't be bothered continuing. That's me speaking as a huge RPG fan who had been crying out for A decent sci-game since the last Knights of the Old Republic came out.

I'll stick to Steam. It took me years to get over my objections to it and it works for me just fine.

[Arclight]

As long as I'm not forced to install and run yet another client, I'm happy.

[Takeda Shingen]

EA's reason for not having their new titles on steam and only for origin start to look a bit crap when all their major competitor's are quite happy to leave their games on steam and release new titles on it - If the way steam handles updates and dlc was so restrictive as ea claims ,you would think activision ,sega 2k and all the others would have walked away as well! ,real reason is ea wants all the money for themselves ,though if you think about it ,it has to have cost ea more to set up their servers and everything else for origin than they would have saved by not paying a percentage to Valve:hmmm:

I assumed that the claims of restriction were just an excuse to promote EA's own digital download service.

[AngusJS]

As long as I'm not forced to install and run yet another client, I'm happy.If Mass Effect 3 is like Battlefield 3, you'll be forced to install and run another client.

I held off on BF3 because of Origin, but eventually gave in. So far it hasn't been a problem. But I won't be buying anything on it.

[Biggles]

Really think it's rather odd when I hear people go "not on steam=no dice".

I'm not gonna get Mass Effect 3 anyway, no matter how it is released. I haven't got much interest in the series, even though I got the first two games recently.

But if I was interested, I'd get it anyway. Origin is just what Steam was. The only difference I see through a practical standpoint is that Steam has been around longer and had a longer time to snare itself around the market...

[Takeda Shingen]

But if I was interested, I'd get it anyway. Origin is just what Steam was. The only difference I see through a practical standpoint is that Steam has been around longer and had a longer time to snare itself around the market...

All of which is terribly ironic given that my first game on Steam was Empire Total War. If EA was smart, they would never have let Creative Assembly get away.

[mookiemookie]

Really think it's rather odd when I hear people go "not on steam=no dice".

I'm not gonna get Mass Effect 3 anyway, no matter how it is released. I haven't got much interest in the series, even though I got the first two games recently.

But if I was interested, I'd get it anyway. Origin is just what Steam was. The only difference I see through a practical standpoint is that Steam has been around longer and had a longer time to snare itself around the market...

The benefit to using Steam for me is to have everything in a centralized location, and not having to worry about discs getting scratched, lost, losing the CD keys, etc etc. When you start adding in multiple services, then I have to worry about remembering which email address I used to sign up, what the password is, forgetting about the service altogether, services going out of business, merging (example: Gamefly and Direct 2 Drive) and it becomes a big damn headache all over again.

I've settled on Steam. They're big enough that they're not going anywhere, they have their claws into me for 70 games and however many thousands of dollars that is, and I'm not changing.

[Gato76]

As long as I'm not forced to install and run yet another client, I'm happy.
Origin is required for the PC versions of Mass Effect 3, both physical and digital. http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/8975536 , i wont be buying this one, imho this series are overrated.

[Biggles]

The benefit to using Steam for me is to have everything in a centralized location

Well that's what my harddrive is for, and I used it just for that long before Steam came along and forced me upon it when I wanted to play the Total War games, for instance :O:

I see the benefits of Steam, but I also see the disadvantages. And to me, Origin is neither better nor worse. I seriously don't understand why it should be a deciding factor when it comes if one will buy a game or not. It's the product itself that matters, not the distribution of it.

[mookiemookie]

Well that's what my harddrive is for, and I used it just for that long before Steam came along and forced me upon it when I wanted to play the Total War games, for instance :O:

I see the benefits of Steam, but I also see the disadvantages. And to me, Origin is neither better nor worse. I seriously don't understand why it should be a deciding factor when it comes if one will buy a game or not. It's the product itself that matters, not the distribution of it.

I was a bit underwhelmed by ME2, to be honest. It felt less like a game and more like a movie. The battles were easy, there were waaaay too many cut scenes. It felt like a "press this button here to make Shepherd be a jerk, press this one to be a nice guy." Oh, battle time, "hold this button down until all the bad guys are dead." It just didn't do it for me on a game level...more of an interactive movie.

I can wait on ME3 until EA caves and puts it on Steam. I can also wait for the price to go down. Maybe at Christmas.

[HunterICX]

The point is biggles,

do we need another resource hog in the background? Do we need another user name and password to remember? Do we need another app that ties games to an account?

would you go for a Steam 2.0 which isn't compatible with your games your already have on Steam so you have to either repurchase them or switch back and forth between 2 apps?

No...
and the reason EA gives that they won't be releasing their new titles on steam is bull...but if you ask me it's not a big loss.

HunterICX

[Biggles]

No, ofcourse we don't need it or want it, but that's the way it is, and I for one don't think it's such a big deal. If I was interested in ME3, then this wouldn't stop me from buying it. Something else might, but not this.

[mookiemookie]

do we need another resource hog in the background? Do we need another user name and password to remember? Do we need another app that ties games to an account?

Exactly. Plus, new systems create new problems. Steam works as advertised with a minimum of fuss. It's when game companies start trying to tie their games to some other system that things get all balled up. The Games for Windows Live fiasco causing lost saves with Batman Arkham City is still too fresh in my mind.

[Task Force]

Oh well, I liked the first game, but the second one seemed... lacking, was thinking of getting it but to be honest, im afraid of how bad it will be.

[Task Force]

You want to know whats even more amusing? Even the demo, requires origin.

[Dowly]

You want to know whats even more amusing? Even the demo, requires origin.

Err... like SteamWorks game's demo would require Steam? :O:

[Task Force]

Err... like SteamWorks game's demo would require Steam? :O:

Yes, but its origin, so its evil ea!!!!!

[Dowly]

Yes, but its origin, so its evil ea!!!!!

Exactly :DL

[Highbury]

When Steam was relatively new I remember lots of complaining abut "I won't buy it if I have to use Steam!!! :wah:" Now it is "I won't buy it if I can't use Steam :wah:".... I find it funny.

[HunterICX]

I'm a bit like that but for a different reason when it comes to hardcopies that is.

Here in Spain they do like to dub the game over, for me that ruins the game big time so when the game requires steam I'm actually quite happy since I'm able to change the language in Steam.

HunterICX

[Drewcifer]

I don't see a disadvantage to steam, I just don't. As for Origin let it be the downfall of EA, I played Mass Effect, loved it thought it was a great game. Mass Effect two was after EA and Bioware became one and Bioware started to suck... flashy graphics make a game, thats all they care about, push it out and make sure it shines.

Dragon Age was OK, Dragon Age 2 was a horrid abortion. I can almost without a doubt tell you Mass Effect 3 will be the worst game Bioware has ever made.

[Falkirion]

Because EA have more of a hand now than they did with the original and 2. ME2 was a let down for me, I liked stuffing around in the inventory in 1.

But the whole Origin vs Steam thing for ME doesn't effect me. Started on console and I'll be finishing it there too.

[seaniam81]

hmm... I loved ME1 and ME2 and Dragon Age 1. I'm looking forward to ME3.

[HunterICX]

I don't see a disadvantage to steam

I see one, that's Multiplayer through Steam when they're having a maintenance :O: it's always on that time you try to get a game going with friends.

HunterICX