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/mas...able-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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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

[AngusJS]

Originally Posted by Arclight

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]

Originally Posted by Biggles

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]

Originally Posted by 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...

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]

Originally Posted by Arclight

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/to.../index/8975536 , i wont be buying this one, imho this series are overrated.

[Biggles]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

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

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.