Quick Jump Daily Digest
Thank you for your interest in the Quick Jump Daily Digest. Get notified of all new content on QJ in our free Daily Digest. To subscribe, enter your email address below and click the subscribe button.
Mass Effect 3 Won’t Use Steam |
Listed in: News Tags: BioWare, Chris Priestly, mass effect 3, Steam
Chris Priestly, the Community Coordinator at BioWare announced today that Mass Effect 3 won’t be running on Steam due to Steam’s terms being restrictive between developers communicating with players in terms of DLC and patches.
Instead, Mass Effect 3 will be available on Origin, and through a few other 3rd party retailers, which means that for a lot of you, and me, you’ll have to download and install a new client just for the one game.
The ‘restrictive terms of service’ also lead to EA yanking Crysis 2 and Dragon Age 2 from Steam, so perhaps Steam may need to look at their ways and take a change of heart. It’s not nice to see, especially considering Steam’s repertoire with players and developers alike being pretty damn good to date.
On the plus side, it’s good to see that BioWare are going for what they think is better for the game and gamers in the long run, instead of going the easy option and compromising some aspects of the game.
Anyone here looking forward to the game? I still haven’t got around to playing the games yet. Drown me, I know.
| 25% of voters think this story ROCKS! |
|
|
Comments
Oh sure. It's really the best for a gamer if he buys a game on steam or wherever and in order to get the DLC he has to sign up on a different site, buy some weird points, buying points again because the ammount is not flexible, buys points one more because the smallest possible ammount is to small and the largest ammount is too much with no fitting option in the middle, then buys points yet another time doing a inconvenient transaction for the fourth time now, then buys the DLC after finally having enough points, noticing that he has no use for his leftover points that he was forced to buy because the packages weren#t flexible enough, downloads the DLC, installs the DLC, activates the DLC and then finally plays the DLCs.
And in case he ever reinstalls or checks for corrupt files (a steam functio) he has to redownload and reinstall the DLC again.
Yep. That's much more convinient than buying the DLC through steam where the only thing you have to do is purchasing it (with money and not some stupid points).
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
they want the DLC avaiable on steam is because they want steam user simple way to get them wihtout going to dam webpage or download different file
Reply
what it comes down to is 1) origin is spyware and no1 wants it, and 2) steam will not let u put origin only games on its store. its got nothing to do with steam being restrictive its that EA wants u to have to use their store that sells other games and scans/uploads your HDD.
Reply
360 >>>>>> PC, go ahead, troll away
Reply