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Mass Effect 3 Won’t Use Steam

Posted Jan 14, 2012 at 5:41PM EST by Mr Pham

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.

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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.

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"so perhaps Steam may need to look at their ways and take a change of heart"

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).

# RE: Mass Effect 3 Won’t Use Steam — Druidium 2012-01-14 23:32

Sorry but dlc is not a good thing for gamers since most dlc is crap! It is good that we have one company standing up for gamers rights to buy the whole game out right and not have to worry about dlc later.

# RE: Mass Effect 3 Won’t Use Steam — jazneo 2012-01-15 01:47

well duh it a EA game they trying to beat steam

# tut — g4lson 2012-01-15 06:20

The only restrictive thing about steam policy is that they want all dlc to a said game to be available on steam as well, while EA wants to confine it to their site. If anyone should rethink their policy it's EA. Now, I know Valve wants 30% off every sale, but I'm sure they can negotiate something for mutual satisfaction.

# RE: tut — jazneo 2012-01-15 12:36

Quoting g4lson:

The only restrictive thing about steam policy is that they want all dlc to a said game to be available on steam as well, while EA wants to confine it to their site. If anyone should rethink their policy it's EA. Now, I know Valve wants 30% off every sale, but I'm sure they can negotiate something for mutual satisfaction.

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

# RE: Mass Effect 3 Won’t Use Steam — zanz 2012-01-16 03:58

this also is since ME3 and crysis2 and dragon age 2 all now require origin to installed. ubi and thq both go with steam and use them for the game and not for all dlc and even ea with the sims and bc2 did not use steam for all dlc and they did not care, then ME2 had the Cerberus store and steam did not care.

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.

# RE: Mass Effect 3 Won’t Use Steam — annonymous 2012-01-17 12:27

doesn't matter for me

360 >>>>>> PC, go ahead, troll away

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