Saturday, December 20th 2008
Steam Launches Hit PC Games from EA
Valve today announced Spore, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Mass Effect, Need for Speed Undercover and EA SPORTS FIFA Manager 2009 are available now to gamers in the United States and Canada via Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world.
In the coming weeks, Mirror's Edge, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, and Dead Space, will be added to the catalog of EA's titles available via Steam.
"EA is one of the industry's largest publishers," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "The EA titles coming to Steam this holiday include some this year's top PC titles."
"We are pleased to extend our holiday titles to gamers worldwide via Steam -- a revolutionary technology that is one of the game industry's most successful digital distribution services," said John Pleasants, President, Global Publishing & Chief Operating Officer.
For more information, please visit steamgames.com
In the coming weeks, Mirror's Edge, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, and Dead Space, will be added to the catalog of EA's titles available via Steam.
"EA is one of the industry's largest publishers," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "The EA titles coming to Steam this holiday include some this year's top PC titles."
"We are pleased to extend our holiday titles to gamers worldwide via Steam -- a revolutionary technology that is one of the game industry's most successful digital distribution services," said John Pleasants, President, Global Publishing & Chief Operating Officer.
For more information, please visit steamgames.com
17 Comments on Steam Launches Hit PC Games from EA
Hmmm and North America only sure it will change but ive heard that before.
Just as well too really, as with the quid's recent drop against the dollar the $49.99 games had started costing over £30, where the majority of them are now £26.99
Selling EA cra... I mean, games won't make Steam more popular in Europe right now so I guess it doesn't make that much of a difference if they don't sell EA games here at all!
Good luck to them in their future endeavors, to both EA and Steam!
# Allows items to be released at different dates in different regions. This is most advantageous in the case of movies, where the costs of localizing and promoting a film make it prohibitively expensive to release in more than one part of the world at a time. Regional lockout theoretically prevents consumers from obtaining the item "ahead of time" by buying the item from a foreign exporter. (For example, buying the DVD of the latest foreign hit movie before the movie has even reached local cinema screens.)
# Allows price differentiation between markets (localisation), thus increasing the potential revenue from worldwide sales and/or making products affordable in markets not tolerating the prices of other regions.
Downloading the game from Steam seems stupid to me. Why not simply download a pirate version instead since your downloading the entire game anyways ?
Please dont say its because of some crappy protection protocol, because ive been gaming for several years now and every single game ive ever bought or downloaded via Steam or its likes, has had its fair share of pirate users. There always seems to be a way around everything. So to me, this is just a stupid mediator that acts as a negative aspect to gaming more then a positive.
What happens to those that have limited bandwith limits or speeds. Why should we have to download the games everytime i format or change pc, or go somewhere . . . As for my achievments, the game company that joint with Steam can shove them where the sun dont shine.
One day, someone, somewhere (not me) will think of something more appropriate, secure and efficient.
One nice thing about buying stuff from stardock if you dont know is that if u buy a hard copy u can still download the game any time if you need to ;)
If you buy it online, same deal, no draconian install limmits or "must keep disk in drive to play" bullshit, "it just works" :)
EA games mean nothing to me also - DRM and steam's "offline-but-really-online-without-telling" mode mean that if anything I'd rather have a hard copy or a solid torrent.