Monday, August 3rd 2020

EA's Move to Steam Makes its Games the Most Played on the Platform
EA has recently decided to break away from the exclusivity of its games on Origin game launches and started to offer some games on Valve's Steam gaming platform. The move has turned out to be quite substantial for EA and Valve just reported some big news. Out of the top 20 best-selling games on Steam for the month of July, EA games accounted for eight of them. This rather massive share is all thanks to the new markets EA opened themselves to. Without a doubt, Steam is still the world's biggest gaming platform, so it was a smart move to expand the availability of games to it. The financial gains follow as well. EA saw a massive 74% surge in PC revenue it is a quarterly report, all thanks to expansion to Steam.Here is the list of top 20 best-selling games on Steam:
Source:
TweakTown
- Sea of Thieves
- Crysis 3
- Dragon Age Inquisition
- Need for Speed Heat
- Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
- Satisfactory
- Battlefield V
- Journey
- STAR WARS Battlefront II
- Persona 4 Golden
- Torchlight III
- Griftlands
- Desperados III
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Beyond: Two Souls
- Detroit: Become Human
- Outer Wilds
- The Sims 4
- Titanfall 2
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
31 Comments on EA's Move to Steam Makes its Games the Most Played on the Platform
Imagine if Steam (if it's the one you want to be the only one) goes offline for some reason. What would you do ? Search for non-infected cracks to play the games you paid for ?
You just own the ability to use the games, you don't own nothing more, just accounts. If your account gets banned for some reasons, well, you would need another one to activate new games.
If you want to see all your games on one platform you can use GoG Galaxy 2.0 but it will open any necessary platform for you to play the games.
We cannot sell our games anymore on PC thanks to Steam and the CD-key activation process...having one platform only is not a good thing in my opinion. Especially a DRM focused platform.
Steam told me I might be interested in TS4 which I already owned through origin so I decided I'd go play that for a bit. I hop on over to origin where I'm told there is a huge sale on DLC and the base game, everything 50% off. But wait .... I go back to steam where the base game and all of its DLC is being sold full price.
So let's say you bought the game on steam, you paid full price, downloaded the shitty extra launcher you didn't want , then you see that the game was on sale on the launcher you didn't want , so you go back to steam and refund the game because why would you pay more for the same thing, now you go over to origin, buy the base game and can also buy some dlc now too. So now when you want to play the game , you bypass steam and go to origin where they can advertise their games at a cheaper price to you to keep you using their store, which they don't have to pay a portion of the sale to anyone else.
Yet another nail in EAs and possibly Steams coffin. None of this is helpful it is just artificial inflation of users online. Now they can both say they get used more than EGS.