A new rumour surfaced last week, suggesting that Electronic Arts would return to Steam. And yesterday, the publisher has shared a teaser video that all but confirms this. This video shows an EA steamy cup (get it? Steam, EA).
— Electronic Arts (@EA) October 25, 2019
At this point we don’t know whether EA will solely focus on releasing its backlog on Steam or not. Ideally, PC gamers would want to see all EA games (both old and new) hitting simultaneously Steam and Origin.
My guess is that EA will officially announce its return to Steam next week. I mean, it doesn’t make any sense to tease something like that if you are not planning to reveal it in one or two weeks time. Oh wait, that’s exactly what Warner Bros did with the new Batman game.
But anyway, so stay tuned for more!
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Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Sweeney the Wise?
Obviously yes, lol….
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But seriously though, why is Valve/Steam so relaxed about competition from Epic?(or if I’m wrong, what are they doing to compete with Epic?)
They are losing a tonne of revenue from the exclusives that Epic has gobbled up, so far.
I doubt players who bought through Epic are going to re-purchase the games on steam after a year.
Its just very odd to me to see a company more or less ignore direct competition like that.
Epic are only doing well due to Fortnight. People who are concerned about anti-consumer practices avoid or simply pirate Epic exclusives.
I don’t think that’s true. A lot of developers have reported who participated in the exclusive deals have reported a marked increase in their profit margins.
And again, people who purchase games(for example, parents of gamer kids) do not really care about stuff like drm and whatnot. They’ll purchase the game where its available, simple as that.
The problem is a developer reported, they are obligated to lie since they have contracts especially money money contracts, they were cought lying already about sales. Metro exodus perfect example.
I don’t think this is true. We only know about WWZ and Satisfactory doing well, because we only got sales numbers for these games. Metro Exodus and BL3 was “X times better” marketing talk that doesn’t say anything. THQ’s CEO litterally said that the absolute majority of revenue for Metro Exodus came from consoles for example.
For most games on EGS we didn’t get any sales info at all. I don’t think these games are doing well.
The nosedive of the 2K and Ubisoft stocks says otherwise.
Someone gets it. Never listen to mouthpieces. The stocks “can’t” lie. This is where the truth can always be found.
But 2k games are not on Epic store… Games like NBA 2k20 etc. are Steam exclusives, and Epic only got a one month exclusivity with Red Dead 2 so what are you talking about?
Borderlands 3
Well, at least 2 developers were caught lying about sales on Reddit to people when doing an AMA.
Your latter point is correct, a lot of people will just buy the game where it’s available, but the enthusiasts are the one who do all the free advertising when something works, really, really well….And negative PR has been working pretty well recently to hamper business for certain people, like with Battlefield V and Fallout 76.
All it would take is for one big push, and Epic Game Store would be dead….Like if EPIC were on US News being called out for taking communist money from Tencent, for example.
I have 2000+ games on my Wishlist on Steam. I am not going to run out of games to buy on Steam anytime soon and I will be buying the good EGS timed exclusives only when they come to Steam.
Well, IMO you’re a very small minority of the gaming public. 90% of the people who buy games tend to want to play the latest game as soon as possible.
I understand ur perspective though.
But from a business perspective, I still don’t understand why Valve would let that 90% demographic go that easily.
No. 90% of peasants.
how can peasants afford games though.
You’re making things up. Especially on pc, the majority of revenue is earned during the Steam sales, not in the release window.
fair enough. I didn’t know about steam sales.
I just thought that logically, getting 30% of 60 dollars would be better than getting 30% of 30 dollars
Pretty much my situation as well. I have stronger will power than a toddler, so I have zero problem in waiting.
Marketing and shady tactics simply don’t work on me, and I couldn’t be happier because of it.
I think waiting is the best option.
Jesus balls son how do you even scroll your wishlist? I have like 550 on mine and it defeats the purpose of even having the wishlist.
Jesus sh*t son how do you even scroll your wishlist? I have like 550 on mine and it defeats the purpose of even having the wishlist.
steam’s f2p revenue alone on a daily basis outweighs anything from epic, uplay, battlenet & origin combined, not to mention steam sales, regular day one purchases, etc..
True
they don’t have to compete. trust me on this one..
They really aren’t. Epic isn’t direct competition either. They aren’t selling the same games Valve is except a few like Subnautica.
The vast majority of the exclusives Epic ganked didn’t sell well either. Metro Exodus is a niche game, Outer Worlds is a niche game, the biggest one is Borderlands 3.
If Valve/Steam ignores direct competition it might be because they don’t think Epic is a threat at all.
It is probably because many users still have most of their games on Steam? Anyways, Epic isn’t interested in real competition because if they were, the store would have a lot of basic features.
Very cool indeed. Now with increased sales on Steam maybe EA can dial back on the lootboxes and microtransactions and maybe even start making Single-Player only games again.
Hahahaha. Wow, that’s about as wishful as thinking gets.
No offense really but, no, that’s not going to happen.
Fair enough, yep. I’m sure they will do everything they can to cut the legs out from under it though.
They already screwed over Respawn with their marketing and handling of Titanfall 2, in order to hurt them and lower their value for acquisition which came shortly afterwards.
EA tends to play the long game. Short-term setback, for long-term gains.
EA is pretty nasty when it comes to studios they acquire. Often buying them out just to shut them down, and lessen the competition, squash the promising indie markets.
Really is evil how they function.
I would pick up both Jedi Fallen Order and Need for Speed Heat if they came to Steam since they are both SP and have an offline mode.
Honestly… and this may sound insane I truly feel like the Live Services and MP games with micro-transactions days are numbered. I would give it a year or so and you will see AAA forced to focus on what we want.
If this return to Steam is legit and real the writing is on the wall that the model that EA is following does not work and they have to change. I am with FasterThanFTL and really want to believe in the change. Time will tell if the joke is on Me and the rest that feel the same way.
i dont like EA, but i think they have done something good in this last 5 year. SOMETHING is the key word.
and that’s why Steam needs a curated library
TFOH. “Curated library.”
Another casual peasant crying about their own inability to use the COPIOUS features Valve has programmed so that they DON’T see all these “trash” games in the store.
I barelly use the store, because I know what I want (and I go to DRM-free storefronts first anyways). But when I go shopping I don’t like to enter to dirty, shit-filled stores, is disgusting
Please show me a screenshot of your personalized store page on Steam, showing all this sh*t you see when shopping on Steam.
Also if you want curation, there are dozens of excellent curators to follow on Steam.
Good news indeed. I stopped buying EA’s games when they left Steam. Ended pirating Dead Space 3, which would be nice to pay for.
I haven’t pirated any, but there are certainly a few I would pay for if they found their way to Steam.
Last EA game I bought, was ME3. I can’t even be bothered to pirate their trash.
Not that I care that you do. I couldn’t care less about pirates. I’m not about to try and pretend I have moral high ground, and preach to you.
PC gamers aren’t pirates, they only pirate what’s not on Steam.
Which is pretty reasonable, since it’s the only shop that has a reason to exist.
fuc**ng sh**t u’re right! cheers https://media0.giphy.com/media/km1r0Bd48d76o/giphy.gif
I mean not really. Last time I pirated a game was June 2014 because I literally didn’t have internet or a job so I couldn’t be buying games anyway. I bought those two games I pirated as soon as I did have net and haven’t done it since.
If a game isn’t on Steam and isn’t coming to Steam, it’s dead to me. I will play metro exodus and outer worlds and stuff, sure, through game pass. But I’m not going to even give them the impression that I want the game by pirating it.
That said the last thing I bought on Origin was ME Andromeda, which is terrible. BF5 and Anthem I played through Origin PRemier, which I cancelled.
I only play games that are on steam, lol I aint buying on some sh**ty client that has no features, I rather pirate it, but I dont since its not worth the effort lol
Dead Space 3 and EA’s creative interference with it is literally the reason Visceral is gone. I don’t know why paying them for it would be nice.
thank you for trying to bring us good news john pepega but unfortunately EA doesn’t have any game that i’m interested in and if they did, i’d pirate it instead of buying it.
Hey I hate EA, but if I can get dragon age 2 and 3 on steam I m all up for it along with mass effect
So Origin is a failure?
Ofc it is, i guess even they knew
Origin was a mistake in hindsight. But I can understand EA had to try to capture the PC Digital marketplace at that time when Steam was not in as dominating position as it is now. I am talking about 2011 Steam. 2019 Steam is unbeatable and there is no point in competing with it anymore.
“2019 Steam is unbeatable and there is no point in competing anymore.”
Nah i can’t agree with that part. Apple, Nvidia, iHOP, Spotify etc are all GIANTS that have multiple competitors. You never give up because of how big a corporation is or how much market share they have.
I would never in a million years want a monopoly to exist (no matter how many services it offers). I’m hoping GOG 2.0 starts getting its recognition (hopefully when it’s fully released with the launcher integration it’ll take off).
Trust me steam already won why ? simple better features and the library of games is just too big, not to mention a community of millions of players around the world. No other launcher can have such community as this.
” No other launcher can have such community as this.”
Apple were in the same position as Steam. Literally had “global” dominance (in every aspect). Yet Android still pushed and look at where they’re both at now.
You have to push, provide better/alternative/new features, grow your community and etc. It takes time but history has shown it can be done.
Origin is like work of two IT students. Bad ones, that made it against their will in their spare time
Most people have no problem whatsoever with Origin. There’s no reason to. It has thoroughly functional achievements, cloud saves, storefront, friends, chat, good sales, exclusives, and a subscription service.
They just aren’t going to make as much money through Origin forcing people to use their thing when everyone already has Steam.
We were annoyed by it when it came out in 2012 but it’s normal now, just like Steam was annoying for the first 3 years (not supporting Epic here – Valve wasn’t selling third party games until 2006 when the store was mostly fine). I would prefer Origin not exist but in all honestly, I literally haven’t opened Origin on purpose since probably chapter 2 of Battlefield 5 Tides of War whenever that was.
The failure is that EA is incapable of making a game that isn’t trash since 2013 and arguably since like 1999. Dead Space and ME franchise were exceptions (and they ruined ME after the first one, too). EA got where they were by buying good developers, milking their IP for all it was worth, and shutting them down – including their own first party IP.
Dude stop it origin was dead on arrival, useless platform with 0 community lol
Good news “BUT” it’s EA afterall
i thought just old titles,maybe stadia are part of this move ? cause there is something weird after all these years they jump back into steam
This is supposed to make a difference in our opinions of their trash “games”? I don’t care where they sell them. They’re still s**t.
Okay that’s your opinion. Maybe some here don’t like origin and would like for EA to release their backlog to steam. I mean it’s not ALL bad.
Todays trash games, but not the old ones
just give us proper new Sim City and CnC games.
Stopped caring about EA games a long long time ago, but if priced decently I guess I could buy Titanfall 2 for the campaign, which I’ve always read greatly about it.
MY guess is if they do add their post-Origin games back to steam like ME3, they will be completely devoid of features like achievements or DLC in order to drive people to buy them from Origin instead so they actually get the full product.
that or they’ll likely just enforce the install and use of Origin, whenever you launch their games from Steam, a la Uplay.
If they do add their games back to Steam, and I mean everything since Origin so ME3, Andromeda, DA3, BF3/4/5/1/Hardline, Burnout Paradise Remastered, SimSh*tty, Sims 4, they’re probably not going to let you transfer your key. So , I’m not paying for another copy of any of those, except ME3.
someone should tell that fat lazy russian guy who goes by the name of fitgirl to IP ban poor peasants who always throttle the download speed of the new torrents, god your lives are absolutely pathetic if you can’t afford a single $60 game.
just imagine their pathetic south east asian lives, probably living in some small smelly shethole and making our lives hell because theirs is dog shet, fcking kunts.
why is he larping as a girl anyway
it’s in the nature of human being to desire something that he or she doesn’t have, asians want big and colorful eyes, middle easterners want white skin, whites want tan skin and so on. whatever kind of male fitgirl is, he’s unfckable, meaning he can never get a girl so he wants to be a girl himself.
i know what i said sounds a bit gey but it’s true.
And they are coming back to their senses…I mean “where the money is” sense.
only origin only games I have is mass effect 3 and inquisition so whatever
But but but what about Origin?
Finally, i was dreaming of playing battlefield on steam.
They have some good old games. This is a good news.
I dreamed to have mass effect and dragon age trilogies I hope they all get on steam
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This is a good decision EA…some good coming from you after a loooong time!
People over on Twiiter are like “awww heeeeels yeah, woopah!”, and I’m here like:
“you know you’ll need two clients to run EA games right?.”
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Like, who wants to have to run and use two sodding clients, to launch and run one single game?.
Also this is EA literally tired of being lesser than Steam, so they have to go poach it’s users via Ubisoft’s Uplay tactic, because it actually worked for Ubi, and it’ll work for EA, for those that somehow refused to install Origin, but somehow think they’ll buy those games on Steam, then magically cut off their nose and pretend like installing Origin wasn’t a big deal, when it was to them before.
When I say I’ll never install and use EGS, I actually mean it. Those that claimed the same for Origin should completely ignore and see this news as being utterly worthless (because it really is when you look at the big picture).
It was nicer without them.
Would be cool to have Unravel on Steam.
Yay? Now we get more crap on Steam.. as if we didn’t had enough already.
This comes from a HUGE 2000-2010 EA fan. Sad how they end up. Pretty much like Blizzard now.
Interesting for sure.
I think their games on Steam will still require Origin.
99.9% likely in probability. Ubisoft pulled that tactic and it’s worked out for them easily, even when they pulled deals with EGS, it drove ppl to their client over EGS, and that also worked out for them, so my guess is EA is going to do just that, just to poach and stick it to Steam.
But, that doesn’t quite make sense…With Ubisoft and EGS, people were pushed to uPlay because uPlay is the better platform in comparison to EGS.
I don’t think people would abandon Steam to move to Origin primarily. All it would do is give EA more business…..not unless they do what Ubisoft did exactly which is offer a method for acquiring 20% discounts freely via earning in-game achievement points.
But then again, as much as we should dislike EA and Ubisoft combined for as many reprehensible tactics they’ve pulled in the past; They really haven’t had bad PR at all, but that’s probably because people are buying their games less and less I feel. At least I am. Either that or people have really short memories.
That’s the thing though, you need Uplay to run Ubi’s games, so why would EA just release all their current games on Steam, but not require anything to do with having to use Origin?.
It worked well for Ubisoft, and Origin isn’t in the same crappy league as EGS either, so they can in actuality, afford to enforce it when you launch one of their games from Steam.
Ubi is also well off like EA, they had zero reason to make the EGS deal besides more money, and we know EA isn’t going to turn down making more money either.
Everyone isn’t going to up and go from Steam to Origin, that’s a pretty big reach in all honesty. What I was getting at here, is that EA *wants* to poach Steam users. It’s spent years with Origin, and well, them coming back to Steam sounds like not enough users were building up on their end of things, so now they seek to poach more users from their competition.
Even then, whatever deal Ubi shoves out, I’m still not going to buy their games from their client. If you sell on Steam, you let me use Steam alone, no strings attached. That’s why I don’t even see this EA coming back as a good thing, because I know they are very highly likely to pull a Ubisoft. See, when it’s Ubi on Steam, it’s always a two client deal for launching one game. Atm it’s a one client deal with EA, but once they hit Steam, it’s their way or the highway.
Both EA and Ubi are short memories for me, because both don’t really make what I want, as well as with no strings attached.
Ah, yeah. I get what you mean.
I thought you meant though that if people bought their games on Steam, with the secondary install requirement being Origins (Same as Ubi does with Steam and uPlay or EGS and uPlay) that overall people might just skip Steam and buy the game on Origin anyway either to save time or money (hence my comparison to Ubisofts discount system if you buy direct from uPlay).
But yeah, they’ll definitely set it up as the exact same deal with Ubisoft with uPlay, as a secondary DRM.
For me personally, I’d learn to live with that, even though I don’t really buy from EA or Ubisoft either, anymore, because it would just be a few extra seconds after clicking start, and overall the game would be launched through Steam and such anyway and it makes it a little more convenient.
I wonder how well GOG Galaxy 2.0 will do.
For me, I already use Origin, so I wouldn’t be buying the game on Steam, but at the same time, I wouldn’t buy it on Origin either, because look at BFV right now, still not a great game and it still costs £55 for the base game.
This instantly tells me that EA doesn’t care about me getting a good deal, just as long as I’m using their client and am registered. Just look at MS’s huge, insane focus on Gamepass, compared to some yrs ago, when they were spouting XBL attach rates, but they aren’t doing that this gen, because Sony has that court.
Galaxy 2.0 will function as a game client that launches other games, yet those other clients will also need to be installed and remain signed in. I highly doubt CDP gets the keys to the gates, where they are able to launch all other 3rd party client based games, without having to sign into another client or having said other client installed.
I bought ubisoft games on steam, didnt care about uplay nor will I ll care for it later, same with origin, if its not on steam I rather pirate it or just ignore it
If this fkin sht happens, this changes nothing then. Fk Origin.
So does that mean games will load faster? Hahaha
Excellent business strategy to get more users to install Origin.
9/10 LAL
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Isnt this a bad news for your master Mr Tim?
Huh, kinda interesting. Origin was a fair attempt but it just isn’t that great.
And going with Steam and not Epic would no doubt get EA the best PR they’ve gotten in years.
Not when in the past 5 years destroy what little good will you have for greed it seems 😀 Going to steam is smart move considering they failed completetly
Must be feeling a little desperate? A sure way to target and annoy even more people?
Steam be like, thats right get back on that pole