EA games on steam

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=56404

It looks like publisher Electronic Arts may finally be jumping on the Steam bandwagon, as the EULA for EA Maxis' Spore has mysteriously appeared on the Steam site.

Though the EA-published Crysis and Crysis Warhead debuted on Steam earlier this year, the availability of the two games was negotiated by developer Crytek and Valve. Both were originally published under EA Partners label.

Should Spore make it onto Steam, it will represent the first internally-developed EA game on the platform. Other PC games from internal EA studios include Mass Effect, The Sims, Warhammer Online, the Command & Conquer series, and Dead Space.
Shacknews has contacted Valve for comment on the matter.



Thanks to reader Chris Evans for the tip.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Sadly it's only North America at the moment.

http://kotaku.com/5114573/ea-steam-hook-up-make-sweet-digital-distribution

"It's official. Electronic Arts has thrown in with Valve, cozying up to Steam with a half-dozen titles from its library, an announcement semi-spoiled by the sudden appearance of Spore earlier this week.

Now available digitally are Mass Effect, Need For Speed Undercover, Spore (and the Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack), FIFA Manager 09 and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. We'd consider that a big win for Valve, considering EA's kind of the competition with its own EA Store.
The official word tells us that Mirror's Edge, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 and Dead Space will join them "in the coming weeks."


We're still looking into the copyright protection measures employed on the EA catalog and hope that everything's hunky-dory. Thanks to Michael for the heads up."

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Steam Lanches EA Titles Across Europe
December 22, 2008, 11:07 am - Shawn Zabecki - Product Release
December 22, 2008 -- Valve today announced Spore(tm), Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Mass Effect(r), Need for Speed(tm) Undercover and EA SPORTS FIFA Manager 2009 are available now to gamers in most of Europe, 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(tm), Command & Conquer(tm) Red Alert(tm) 3, and Dead Space(tm), will be added to the catalog of EA's titles available via Steam.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com

 

[Soapy]

Do you ever get lonely, talking to yourself here in the PC section?

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I post these on two other forums.
The pc section for this one seems pretty dead outside of world of warcraft.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Only because everything anyone wants to play comes out on other platforms too, so the majority of the threads that include PC games are in the Multi-Platform forum. I'm playing Fallout 3 on the PC right now, if it's any consolation.

Anyway, more games on Steam is always good. Valve has managed to make a really outstanding platform for launching, installing, storing, and selling games with Steam. Hopefully, the addition of EA games will make some more people decide that PC is the way to go on them. Doubtful, but we can hope.

 

[Joker]

I actually bought Spore over Steam, as all that was stopping me before was the terrible DRM. Now that that's gone, I'm excited to get it.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Yea the people over the at the Bioware forums are always raging about DRM.
EA is suppost to be putting out revoke tools for the limited activations.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

There's 10-75% off everything in store today.(boxing day).
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Prince Of Persia is giong for £18.74 and Bioshock for £3.49