Battlefield Tri-hard

[Ifafudafi]

hey, so, uh

"Battlefield 3 won't appear on Steam, retailer says"

[paladin]

about time game makers backed away from steam, they are ruining a great experience and making it twice as dear if you purchase from a store, then having stalled updates and no replies to email.well done EA hope activision follows suit.

.

[Amit]

.

That idiot has probably never used Steam for more than 5 minutes. Steam doesn't have stalled updates or lousy customer support. Steam game updates are usually delayed due to changes the publisher wants to make to the patch. If you can't wait one extra day or so for a game update, you should go outside and actually live your life.

[seanthelawn]

I remember when I first got BF:BC2, I got it through some EA download thing (the game was only like a month old and there was a sale somewhere for half off or something). The download/updates were painfully slow. When a new version came out my game didn't autoupdate, and since I didn't follow any kind of Battlefield blogs or anything I was unaware of the newer version. Because of this, I was still on the older version for a while and there were only like 10 servers, mostly empty. Took me a while to figure out I had to manually update, which as usual was horribly slow. As soon as BFBC2 went on sale for $5 on Steam, I got it. Downloads were way faster and it updated automatically. Not sure why anyone would prefer the shit EA service over Steam.

E: An example of someone with the problem I was having: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/431188.page

[paladin]

I dl'd crysis 2 on steam in 45 minutes, 8.6gis. I seriously doubt origin would be able to do that

[ThePlague]

Fuck them, better not be true.

[Amit]

Fuck them, better not be true.

.

[paladin]

Fuck them, better not be true.

Yeah because I cant go to Fred Meyer and buy it!

[arbiter901]

Was really looking forward to this, I night not even buy it now if this is true.
Might consider pirating it now

[Amit]

Was really looking forward to this, I night not even buy it now if this is true.
Might consider pirating it now

What would that gain you? 6-10GB of nothing. Battlefield is a multiplayer game. The Campaign may have some value to it, but people buy BF games because of the multiplayer. You can't play online if you pirate the game. And Jesus fucking Christ: you don't pirate a game just because it's not available on Steam.