EA issued a statement late yesterday addressing the situation involving Valve and Dragon Age II being removed from Steam. Here’s what they have to say:
At EA, we offer our games and content to all major download services including GameStop, Amazon, Direct2Drive and Steam.
Unfortunately, Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to sell downloadable content. No other download service has adopted this practice. Consequently some of our games have been removed by Steam.
We hope to work out an agreement to keep our games on Steam.
I hate to admit it but they do have a point. I’m not saying that EA’s recent behavior is any less reprehensible than Valve’s… but neither company is looking very good, here.
I’d say Valve is to blame lately, whining about getting a percentage of DLC sales… FFS, Valve get’s enough from the initial sale anyway.
That being said, I hate paid DLC. (Unpaid DLC used to be called a mappack or a patch)