Gamers find the best intellectual property wherever it is for sale
By Mike Jackson



EA's SVP of global e-commerce David DeMartini has said that Valve's refusal to sell certain EA games via Steam is not a big issue for the publisher.

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Major EA titles such as Battlefield 3, Dragon Age II, and Mass Effect 3 have not been sold via Steam due to issues that arose earlier this year regarding new Steam restrictions on the sale of DLC or other exclusive content on competing digital services.

"There's been many quotes and misquotes with regards to who did to what to who and who took what off what. We've not taken a single title off of Steam," DeMartini told Gamespot.

"Certain titles have fallen out of compliance. Crysis 2: Maximum Edition actually brought, if you will, Crysis back into compliance by virtue of all of the content being contained within that product, so there wasn't some additional download that had to happen only on Steam."

DeMartini says the titles in question haven't been affected by their lack of Steam support. "Those three titles have done fantastically on Origin and every other download site where you can get access to those games.

"Gamers find the best intellectual property wherever it is for sale," said DeMartini.

"That said, we're very supportive of having our intellectual property for sale on as many sites as we can. Obviously, we'd love to have those titles up on Steam, but unfortunately, those titles don't follow the rules that Steam has so therefore those titles are not up on Steam."