The pc version of Crysis 2 is not longer to get through Steam. Alice: Madness Returns is not available from the downloaddienst. The games are via other download services are available and are also on EA’s own Origin.
Electronic Arts announced a week ago, during the E3, its own digital distribution channel, Origin. Director John Riccitiello called the service a cornerstone of the strategy of the publisher to focus more on the games that online be played and distributed. Now seems to be, leave EA no grass grow. EA is going to directly compete with the large sample of Origin. So is shooting game Crysis 2 no longer on Steam are available, while on Origin. The game is also to be found on lesser-known digital channels like Amazon, Direct2Drive, GamersGate, and Impulse.
For action game Alice: Madness Returns, that this week in the store, the same applies. The pc version of the game is not through Steam but through Origin and other digital channels. EA has Steam, however, not yet fully under the spell done. A number of other EA games this year have appeared, is still in the Steam catalog, including Bulletstorm, Dragon Age II and Shift 2 Unleashed. During the E3 was EA announced that later this year to appear mmog Star Wars: The Old Republic only through Origin to get will be, to make the platform a boost. According to the first messages is Origin not cheap. Where Crysis 2 on Steam for $ 50 was offered, the game on Origin for 60 dollars. Also Dragon Age II for $ 60, offered.
Update June 16, 9:15: EA has now announced that not they, but Valve has decided to allow the sale of Crysis 2 via Steam to cease. Valve has the terms and conditions for sale through Steam tightened and Crysis 2 no longer meets the new requirements, according to EA. The reason would be that Crytek also a deal has closed with another downloaddienst and that is Valve.
