A slew of different information from the publisher may not be the best news for gamers. First off is the recently released digital retail list (it has since 404’d) for EA’s much anticipated Battlefield 3. At first glance it contains the usual players such as Direct2Drive and EA’s own Origin service, but after a second look, there was one glaring omission: Steam.
We reported earlier about Crysis 2‘s disappearance from Steam due to contract issues, which EA has penned the blame on Valve. Yet the timing of it was most definitely not in EA’s favor. Despite EA’s ridiculous claims that their new Origin service does not compete with Steam, Crysis 2 still remains off of Valve’s service and the possible exclusion of a Steam version for Battlefield 3 makes it all the more suspect.
In some more bad news, EA has also announced the shutdown of online servers for a number of their older titles:
August 11, 2011 Online Service Shutdown
ARMY OF TWO™ for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
ARMY OF TWO™ Demo for Xbox 360
Battlefield 2142™ Demo for PC
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat™ for Xbox 360
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat™ Demo for Xbox 360
Medal of Honor Airborne™ for PlayStation Portable
Medal of Honor Heroes™ 2 for PlayStation Portable and Wii
NASCAR® 09 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (North America)
NCAA® Basketball 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
NCAA® Football 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Need for Speed™ Most Wanted for PC and Xbox 360
Need for Speed™ Undercover for PlayStation Portable;
SKATE™ for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 10 for PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 11 Demo for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360October 1, 2011 Online Service Shutdown
Madden NFL 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
NHL® 10 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Damage control EA. Damage control.
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Well we’re talking about some pretty old titles so it makes sense, considering their sequels are supported still (or will be, in the case of bf3).
And the whole steam vs origin deal has yet to be explained. I really wanna know what really is going on.
Yeah, I want to know what the deal is as well. I want to think it’s something with EA and wanting to have their own service to charge royalties, but then they go ahead point the finger at Valve. Something seems a bit odd and I still kind of want to put this on EA in some way or another, heh.
Remember EA runs all of these games on their own servers so it costs them money to keep them up and running. At some point it just becomes pointless to keep them going.
I want to like Origin, but EA is making it hard for me to do so. They say they’re not trying to compete with Steam despite clearly doing so and while EA does have good deals now and then, they are still limited to only their own products and they’re not really doing anything to make people want to use their service, instead they’re going to force it. Valve did the same thing years ago with Steam and people were angry about it then. EA should learn to actually compete with a company they publish games for.
Which is why I don’t get it. They are Valve’s publisher, so why this mess?
I dunno……this whole thing just stinks. Something is not quite right. I don’t understand it……but I get the feeling that something is “off” about this whole thing between Steam & EA.
I continue to grow more, and more worried the more I hear about BF:BC3. Whoops, I mean BF3.
I don’t see how BF:BC2 is that different from BF 2 other than jets been missing.
64 players
more realistic tactical map design
bigger maps w/ 3x as many capture points
jets
helis that dont blow shit
boats
anti-aa tanks
vehicle handling (especially helis) are 10x better
6 classes
medic doesn’t have a lmg… (dice must of been smoking dope)
6 per squad
commander (artillery, uav, scan, squad orders, supply drops, vehicle drops)
US, MEC, and China w/ specific guns/vehicles for each
prone… (still cant believe bc2 didn’t have fucking prone)
more but that should be enough to show anyone there is a reasonable amount of difference.
Another way to put it; Call of Duty and Bad Company 2 have more in common then Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 2.
^lots of differences, for one BC2 is complete crap compared, anyway i think people should compare BF3 to BF2142 instead of BF2
Good list 😀
I bought BF2142 the other day. Seems awesome, although I seem to get a lot of lag. No idea why though.
You haven’t found a decent server or you haven’t opened the needed ports. Trust me, 2142 needed a LOT of ports. So many in fact that my first router couldn’t handle them! lol
And that is why I never bought US robotics again.
I’ve never actually done port forwarding. Guess I should really.
That is quite the list, but as Atrum stated, many of those titles have sequels that are still being supported. As for the whole EA/Steam debacle, there are a couple of things that are obvious: Origin is meant to compete with Steam (evident by their removal of games from Steam) and BF3 will not be on Steam. Since it is obvious that Origin is a competitor of Steam, it would only make sense for EA to have it’s biggest upcoming title available on it’s own service, and not on it’s competitor’s service.
I personally never liked to play games over the steam. i like freedom of interting the disk. not being trashed by those ads and promotions that are annoying to people .
i have found Battlefield 3 Beta Access Page . Here it is . Check it out http://www.bf3blog.webs.com/