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  EA Brings Spore, Warhammer Online, And More To Steam
by Eric Caoili
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December 19, 2008
 
EA Brings  Spore, Warhammer Online , And More To Steam
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Publisher Electronic Arts formally joined Valve's digital distribution platform Steam, bringing big titles such as Spore, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, and more to the PC-based service.

Additional EA titles now available through Steam on North America include Mass Effect, EA Sports FIFA Manager 2009, Need For Speed Undercover, and Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack.

The company also plans to make Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Mirror's Edge, and Dead Space available on the service in January 2009.

Other major publishers like Activision, Ubisoft, Take-Two, and Atari have long sold games through Steam, but until now EA was a notorious holdout. Previously, the publisher digitally distributed internally-developed PC games only though its own EA Store as well as Steam competitors like Direct2Drive.

For several years, however, EA has had a close relationship with Valve; the company took over as retail distributor of Valve's games following the severing of the studio's ties with former publisher Vivendi.

According to Valve, Steam claims over 15 million active user accounts around the world.

"We are pleased to extend our holiday titles to gamers worldwide via Steam -- a revolutionary technology that is one of the game industry's most successful digital distribution services," says EA COO John Pleasants of the deal.
 
   
 
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Phillip Baxter
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That's is incredibly awesome news! Especially if the steam version doesn't have the install limits and other DRM restrictions!

Tommy Hanusa
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HA HA!

I win!
Mass Effect will come to Steam!
I win! I win! I win! I win!
...

well ok, it's not planed to be on Steam yet, but It will only be a matter of time. Bioware put Jade Empire on Steam, so it will only take a couple of months for it to be put up there.

and even-though I'm not associated with Valve, EA or Bioware, I still win.

(now all we need is for MGS to jump on the bandwagon( excuse me, 'Steam-wagon'))

Richard Cody
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Microsoft needs to get their Windows Live feature to enable downloading games like Steam and Direct2Drive do now. For the next Xbox it should be a service like Steam where games max out at the specs they require otherwise they don't get on the service.
Plug your Xbox controller into a USB port if you want and that's essentially the only cost on the users end. Microsoft wouldn't lose money this way either on getting a console out there.


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