One of the most controversial reports in the gamingsphere last June was the decision of Valve to ban majority of products that don’t adhere with Steam’s new policy. To summarize the issue, its all about Steam not accepting titles from publishers who are distributing it on other download channels (e.g: Amazon) which is the sole reason why EA made action and release Origin a few months later for its premium games like: Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2 and Battlefield 3, affected by this policy.

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Battlefield 3 on Steam Renegotiation

Last week, it was reported the two companies are in a re-negotiation phase and plan to make an exception for Battlefield 3 to become available on Steam. For today, eagled-eyed players have spotted two sources confirming this rumor might be real.

The first proof was spotted by xCowY from Steam forums in which he highlighted the BF3 PC installation folder along Punkbuster that shows

C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamAppscommonbattlefield 3…C:Program FilesSteamSteamAppscommonbattlefield 3

Hinting EA has already prepared for the game’s release on Steam just in case their negotiation turned out well.

The Sapphire Select Club (video-card distributor) is also running a contest and the prize for the winning contestants will be: 1 PC Game code for BF3 which you can redeem on steampowered.com with an SRP of 59.99.

So does it mean EA has already hinted its internal division to communicate BF3’s release on Steam?

Analysis and DLC Release Possibility

There’s a reason why EA still prefer Steam despite the creation of Origin. Obviously, one is the ginormous amount of players who are already registered on Steam and have run its client. Origin is only in the starting phase and in fact, we received several reports on the gamingsphere on how the client can’t handle the demand from PC gamers running BF3. Not to mention that some of its requirement like downloading a 50mb worth of file may come as a nuisance for other players who already have Steam on their machines.

Naturally, this doesn’t mean EA will abandon Origin and shift all of its games to Steam. As you can see from the report, Battlefield 3 is the only title being renegotiated. Looking at the situation, Valve views this as an opportunity as well since EA already confirmed Battlefield 3 shipped 10 million units in USA and sold more than five million copies to gamers worldwide on its first week. With that demand, I’m sure Steam can loosen some of its policy to pave way for the new king in town.

From what we can recall, the argument was Valve wants all DLC release to be launched on Steam. Well, since Karkand’s pre-order phase is already finished, we won’t be surprise if the future DLC release of BF3 will happen on Steam (or combined with Origin) depending on the outcome of this negotiation.

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