Battlefield 3 Won't be Coming to Steam

It should come to no surprise, but it's still kinda sad for users of online store/community/whatever-you-want-it-to-be Steam that Battlefield 3 won't be released on it. After all, EA (who publishes the game and owns the franchise) has just recently launched their own digital retail system, Origin, and EA games like Dragon Age 2 and Crysis 2 have been silently (or so EA wished) taken from the competitor.

 

The announcement came in a rather passive-aggressive way, with EA listing all the digital retailers that will receive the game, Steam not being one of them.

 

If you, like me, were waiting for the Steam version, you might as well give up.

 

Battlefield 3 will come out on October 25, with the special edition being sold for no additional cost as long as you pre-purchase it. The edition includes, among other things, rebuilt versions of Battlefield 2's best maps.

 

Bruno Sampaio, NoobFeed