Left unsaid are the exact terms of Steam's new policy. We hope to work out an agreement to keep our games on Steam.
Consequently some of our games have been removed by Steam.
No other download service has adopted this practice. Unfortunately, Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to sell downloadable content. We suspected as much yesterday when the story broke, but EA senior VP of global e-commerce David DeMartini puts the reasoning in no uncertain terms, even calling Steam's policies 'restrictive.'Īt EA, we offer our games and content to all major download services including GameStop, Amazon, Direct2Drive and Steam. EA has confirmed in a statement that Dragon Age 2 was pulled from Steam due to a conflict with Valve's new policy on downloadable content.
