Another Electronic Arts game has been pulled from Steam, and EA says that Valve is once again to blame.
Last month, Crysis 2 disappeared from Steam, and the initial assumption was that EA had done it in order to secure an exclusive for the newly-rebranded EA Store, Origin. However, the game was still being sold elsewhere, and EA claimed the removal was not its doing, but Valve’s. An explanation for Crysis 2’s absence came later from EA’s David DeMartini, who stated that Crysis 2 was removed because its DLC was available through Direct2Drive, but not Steam.
Alice: Madness Returns, another EA-published game, wasn’t available on Steam at launch, but was added after a few days, prompting EA PR Director Amanda Taggard to say, “EA Partners and Spicy Horse Games appreciate Steam’s decision to sell Alice: Madness Returns.”
