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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Dragon Age II

Today bioware had its somewhat lackluster follow up to dragon age origins (10/10) dragon age 2 (7/10) pulled from steam. EA has done a lot of damage to bio ware lately; the pre EA games were all 9/10 or 10/10 but mass effect 2 and dragon age 2 were small let downs hopefully they can keep their money grubbing hands off of mass effect 3 and dragon age 3, and stop trying to add more combat less story and slim everything down. If I wanted to play a shooter(mass effect 2) or a platformer(dragon age 2) I would have bought a different game.
From ign
Dragon Age II was pulled from online games retailer Steam after the game's first downloadable expansion, Legacy, was released this week. 

It's believed that due the expansion being purchasable from within the game, and not the Steam client, that lead to Valve dropping the game completely. Dragon Age: Origins is still available, however. 

EA would not address the specific reasons for why Dragon Age II was removed, only saying it hopes to reach an agreement with Valve in the future. 

"At EA, we offer our games and content to all major download services including GameStop, Amazon, Direct2Drive and Steam," said David DeMartini, SVP of Global E-Commerce for EA in a statement given to IGN. 

"Unfortunately, Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to sell downloadable content. No other download service has adopted this practice. Consequently some of our games have been removed by Steam. 

"We hope to work out an agreement to keep our games on Steam." 

Last month, EA's Crysis 2 was also pulled from Steam after downloadable content was released for the game. EA denied any involvement with the move, saying it was due to a distribution deal for the DLC that violated Valve's agreement

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