Recently Valve and Electronic Arts have been having difficulties maintaining their relationship as publisher and distributor. EA has alluded to recent policy changes as the sole catalyst for the company to be pulling some of their games from Valves distribution service, Steam. The company has also announced that one of their biggest games of 2011, Battlefield 3, won't be offered on Steam when it releases this fall. Gabe Newell recently made his first public comments on the situation at Gamescom, in a interview with Develop. The Valve founder is hoping to mend the issue with Electronic Arts, and that his company has plans to show EA that it is a smart business decision to have their games on Valve's platform.
Gabe didn't get into too much detail about the precise reasons that EA and Valve are at odds. It was also recently announced that Battlefield 3 will require a connection to EA's Origin Network for all PC play.
OnTopic: Most of the good games from EA are already on Steam. Bf2 is on there and Bf3 is coming no matter what. There are dozens of EA games already on Steam so I don't know what they are trying to do.
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