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EA Blames Post-Release Policies For Crysis 2′s Disappearance From Steam

Electronic Arts has followed its claim that Steam “expelled” the EA-published Crysis 2 with an explanation that some EA games will not be available over Steam, the leading PC download service, because of a dispute over how they are patched and updated. This comes, of course, a month after EA opened Origin, its own digital download service.

June 16, 2011
PC

EA Says It Was Valve Who ‘Expelled’ Crysis 2 From Steam

EA and Crytek’s Crysis 2 was available on Valve’s Steam service until this week. Now it’s available “only on Origin“, Electronic Arts’ new digital store (and a few others, actually). Despite the change and conjecture about the motivations behind it, EA says it was not behind the decision to pull Crysis 2 from Steam.

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