Popular titles such as Apex Legends can be played on Steam with EA's business alliance with Valve



Leading game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) has announced a business alliance with Valve , which runs the digital game platform Steam, and will distribute EA titles on Steam. Titles that have been exclusively distributed in the past on

Origin , an EA platform, will also be released on Steam.

EA and Valve partner
https://www.ea.com/en-us/news/ea-and-valve-partnership

So long, Origin? EA comes back to Steam with new games | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/so-long-origin-ea-comes-back-to-steam-with-new-games/


As the first of the business alliance, EA announced that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order , scheduled to be released on November 15, 2019, will also be released on Steam, a digital game platform provided by Valve. Popular titles such as `` Apex Legends '', `` FIFA 20 '', `` The Sims 4 '' and `` Battlefield V '' will also be distributed on Steam in the future, so that multiplayer of each game can be played together by Origin users and Steam users It will be. In addition, EA has announced that EA-Access, a paid game subscription service, will support Steam in the spring of 2020.

EA, which was initially distributed on Steam, announced in 2011 that it will exclusively distribute “ Battlefiled 3 ”, the latest title at that time, on Origin, an original game platform. Since then, EA has exclusively sold almost all of its titles at Origin.



However, compared to Steam, a long-established game platform that has been in operation since 2003, Origin was weaker in social functions such as friends and communities, and some gamers had a backlash when the network was not stable. In 2013, Andrew Wilson, executive vice president of EA, officially acknowledged the dissatisfaction with gamers and became a topic with a

statement that 'Improved Origin'.

After that, EA implemented various initiatives such as EA Access, a game refund function that was already introduced in Steam, and regular holding of free game distribution campaigns. But it is not possible to take the share of the game platform market, which is one strong Steam, Peter O'Reilly, senior marketing director of EA is the 'Origin is moving in order to regain the trust of PC gamers' in 2016 remarks Have

Technical media Ars Technica expects that EA's resumption of Steam sales will have a significant impact on Steam's competition with the Epic Games store , the game platform operated by Epic Games .



Epic Games has expressed the idea that `` the revenue share set by Steam is too low '' and `` prevent Steam's market monopoly '' should be raised, raising the revenue share to publishers, `` collecting expectations from game fans Using the method of making the title an exclusive distribution with a time limit in the Epic Games store, the team competed against Steam. Large game publishers such as Ubisoft and 2K Games have also chosen exclusive distribution in the Epic Games store.

Competition between Steam and Epic Games store intensified in PC game sales, `` The Division 2 (Division 2) '' decided to be delivered at Epic Games store instead of Steam-GIGAZINE



Since `` Shenmu 3 '' became the exclusive distribution of the Epic Games store, the dissatisfaction of Steam users exploded, finally responding to the refund of the investment-GIGAZINE



Also, Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox Software, who developed `` Borderlands 3 '', a timed exclusive title of the Epic Games store, commented that `` Steam will decline in another 5 to 10 years '' The




However, after announcing the release on Steam, the Epic Games store suddenly announced a timed exclusive delivery, and the Epic Games store also lacked various functions such as social functions like Origin Criticism has been gathered for the fact that the game itself is only distributed in the Epic Games store, but the game fan community uses Steam to exchange information, Some users have heard great complaints.

Ars Technica commented, `` The EA's decision to partner with Steam shows that Steam plays an important role as a 'means for getting games' for many PC gamers, “It is clear that EA is not in line with Pitchford's concerns,” he said.

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