You may have missed your chance to purchase shooter Crysis 2 on anything but EA’s new Origin service, the re-branded EA Store that aims to go head-to-head with the likes of Valve’s Steam platform. Crysis 2 has been yanked from Steam, with EA saying it’s now available “only on Origin.”
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While Steam is no longer selling Crytek’s futuristic first-person shooter, plenty of other digital distribution services—Amazon, Impluse, Direct2Drive, et al.—still carry the game, as spotted by NeoGAF user sflufan. Whether EA is targeting Steam only as a competitive reseller or the other means to get Crysis 2 haven’t been informed of the change we don’t yet know.
But many EA published games are still available through Steam, including this year’s Bulletstorm, Dragon Age II and Shift 2 Unleashed. Alice: Madness Returns, released today on PC, is also “only on Origin“—and Amazon and Direct2Drive. We would anticipate seeing the same tactic for other EA PC releases, like this year’s Battlefield 3
We’re asking EA what’s up.
