Mass Effect won’t be on Steam

Mylinh Kwon on Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:00PM

It was initially announced that Mass Effect 3 will be available through Origin and a number of other 3rd party digital retailers. However in a recent confirmation from BioWare’s Community Coordinator, Chris Priestly it has been revealed that Mass Effect 3 will unfortunately not be making it to Steam due to Steam’s implementation of their new “restrictive terms of service”.

Adopting a new foundation platform, Steam aims to limit how developers interact with customers when delivering patches and other downloadable content. This new renovation has also caused EA to pull titles like Crysis 2 and Dragon Age 2 out from Steam earlier last year.

Steam are intent on providing their customers with the best possible experience despite where their players purchase or play the game. This new platform will allow Steam to partner with any download service which does not restrict their ability to connect directly to their consumers.

Chris also added, “Origin is required for the PC versions of Mass Effect 3, both physical and digital. Mass Effect 3 will require a one time, single authorization for the single player game. There is no limit to the number of installs. Playing Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer will require a constant connection. Origin is not spyware, and does not use or install spyware on user’s machines. In order to allow Origin to install games and their patches for everyone to use, Origin implements a permission change that results in Windows, not Origin, reviewing the filenames in the ProgramData/Origin folder. This is an ordinary Windows function, not an information-gathering process.”

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01/15/12 5:45 pm

I’m sure many people are upset!

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01/15/12 5:34 pm

Aww, that’s sad :( I’m sure Steam users will be disappointed.

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01/15/12 4:02 pm

that’s sad :(

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