Why isn't Mass Effect 3 On Steam?

What he said, because of origin...

+1

Literally exactly what I was going to say.

A second after thread is created, user with absolutely the same avatar as OP has, comes and basically gives the only answer that is need to be given.
Mind=blown

whers the +1?

wow, lol.

yeah and cause of that the ea games are the only games that i play but never buy =I

Mind=Blown

bahahahhahah true story

Honestly the whole business is confusing anyways; if it was DLC, then why is ME2 available on steam when it's DLC is not sold via Steam either? If they say, officially, that the demands Steam had did not fall inline with an already existing contract, I believe it's what they said. 'Hating on EA/Origin for the sake of liking Steam more' or pulling assumptions as to why it's not on Steam is non-nonsensical when it's in their best interest too to have the game offered via Steam considering the pure percentage of the DD market Steam holds.

Added to that, people seem to keep forgetting: even if it WAS available on Steam, Origin would still be required. Not only for MP, but also for the singleplayer DLC verification every time you launch.

"Gabe wants even more money and order us to make Steam-Store-version-of-DLC"
Strange thing to say about a person who only releases free DLC. Meanwhile, there's a donate option in BF3.

http://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Electronic%20Arts
.. plenty of others.

Welcome to business, 2012.

This comment is so anti-market, I don't even know what to think!
(Every fast food place should be at every fast food joint, if I want to go to McDonalds and get a bean burrito from Taco Bell, I should be able to do that!)

good answer.

Half Life 2 is a first party game by Valve and they can be as picky with it as they please.

http://store.origin.com/DRHM/store?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&SiteID=ea&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&productID=81565800

But it is well sorta. It's ep2.. in the orange box. Though not for digital distribution for obvious reasons.

That's a HUGE bitch!

That video lol...

Way to practice Necromancy.

Is that published in the year 2011 or later?

It's not an 'no EA games are on steam period' ordeal, it's an 'on these games contract requirements clash, hence no steam' ordeal. Plenty of EA games on Steam.

Amalur was self published by 38 Studios on Steam, EA didn't have a hand in it. There have been several EA published games put on Steam since Origin came around.

It's really only games developed by EA and their subsidiaries that you can probably forget about seeing on Steam ever again, if their only publishing the game then the developers can self publish elsewhere if need be or push for a contractual right to get it distributed elsewhere.

Amazon has it's own payment system.