EA Executive Vice President Andrew Wilson acknowledged Origin's poor public reception in 2013, saying to those who had a "less than optimal experience" with the service, "We get it. While there was some merit to that argument, the fact that EA didn't have to pay Valve a 30% revenue cut for sales through Origin may have also played into the continuing decision to avoid Valve's popular storefront.īut Origin faced pushback from a contingent of Steam-invested gamers almost immediately, thanks in part to its lack of features and the prospect of managing a separate new friends list. Further Reading Editorial: What EA will lose if Battlefield 3 remains off SteamBack in 2011, when EA announced that Battlefield 3 would not be available on Steam, EA cited Valve's "restrictive terms of service" that made it more difficult to distribute patches and DLC through the game client itself.
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