It looks like publisher Electronic Arts may finally be jumping on the Steam bandwagon, as the EULA for EA Maxis' Spore has mysteriously appeared on the Steam site.
EA has long refused to offer titles on the Valve-maintained digital distribution platform, and has instead opted to pursue digital distribution through its own online store.
Though the EA-published Crysis and Crysis Warhead debuted on Steam earlier this year, the availability of the two games was negotiated by developer Crytek and Valve. Both were originally published under EA Partners label.
Should Spore make it onto Steam, it will represent the first internally-developed EA game on the platform. Other PC games from internal EA studios include Mass Effect, The Sims, Warhammer Online, the Command & Conquer series, and Dead Space.
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This means that all big publishers in PC gaming will be under Valve's roof!!!! EA is the last big publisher to resist Steam's powerful hold - and if EA succumbs to Steam, then that probably means that Steam's sales are off the charts!!
PS: NCSoft is actually another big publisher not on Steam, but they usually are mostly on the MMO space so they don't really need Steam (though Guild Wars 2 on Steam would be awesome).
