Sims 4 on Steam?

Add me to the list of people who will not buy until it is released on Steam. It is short sighted for EA to not reach out to the entire market and Steam is a large market of PC gamers. One would go as far as to say, the largest current market of PC gamers.

Unless Sims 4 is not available on Steam, I won't spend any money on it.

I also boycott GTA 5 as long as it is not released for PC on Steam.

You have my word!

Must be the dumbest thing ever to not release it on steam.

Origin sucks and everyone knows it.

+1

Origin is horrible, Steam is well established and working.

We don't need yet another gaming release platform.

So EA, it's your choice:

1) Stick with your own crappy distribution (aka Origin) as the sole virtual distribution mechanism and lose $ because people are going to boycott your games because of it

2) Release your games on better distribution systems (aka Steam), pay a nominal fee to the owner of that system which should be well offset by the increase of busienss you're seeing because people like me will no longer boycott your games.

EA feels like they are abunch of royality who don't care about what their users want, so lets educate them with our wallets, make their stock price drop due to lower profts and have their stock holders force them into having executives who care about customer needs run their company (memo to self, short EA stock, but not today since it's already down 2.1%).

i hope sim 4 on steam. because id never buy anything again from origin NEVER!!!

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@SadChickenTendie

Why are you answering a 3 year old thread?

A preorder of the Sims 4 on PC or Mac have not been possible for years.

@SadChickenTendie  EA left Steam many moons ago (around 2009 it started to stop their releases on Steam). One of the reasons is the simple fact that Steam takes 30% from a sale. Which means that a lot of big publishers are starting to develop their own distribution client. Bethesda's client is in testing phase and is Bethesda intent to be a platform to sell their products. Warner has in works their own client for their games and 2K is looking seriously into making Rockstar Social Club more than a form of DRM (aka a store for their products). uPlay is already an established client/store, but if you buy any recent Ubi game (read post 2009) on Steam you will have to keep open both Steam and uPlay clients (so basically you are better off with buying the game directly from the Ubi store, as you will have to use only one client).

So bottom line is: Steam is parasiting their profits badly. And most of the big publishers decided that enough is enough. Steam seems to be stubborn and not to be open for negotiations (if their part was around 10%, i bet that EA would have stayed, but Steam wants to make a profit from anything: you sell a card or anything, they get 30% of that, too - they don't care). And stop trying to portray Steam as a good guy. They aren't. Just look at all their anti-consumer decisions from the past three years: regional block, regional gifting block, really bad sales, poor customer support - seriously good luck in getting something fixed with the Steam support, provided that they actually answer; toxic communities, left unmoderated and i can go on. Steam used to be decent, but they are now just plain greedy. If before 2010 Steam was still a decent place, in the second decade of 2000's, things went down the drain. 

I won't deny that Origin still has room for improvement. But it's not the worst client out there.

My personal top is simple:

GOG - optional client, light on resources, simple to use, stable

Origin - stable, decent features, light on resources

Steam - resource hog, lots of features (many which i consider unnecessary, but that is just me), stable, good interface. Just don't go full Steam mode, as you will kill your PC if you don't have a decent one

uPlay - worst of the bunch. Lacks features, still no gifting option, bad chat/friends tabs. Will frag your savegames often.

Apparently EA is returning to Steam,and The Sims 4 is coming as well.For now they published the newest Star Wars game