Online Distributors banning CoD MW2 because of Steam

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Originally Posted by PaoloM

I really don't care who is to blame. There is something wrong and crazy with Steam pricing for european customers, and that's all that counts to me. When you go to a restaurant, if your meat is not good the cook is not allowed to put the blame on the butcher. It's his responsibility to satisfy the customers.
Sorry Steam, you are not satisfying me, so you won't have my money. Plain and simple.

Steam has some amazing deals on it, yeah, full retail price can be a bit steep but there's normally a sale or price cut on most games and you can pick up some really good games for a fraction of the store price.

I can understand online distributors being weary of STEAM because it IS a competitior, however, what bugs me is when developers come out and criticize STEAM because Valve is also a games developer. Gamers will buy the games that they want, I don't think developers are in that much direct competition with each other. If your games good and you've got a decent marketing team people will buy it.

[TheOneFreeMan]

I'll agree with the amazing deals part. Mass Effect is currently up there for £6.50 ... that's an amazing deal, I think. Obviously a sales drive for the upcoming ME2, but I don't see any retailers offering such a price.