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[Chris Priestly]

We are very pleased to announce that Dragon Age II is now available for pre-order on STEAM

Customers who pre-order between now and launch will recieve the Lion of Orlais shield, the sword Fadeshear and access to the Black Emporium. You can read about these items HERE.

So for all of the Steam users who were hoping Dragon Age II would be on their favorite Digital Distribution system, you can now get DA II on STEAM.

[Fernando Melo]

Whatever the reasons (and you are free to continue to create conspiracies and assumptions as you wish), the fact remains that unfortunately the SE edition was not able to get on to Steam.

I'm as disappointed by this as the next person - everyone involved wants our games to be available to as many players as possible, that's the business we are all in.  There is no 'win' by purposefully holding back our game from a segment of our potential players, or jeopardizing a long standing relationship with any one of our distribution partners, or any number of other "evil" (but illogical) things that have come up here. 

EA publishes dozens of games a year - BioWare alone has franchises making games and additional content year upon year - despite what some of you may want to think, there is no sense in toying with our partnerships or you, the community, for short term gain.

It is almost like there is a want of drama from some in order to help them justify this in some manner, but the reality is that it is no one's fault -  the fact that we released something before is no guarantee that we can come to an agreement to release something in the future, just as the reverse is also true. 

Those of you that followed us through the Origins roller coaster of release dates for DLCs and patches (particularly for consoles) should know by now that occasionally things do not go according to plan - and despite best efforts from everyone involved, some players 'lose out' for any number of reasons. 

That is never a good thing for us, nor our partners.  

How would actively working to do have players 'lose out' in any situation like that make any sense?  To then assume that any company would do those things - and specifically target YOU, yes you, and purposefully upset you in such a way that you won't buy anything from us is letting your misconceived anger get the better of your reasoning skills.

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[Fernando Melo]

Extending this isn't really an option - sure, sounds simple but again there is a massive assumption being made that there are no implications with other partners or players who would cry foul or me too.  The reason for doing the SE as a pre-order was deliberate - the fact that some retailers were not part of it (whether it was steam or other retailers, but steam obviously being the largest) is unfortunate, but that time has passed.  That is completely independent of other products/discussions - thus, we were able to get the normal edition on steam. 

As for purposefully holding back - that too makes some gross assumptions that this behavior is directly beneficial in some manner because we also have a digital store, such as somehow we assumed everyone would just buy elsewhere and thus there is little or no loss from it, which is not the case.  If the intent was truly to walk away then why would we do the regular edition which over the lifetime of the product will sell many many more units?

Again, some of you may desire to rationalize this in some way - but if you actually seek truth you only need to look at how we operate with other partners.  For example, look at retail.  We have very deliberate incentives to encourage players to purchase a new box, yet we still value retail as partner and offer pre-order incentives.  The assumption that being a player in the marketplace is an all or nothing proposition is folly - the norm (not just us, but as an industry) is actually to both operate as a competitor and a partner. 

Lastly, if you look at the industry as a whole absolutely it is going digital - so maybe the day will come at some point in the future where the above could be rational.  For the moment (in the reality we all currently live in), that is not the case.  But I agree with some of you when you say that creating drama is much more exciting than reality - to each their own

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[Fernando Melo]

All fair comments and opinions - it doesn't change the present status.

It may be we're arguing opposite points for naught, or that these are being considered and things are already afoot, or maybe nothing will happen and you will continue to feel that somehow this was purposeful on our part to simply ignore you for some reason - I don't pretend to predict the future, nor that I have any direct control over it.  

I can only offer some perspective to contrast some the thinking on this thread of how the past led us up to this point - how you choose to react to that and whether you wish to assign blame, as always, is entirely up to you.

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