It seems EA has an unlikely ally in the husky shape of Minecraft creator, Markus “Notch” Persson, who has confirmed that the game won’t be launching on Steam because of its restrictive terms and conditions.
“Being on Steam limits a lot of what we’re allowed to do with the game, and how we’re allowed to talk to our users,” he writes on his blog.
“We (probably?) wouldn’t be able to, say, sell capes or have a map market place on minecraft.net that works with Steam customers in a way that keeps Valve happy. It would effectively split the Minecraft community into two parts, where only some of the players can access all of the weird content we want to add to the game.”
Much like EA, Notch is in the process of “talking to Valve about this”, and presumably trying to come to some mutually beneficial arrangement, but for the moment, don’t expect to see Minecraft on Steam any time soon.
Minecraft will move out of beta and into real market space in November on PC, while Xbox and mobile versions of the game are also currently in development.
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