{"id":12846,"date":"2011-07-11T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-3-digital-retailer-listing-does-not-include-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/12846-battlefield-3-digital-retailer-listing-does-not-include-steam","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3 digital retailer listing does not include Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend EA posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlefield.com\/battlefield3\/1\/bf3-digital-retailers \" target=\"_blank\">a list<\/a> of all the digital retailers confirmed to sell Battlefield 3 later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The list consists of just under 100 digital distributors, including the likes of Gamersgate, Direct2Drive, Impulse, and of course, EA&rsquo;s own Origin platform. Conspicuously absent from the list was the world&rsquo;s largest digital reseller of PC games; Steam.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing to say that Valve or EA won&rsquo;t announce the game on Steam at a later date, but given that it is already available for pre-order pretty much everywhere, it seems a bit strange that Steam is missing at this point.<\/p>\n<p>EA has previously confirmed that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be available as a digital exclusive through Origin, although this is different because Battlefield 3 will be sold through a wide variety of online retailers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15542-No-sign-of-Battlefield-3-on-Steam?p=473308#post473308\" target=\"_self\">Does it bother you that Battlefield 3 might not be available on Steam? <\/a><\/strong><\/span>&lt;&lt; Let us know in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#039;s largest PC games reseller may not carry Battlefield 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}