The verbal feud between Valve and Electronic Arts continued as Valve officially responded to earlier claims by EA of Steam sales being dangerous to the strength of gaming properties. EA accused Valve of "cheapening" those properties as a result and not in terms of savings to consumers. In a bit of irony, EA would shortly hold their own mega sale on Origin which "cheapened" a lot of their own games.
Valve's Business Development boss, Jason Holtman, stated recently the annual Summer sales and other big sales done by Steam do not "cannibalize" overall sales but instead help those same games succeed a lot more.
He also mentioned had Valve ever felt these sales were doing more harm than good to these games and partner companies, they would have ended the mega sales long ago.
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"A promotion is not a policy; a promotion is just a feature to give people more value," he said. "It’s not as if a 75% offer or a 50% off sale at some point in time cannibalizes a sale that would have happened earlier, it’s just not true. We’re actually seeing both of them growing. We don’t see one cannibalizing the other. If we did, we wouldn’t do it.
"We put Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal 2 on sale. If we thought that was killing our franchise, or hurting the value of games, or hurting the revenue we could generate as a company, we wouldn’t do it. We’ve even gone so far as to give away Portal for free a couple of times. Whole days where it’s not free for a day, it’s just free. We looked at this amazing data afterwards. The day after the sales were exactly the same, if not more."
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Daily Recap:
1) After accidentally leaking the existence of Battlefield 4 on Origin, EA decided to make the announcement official today as Battlefield 4 is in development and has a late 2013 release date.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/battlefield-4-announced
http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield-4
2) Valve reveals they are working on bringing Steam to Linux very soon with Left 4 Dead 2 being successfully ported to the platform and more games to arrive once a fully functioning Steam client is finished for Linux.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/steam-coming-linux-soon
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/valve-...-support/4274/
3) The Ratchet and Clank HD Collection containing the first three games in the series from the PS2, 3D support, and trophy support has an official release date August 28 and a $29 price tag.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/ratc...s-release-date