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Valve & EA Hook Up

by Maarten Goldstein, Jul 18, 2005 12:40pm PDT
Related Topics – Valve, Electronic Arts, Vivendi

Electronic Arts and Valve Software have announced that they have signed a multi-year agreement which will see EA distribute Half-Life 2: Game of the Year edition and Counter-Strike: Source , as well as Half-Life 2 for the Xbox. Back in April Valve severed ties with Vivendi Universal Games following a legal settlement between the two companies. At the time Valve said they would look for a new retail partner.

"EA is the worldwide leader in bringing best of breed games, for all platforms, to market," said Gabe Newell, Valve's founder and president. "Valve games have sold over 18 million units at retail since Half-Life shipped in November 1998. By combining EA's unparalleled operation structure and distribution channel with Valve's award-winning development teams and games community, we've established an awesome combination for delivering great products to console and PC gamers around the world."
Half-Life 2 GOTY edition will include the original game, Half-Life: Source, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch and Counter-Strike: Source (no Aftermath expansion?). The retail edition of Counter-Strike: Source will include that game as well as Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Day of Defeat: Source. Both products, as well as Half-Life 2 Xbox, will be in stores this fall. Note: Guys this doesn't mean EA now owns the Half-Life franchise or anything. EA is just distributing the games to stores.


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    By: eggburt x
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    EA is turning into microsoft, eg. All microsoft games are £39.99 for sale here when released, whilst usually games are £29.99 or less, but Battlefield two was £34.99 (this is all in store, of course i got my copy off the net for £24.99...). And BF2 was only sold through pinnical hardcopy produces, which wouldn't sell it on for any less then something like £23, even to trade, eg. Webcafes.

    BUT the big advantage is that smaller developers are getting sales, because they are able to price they're games at £24.99 at release, and still make enougth profit. So small developers like Digital Jesters are managing to start up without having to be supported by a publisher like EA.
    Jul 19, 2005 4:33am PDT
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    By: virus This person is cool! x
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    not sure how i feel about this.

    it sucks because we all see EA slowly taking control of a lot of things in the industry ... soon enough im sure we'll see some lawsuits against them of the anti-establishment sort. its hard to ignore what they're doing with the sports games, and even $20 espn games couldnt keep up in sales. but imho thats just because their sports games are better, but thats just my opinion.

    anyway, another point i wanted to make: the battlefield 2 patch mishaps and the command and conquer: generals netcode (and the lord of the rings: battle for middle earth netcode as well) are all pretty major foul-ups... bfme's netcode really is horrid. they seem to let major titles out the door with sub-par quality assurance performed on them. as someone who works in a software QA department, i know how that goes. its hard to get flawless code out there, but for the most part our stuff always works. :P
    Jul 18, 2005 4:28pm PDT