[STEAM] List of EA games that are now available on Steam

Indeed, they only ever had good sales >50% (or in the case of the Sims 4 a limited time "free" offer) on their base games. DLC has always been their cash-grab, only they've been consistently increasing the prices and reducing the content at the same time.

Sims 3 had the average price of The sims 4 DLC both for Xpacks and Stuff packs but the content still justified its price. And it still remains quite an expensive bundle to get out of sales season (over 300€). Sims 4 just got plain ridiculous with the cookie-cutter business and the overpricing. For me personally it's the modding community keeping the Sims 4 alive.

As far as Sims 5 is concerned I'm guessing they will be trying to delay that as much as possible at this time, since Paralives has started to get quite a bit of support (from myself included) after their latest reveals, and prepared the ground for legitimate competition in the Life Simulation genre.

Which means you've most likely played it before the game had cards added.

Yea if you played in the past you get the cards retroactively.

When did they do that? Can I get Origin keys now?

EA isn't that generous, many of us have a lot of games in our Origin library.
Since I already unlocked most of those achievements on Origin I'm thinking of subscriping to EA Play when it launches to reunlock them on Steam.

EA did it that way in an attempt to push players through to Origin as once a user is there they're more likely to then spend money.

Those don't have achievements on Origin.
Sims 4 & Crysis 3 are among the titles recently returned to Steam but since they don't have Origin achievements they didn't get Steam achievements.

Good to know, thanks!

Wow, is there any statement about this? As far as I read they promised full integration with steam features

they stopped listing then increased the price %100000000000000000. nice regional pricing there ea very nice move... i'm not buying.

Saboteur maybe, as they have the GOG DRM free version that they can use. Syndicate...it has a copy-protection problem (the game was protected by SecuROM online protection and it seems that the authentication servers are going down, other games being afected: LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth 2, some NFS games (Pro Street, Shift, Shft2, NFS Hot Pursuit 2010), Alice and a few others.

The licensed games won't make a comeback any time soon.

For the old NFS games there is a major problem with the licensed content, with many of the companies that were showcased in NFSU, NFSU2, Carbon, Undercover, Most Wanted 2004 being gone, so EA even if they've wanted they could not bring those back. Same situation for the sports titles: the licenses were granted for a set period of time, plus it wouldn't be profitable to bring back sports games from 10-20 years ago

Lords of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond games - the licenses expired. The first two are now with Warner (Daedalic was granted a limited license, too, recently, for LOTR) and the last one, after being held by Activision for some time, now is with IO Interactive.

Basically, any game that was made under a license, won't be back any time soon. The games where EA owns the license, might come back, if EA decides to release those on GOG (so GOG would work their magic and remove all the s..ty protections and make them compatible with the modern OS. But it's been ages since EA brought something new on GOG.

Maybe with the recent shift in marketing, the old games (the ones that EA actually owns completely), will come back on both GOG and Steam. Will see.

Ain't copyright and DRM, fun?!