[bluedanieru]

Dragon Age 1 and Mass Effect 1 & 2 are still available on Steam. Interestingly, they pulled Crysis 2 then a few months later added Crysis 2 Maximum Edition.

For Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3, I agree with their reasoning. Steam doesn't allow in-app purchases that circumvent their distribution system, and that's a load of crap.

[sliverstorm]

Steam doesn't allow in-app purchases that circumvent their distribution system, and that's a load of crap.

The idea there is probably something along the lines of preventing developers from selling their game for $0.99 and "unlocking" it in-app for $59.00.

[theevocater]

steam isn't an open 'app store' though. It is entirely curated through valve. Valve chooses the games to list and if they aren't happy, they will not ask you to list with them. They could easily refuse to sell games if you did that.

[batiudrami]

Crysis 2 came back once no more DLC was going to be released - hence 'maximum edition'.

The no in-app purchases which don't cut in Steam was introduced when they began allowing free-to-play games on the service (which are usually monetised by microtransactions, and would be a money-loser for Valve if they didn't make a cut from them). I don't know why Steam can't make an exception for EA titles (or those purchased from the store rather than F2P), but that's the reasoning.

[brainfed]

You're right - seems it was just Dragon Age 2 that they pulled. My bad! I thought I was only seeing them because I already owned them.