EA has announced that EA Access is coming to Steam, making it the first gaming subscription service to be available on the platform.
Additionally, EA will begin selling their games on Steam again, after it moved its titles off the marketplace and hosted them exclusively on the Origin store in 2011.
The move is a result of a partnership between EA and Valve, and will begin with the launch of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on November 15th. In the following months, titles such as The Sims 4 and Unravel Two will also be available on the service. Multiplayer titles such as Apex Legends, FIFA 20 and Battlefield V will be available next year, and will include cross-play – allowing players on both Origin and Steam to play together.
“At the core, we are game makers, and our aspiration is to connect as many people as we can to the great games that we built and make it as frictionless as possible for them to do that,” said EA senior vice president Mike Blank. “So with more players playing more games and more platforms, frankly, we want to be where the players are.”
Despite the partnership, EA are treating Steam and Origin as separate platforms, and any games purchased via Origin cannot be transferred over to Steam
