Peter Moore; No Feud with EA's "Great Friend" Gabe Newell

Just because EA has Origin with which to sell (aka 'deliver') its games under its conditions, and Valve has Steam with which to sell games (just not EAs because of conditions) does not mean that the two companies are not besty buds according to EA's CEO in waiting, Peter Moore.

Speaking at gamescom 2012 the bearded one states that, "There's no feud". But why?

He tells Eurogamer, "Remember, we're the guys who published Left 4 Dead and Portal 2. It's Valve. Gabe's a great friend of EA's. We're a great friend of his, we like to think."

Aside from the thoroughly believable friendship, however, there are realites:

"They have different terms and conditions that they put on their games that don't meet what we would like to do with our gamers. They insist on being a layer between the game developer and publisher and the consumer. They take a piece of the revenue stream. And they don't allow us to go directly to the consumer to do patches and updates. So we just agree to disagree. It's not a feud. They have their terms and conditions. We do. They don't meet. So we go do what we do, and they're doing very well at doing what they do."