Modern Warfare 3 is using Steamworks. That’s good news, because Steam is reliable, and Steam is popular. Batman: Arkham City is instead using Microsoft’s Games For Windows Live platform. Which is neither of those things. Making this bad (if not unexpected) news.
https://kotaku.com/yes-modern-warfare-3-is-coming-to-steam-5835437
You’ll of course be able to buy the game anywhere you like. Even Steam! So it’s not a Battlefield-3-only-on-Origin kind of mess. But good lord that GFWL shell is terrible.
Batman: Arkham City PC still releasing under Games for Windows Live [VG247]
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