The Possibility for Battlefield 3 on steam is high!

After reading this post, i was excited, i had a feeling that ea and valve had finally gotten together and worked things out
http://bf3blog.com/2011/10/report-ea-and-valve-in-late-stage-talks-to-get-battlefield-3-to-steam/
Only afterwards was i stumped to find that ea had responding with "don't get your hopes up" kinda response
http://www.industrygamers.com/news/battlefield-3-on-steam-really-nothing-to-report-says-ea/
But...this isn't all what they meant it to be

EA have always been trying to promote origin as much as they can using battlefield 3, its plentiful pre-order bonuses and the fact that origin is needed for retail copies, at the same time indirectly 'attacking' steam by removing certain titles like crysis 2 and Dragon Age 2 (and ultimately battlefield 3). Its obvious that ea are so fixed onto reaping the profits with origin and battlefield 3 that all this time they've even 'confirmed' that battlefield 3 will not come out on steam, meaning that many players will end up resulting to origin to buy it resulting in ea getting more direct profit, much more than had they confirmed a steam release.

So when a post about how ea and valve are getting along to getting bf3 on steam is leaked? what do they do? they say "dont get your hopes up", considering how they want to reap all the profits on origin, wouldn't it make sense that they get rid of any idea of bf3 going on steam at all to prevent people avoiding origin?, also considering they had previously denied a steam release? I though they would have said "no, as previously confirmed, battlefield 3 will not make an appearance on steam".. instead they just saying "we don't have anything new to announce on this". OF COURSE they have nothing to announced on this, if they announced bf3 on steam, millions of players would flock from origin, cancel their origin pre-order and head back home to steam, ultimately leaving EA with a lot less profit. If they bluntly denied it (saying 'NO" instead of "don't get your hopes up"), and still released it, they would lose all their credibility, i mean even activison wouldnt lie like that (from what i know).

The fact that they didnt deny it and gave us an answer inbetween yes and no implies that their's still hope, but not just a little, I believe ea will release it on steam (at least) weeks after origin's release, getting the best of both worlds who prefer steam over origin, especially from those rebuying back to karkand on steam. Basically steam would providing them with heaps of profit anyway, so not releasing it on steam at all is economically stupid. With this, i have my prediciton that Battlefield 3 on steam is likey, i believe it will happen at some point, the sooner the better. (SUCK IT UP ALREADY EA)