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[–] [email protected] 143 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Until I hear that they have dumped the requirement to log into Ubisoft Connect or Uplay or whatever they are calling it noe, then Ubisoft will remain dead to me.

Makes me sad. I really enjoyed the Assassin's Creed series and have waited for Shadows for what feels like a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

That plus resigning the same game every few months

Fucking auto correct

Resigning should be releasing.

Apologies alll

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Every time I go to play an old Ubisoft game I get to some stage in launching where I remember “oh right this is why I stopped bothering to play”

[–] AngryPancake 1 points 2 months ago

Especially painful on steam deck. If you get it working, it adds a good minute to the launch time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Considering the president that rocket league set, I would agree.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Despite the best efforts of major publishers including Activision, Electronic Arts, Rockstar, Bethesda, and others, not to mention the far better deal offered to developers by Epic, Steam is more dominant than ever—and in the end, they all came crawlin' back.

They're all crawling back because they did not give it their best effort. They just wanted the full 100% of the sale revenue without doing the hard parts. To be fair to EA, for the first few years, it looked like they were actually going to try.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

its more or less that yes. they saw the money but not the time and effort to get users to use your platform.

and its not like impossible, as long as you can create games people will play and stay at itll work (e.g Riot), but they legit put such little effort in the launchers that it was creating a negative user experience, and never put in the money to make it better.

[–] ryathal 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep same thing with all the streaming services, just taking the Netflix money was probably a better move for a lot of these services.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Eh, it's so easy to hop between streaming services that I don't have the same hangup there. You subscribe for a month, watch what you want to watch, cancel, and then go to the next one. You can always resubscribe later. When you buy a game on a given storefront, you're stuck with their feature set forever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

As a user there simply was/is no incentive to use other stores when the game is the same price. There has to be a reason for me to buy somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (12 children)

As much as I agree the 30% cut can be a bit steep, I do appreciate that part of it is going into ongoing R&D like Steam Deck and Proton benefiting the whole gaming industry. I'd like to think of it like Valve are investing into PC innovation similarly to the way Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo do for their new consoles.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

But unlike valve the console R&D is limited to the consoles themselves. Valve is working to improve gaming for Linux in general and foster a more open and consumer friendly console system.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

If you have to choose an evil monopoly hell bent on world domination and bloodshed you might as well choose steam at least they are owned by a private individual instead of a hive mind distilled from the pure greed of capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't matter if the game is on Steam or on Epic if it's a shit game.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Well, I bought FC5 for 10. It was still a rip off, but put that shit on sale and make something back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ubi actually makes some great games. Give Anno 1800 a shot.

[–] scottmeme 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When you make a trash launcher, people tend to ignore it. Who knew?

[–] Kecessa 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You could create the best launcher in the world and people would ignore it because they don't want multiple launchers and their library is already centralized on Steam.

[–] scottmeme 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm starting to build up my GOG library quite a bit, and that launcher in its current state is still better than Ubisoft Connect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like both ubi and gog launchers are basically unusable. I have no idea why gog doesn't fix their shit

[–] conciselyverbose 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe.

But until there's an alternative that isn't outright disrespectful with how complete and utter dogshit it is it's hard to say that for sure.

Inertia matters. But so does the fact that no one has bothered putting the work in to not be a trainwreck.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Guillemot said the same thing in a subsequent trading update call with analysts.

So stockholders demanded it lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm really starting to worry about steam. There aren't any good alternatives that seem to be hitting mainstream. Not to mention every now and then the shop gets ever so slightly worse and more spammy looking. Steam was a god send when it first launched and I'd hate to see it become what it replaced

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Im not sure what you mean.

Itch.io and GOG are great alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

GOG is awesome. I only get games from them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Not to mention every now and then the shop gets ever so slightly worse and more spammy looking. Steam was a god send when it first launched and I'd hate to see it become what it replaced

Was it a godsend? I thought everybody hated it initially. And I feel like it's only got better over the years as they've added more features.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

there are alternatives, but when you take shitty games (at least crippled games) and pack them into another client that also requires you to sign up, again, is it worth the effort? the games aren't worth at that point in my opinion.

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