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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by technomad to c/games@lemmy.world
 

I was pretty hyped for the new prince of persia game (the lost crown), but come to find out it's only available on ubisoft's proprietary launcher or epic games. Nope, and nope.

I just want to have it available on my usual storefront, Steam, but it's been decidedly omitted. As a long time fan of the old games, this kind of hurts. Especially since many of the others -are- available on Steam.

I wonder if/when it will come out for Steam. These platform exclusivity deals need to die.

Edit: It's also available on several consoles, my post was just from a pc gamer's perspective.

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[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think a million times people discussed this and ubi and epic store clients are far inferior compared to steam. People have all the rights to not want their game collection spread across half a dozen platforms.

I personally don't buy anything Ubisoft mainly because their launcher is pure garbage and I hate it with passion.

Steam made me stop pirating games, Epic and Ubi made me overcome my FOMO and be a patient gamer.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We don’t want the market to be a monopoly but we also don’t like fragmentation.

The reality is people want games wherever they are invested most already. That’s about the only metric people use.