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Fuck Ubisoft. (self.games)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by technomad to c/games@lemmy.world
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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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[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Who cares if it is on Steam or not though?

If everything was on everything then sure, that would be great. But that's not realistic, and having this alternative where everything is on Steam but not elsewhere is not a good solution for that because Steam will be shit one day, and already has quite a few shitty issues.

Honestly, people have this ridiculous view of PC gaming and Steam sometimes. Look around the world and show me where having one company having a massive hold over that sector has ever worked out well long term for consumers.

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man what are you on and whats with these pointless anti steam propaganda. I get why people would be against steam but this literally isn't one of them.

So let me repeat that. NO ONE WANTS IT TO BE STEAM EXCLUSIVE. PEOPLE ARE AGAINST PLATFORM EXCLUSIVITY. To me you look like weird one having some weird fetish for hating big bad companies. Everyone knows the problems of monopoly and I have also taken course on economics so I am somewhat aware of it but I buy things where it's convenient and if it isn't I would rather pirate it. Doesn't matter if it's stream or gog or epic, you are simply barking at the wrong tree mate.

[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

It sounds like we agree then. Ideally everything would be on every platform, but that's unrealistic so OP is pretty much complaining needlessly. It's good there are different platforms and competition.