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Fuck Ubisoft. (self.games)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 141 points 11 months ago (6 children)
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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 86 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I've been boycotting Ubisoft for years, haven't missed a damn thing.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been boycotting Ubisoft for years, haven’t missed a damn thing.

Yeah, there are so many great games by non-shitty developers. Skipping Ubisoft, EA, and Activision entirely is not only possible but there are more great games left than one can play anyway.

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[–] BillDaCatt@kbin.social 61 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can be sure that even the Epic version will still require the Ubisoft launcher. That is how all of my Steam purchased Ubisoft games are with the exception of the first Assassin's Creed which predated the Ubisoft launcher. All of the others require it regardless of how I bought it.

I'm going to wait for at least two or more years after release for the new Prince of Persia. My days of paying full price for Ubisoft's games are over and recent statements from the CEO make me reluctant to ever buy their games again.

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[–] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Of all the shit Ubisoft does, not selling on steam is the dealbreaker? Alright.

[–] VelveteenUnderground@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Lol right? Why is steam the only acceptable DRM?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why is steam the only acceptable DRM?

Because it's optional and if opted in, works offline.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Plus it works so smoothly I never even think of it as DRM, I just notice all the positives.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Plus it works so smoothly I never even think of it as DRM

AFAIK SteamWorks DRM is something developers have to actively implement in their games. From what I understand, by default Steam is merely a delivery system without DRM.

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[–] ombremad@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Me in 2004: Yeah I’ll never play Half-Life 2 because I hate that it comes with a mandatory useless piece of software. « Steam », what the hell is that? Full of DRMs, ugly, bugged to the core, eating up my precious RAM.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are valid concerns but there are benefits to using one game manager. There's nothing good about having to install a bunch of them because every other game is in a different store.

It still would be best if games came DRM-free and all of them were compatible with whatever game manager someone chooses, but a lot of them aren't, especially from big publishers.

[–] ombremad@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago

« There are benefits in using one game manager »

That is very true, and that’s why your game manager software shouldn’t be tied to any storefront or online service.

[–] kusuriya@infosec.pub 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

YAR HAR FIDDLE DE DE YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT BECAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE.

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[–] MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's definitely convenient to have everything in once place, and Steam has way more features, but it's good to avoid Steam becoming too monopolistic. We saw recently how badly that can go with reddit.

Despite the widespread worshipping of Steam and GabeN, I've had lots of issues with Steam and Valve over the years.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Convince other companies to be not shit competition then. Steam has its near monopoly because its competition is dogshit

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[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Avoid it in favor of GoG. Ubisoft can't be trusted with a single drop of goodwill. As we can see by how they inject their clunky garbage manager even in games they sell through other stores.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I know of at least one other place it is available, and they have it for the cheapest price 😈

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wrong. I know a place that will pay you to download it, if you're willing to first disable Windows Defender.

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[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cue the BUT STEAMS MONOPOLY idiots that completely ignore that Valve does nothing to stop anyone from competing with them, its just that anyone who has tried (outside GOG) has only produced anti consumer garbage

[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

DRM is never good for the end user.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Steams DRM is a VERY REASONABLE compromise between the interests of the devs and the consumer not wanting to be unfairly punished/annoyed. Steams DRM has literally NEVER caused me a headache aside from ONCE when steam was super new, its a non issue at this point

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[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Ubisoft is shit, most of their games are.

The moment I heard the new Prince of Persia had Denuvo, I wasn’t going to play it anyway.

[–] rustyriffs@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep, double shitty. Makes me want to start sailing. 🏴‍☠️

[–] teft@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

If it’s denuvoed you’ll have to wait for the crazy bigot Empress to crack it. Could be a while.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

If it’s denuvoed you’ll have to wait for the crazy bigot Empress to crack it. Could be a while.

30 seconds of googling revealed that someone already packaged the Switch version for PC with a preconfigured emulator.

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[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago

I don't know how they all manage to do it but EA, Ubisoft, and Rockstar are all my most hated companies of all time. They can make some good stuff, but I just absolutely hate how they all force people to jump through so much hoops just to play the games you pay them for.

They force you to make accounts with them and use their stupid launchers which never work properly and are just advertisements. There have been so many times I just wanted to play a game and then forgot my password to the account and got locked out or the launcher needed an update and I had to wait like 20 minutes.

Fuck all large game corporations.

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, guess I'm going to pirate it.

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[–] bluetardis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

Steam or GoG

Anything else is too much pain.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ubisoft make it pretty easy for me. I don't have to worry about any of this, because none of their recent titles have been worth spending your money, let alone time on

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[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 12 points 11 months ago

Was the same with every platform. Enshittification does not care about you

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] rabiddolphin@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ubisoft makes games for 13 year old mountain dew addicts

[–] Wav_function@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Drink verification can to continue

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