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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lol right? Why is steam the only acceptable DRM?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is steam the only acceptable DRM?

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

DRM is never good for the end user.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, guess I'm going to pirate it.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Steam or GoG

Anything else is too much pain.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ubisoft makes games for 13 year old mountain dew addicts

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Drink verification can to continue

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

well also you might wanna look into pirating their titles (even if you do 'own' them), as they have made it clear they dont want you to have any control over the games you buy, like access to them in the future. So say the epic steam thing goes belly up, epic closes, ubi will not see a reason to give you access on their service or steam if they move their games there.

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