Games

it's only available on ubisoft's proprietary launcher

I just want to have it available on my usual storefront, Steam

The fucking irony.

I never understood this one. All of those platforms, be it steam, epic,. Ubisofts defunct thing or EAs even more defunct thing, are embedded browsers with a more or less obnoxious skin we all use almost exclusively to click "buy now". All of them are overloaded with crappy, half-baked "features" nobody gives a flying toss about.

So why the heck do so many people spend the limited energy they have available to live their lives on "boycotts" and endless rants about how a game not on steam is basically unplayable for some reason.

If this game would bring you joy (which I doubt since it's Ubisoft we are talking about, but that's another matter), why deny yourself that joy because the launcher you interact with for literally less than a minute is shittier than your usual one?

If the launcher itself was of any importance to you, you'd use playnite or something and just be done with it all.

Don't whip this up to some exclusivity debate. It's not. Imagine if this was some tangible product. Would you really not buy the thing you'd really like to have just because it's sold at a store where the shelves are crap? Because that's essentially what you're doing.

Lol as someone else put it, it's silly to complain that you won't buy a game because it doesn't use the marketplace you want to use.

Steam is just one marketplace and it needs competition. One day it's going to go through enshittification and when that happens you'll be thankful other marketplaces exist.

Sometimes I honestly wonder why PC gamers get so riled up over inconsequential things.

So, Steam exclusivity is fine, but other stores exclusivity isn't?

Is this a troll post? Who cares in which store it's available, just get a physical copy.

Steam shills are really mind boggling.