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Big_Boss_77, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.
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technomad,

What an incredible and numerous combination of harmonies. Excellent share, thank you.

BillDaCatt, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.
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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.

hexabs,

I tried playing the original AC games recently. They went back and integrated the launcher for those too smh

HorreC, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.
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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.

dinckelman, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.

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

MamboGator,
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This is my take as well. The last Ubisoft game I enjoyed was Black Flag. It’s a shame because in the early 2000s they were great, but now they’re just churning out yearly sequels to turn Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry into Call of Duty.

TheBananaKing, do gaming w New mod team, new chances.

That was certainly entertaining to watch :D

I guess my ideal gaming community would be a good balance of Srs Gaming Industry News and silly memes/idle chatter, without veering too hard in either direction. /r/games and /r/gaming are neither of them much fun, precisely because of the split.

I vote to keep the leftwing propaganda as a regular feature, so long as it’s gaming-themed. It’d irritate the crap out of that one guy, while also helping ward off the whole toxic-gamer-community thing a bit, and give this place its own unique vibe.

rikudou, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.
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So, Steam exclusivity is fine, but other stores exclusivity isn’t?

Brokkr,

I’m not taking a side in the debate of Steam vs others but has Steam ever negotiated an exclusivity deal of a 3rd party game?

technomad,

Wrong. I never said I wanted it to be exclusive on Steam, I just want it to be available on there as well.

Why is Steam pretty much the only one it’s not available on? The fact that it’s on so many other platforms just makes this exclusion even more illogical.

FlorianSimon,

I think it’s a money thing. Releasing a game on steam costs developers money.

technomad,

It’s definitely a money thing, but I don’t think it’s in the way that you are suggesting. I think it’s a matter of them making more money (somehow) by excluding Steam. That’s pretty much the only platform it’s not available on.

Marsupial,
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Ubisoft are a poor struggling indie company after all.

Not at all to do with Epic paying devs for exclusives.

Oh and btw both Epic and Steam charge $100 to publish on their store, so it’s not that.

FlorianSimon, (edited )

Keep that snark to yourself. No need to be an asshole.

If you’re going to be so aggressive, at least try to be correct. Ubi not being indie doesn’t mean they’re willing to pay the 30% fee Steam asks gamedevs on sales, which amounts to a lot of money at the end or the day at that scale. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of copies sold.

That, and POP is not an Epic exclusive. It’s on Ubisoft’s own launcher.

Marsupial,
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Grow the fuck up you child. A bit of sarcasm and you’re crying about “aggressive”?

FlorianSimon,

Reported. Someone needs to go out and touch grass.

Marsupial,
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Yes you do.

It’s pathetic that a grown adult cannot handle sarcasm thats not even directed at them without crying and playing a victim.

Pantsofmagic,

There is absolutely no reason to be such a giant jerk in this thread.

Marsupial,
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They started it. All I did was make fun of rich companies “struggling” for money.

cottonmon,
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Definitely greed, Ubisoft did the same thing in 2019 because they didn’t want to pay Steams 30% cut.

shani66,

Gog exclusivity would be cool, epic not so much.

MxM111,

Did he say it should be STEAM exclusive?

Macaroni_ninja,
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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.

Lemvi, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.

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

VelveteenUnderground,

Lol right? Why is steam the only acceptable DRM?

woelkchen,
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Why is steam the only acceptable DRM?

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

FlorianSimon,

Ubisoft’s launcher also has an offline mode, though, does it not?

improbablypoopingrn,

You lost me at ‘ubisoft’s launcher’

msage,

I remember playing Far Cry 3 on Steam way back when… It opened up uPlay. I was not happy, but what can you do.

So I played for a bit, then… the game crashed. Nothing seemed to be wrong with the game, but the uPlay lost connection. Everything else worked just fine. Happened several times after that, never bought anything else from Ubisoft.

Even if their launcher isn’t such piece of shit anymore, I don’t care.

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

woelkchen,
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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.

zecg,
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Yes. Ubisoft’s Rayman Origins works with no launcher, just copy steam’s game dir and you can run the game exe on another computer.

mhz,

As a linux gamer, a game that is not available on Steam is a game i won’t even bother checking. I can easily run non-steam game using lutris or heroic-game-launcher but I prefer to stick to my walled garden than step in their’s.

kattenluik,

It’s generally easier to install a pirated repack of a game via Steam and Proton than using their awful launchers.

technomad,

No, they should definitely be accountable for all the other shitty things too. This is just a game I was actually kind of excited for, hence why I’m upset about it.

Prunebutt, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.

Maybe it runs on a switch emulator. 😏

technomad,

Hope so.

statler_waldorf,

I heard from a “friend” that it runs very well on a Switch emulator on a Steam Deck. Some pre-rendered cutscenes are janky. It has a pretty cool system where you can take a screenshot that will pin to the map to indicate places you need to find back to once you unlock a new ability, and sometimes those don’t render right either. But otherwise, gameplay is flawless. Or so I’ve heard.

criticalimpact,

I’ve heard this as well I’ve heard it works well on the steam deck too

Marsupial,
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I reckon some sort of physically active girl already has it but packaged and released with a switch emulator so you can just go play it.

hal_5700X, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.
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I wonder if/when it will come out for Steam.

Wait for year or two. It sucks.

Jaysyn, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.
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I've been boycotting Ubisoft for years, haven't missed a damn thing.

woelkchen,
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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.

technomad,

Yeah, that’s pretty much where I’m at with gaming now. Why settle for a subpar experience? I don’t have the time or finances for that.

cottonmon,
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Yeah, they’re a pretty shitty company. Weren’t they one of the first companies to implement always-on DRM?

pastel_de_airfryer,

Yeah, I think it was in Assassin’s Creed 2. At the time, people were unable to play the single player game they bought at launch because Ubisoft shitty authentication service couldn’t handle the load.

Guess who didn’t have that problem…

simple, do gaming w New mod team, new chances.

That was fast lol. Thanks for taking quick action, I was about to shoot a message to the admins about it. That guy was acting out for no reason.

While we’re at it, can we allow meme posts again? Feels like games@lemmy.world already has its place as the ‘serious’ gaming discussion.

Thanks!

Thekingoflorda,
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Oh absolutely, this whole mess started I believe because Stamets dared to disagree with the active mod about meme posts being allowed. So since he’s now the mod, let the memes flow!

Catoblepas,

I wonder if this had something to do with it as well? Thank you guys for cleaning it up either way 🙏

Stamets,
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Yeah… As said, I made a comment saying I disagreed with the memes being disallowed and almost immediately it was removed and I was banned. I noticed a few minutes later and sent it to a few people like “Dudes lost his mind.” Wasn’t long after that he just exploded. I mean it was hilariously stupid because we can reinstate all the posts with very little effort, and putting up a new banner or icon isn’t exactly heavy lifting either.

As for memes… yes. My whole comment said that I wasn’t sure of the difference between here and /c/games if memes weren’t allowed. As @Thekingoflorda suggested, he doesn’t seem to have an issue with memes. I certainly don’t. @JonsJava I haven’t had a chance to have a good chat with but we will at some point today and we’ll figure out the rules and stuff but I suspect that they’re not going to have an issue with memes. Although I do not want to speak on their behalf and guarantee nothing, mind you.

JonsJava,
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Meme all the memes!

ModernRisk, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.

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,

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

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

shani66,

I’m still kinda shocked there isn’t anyone else trying. Maybe you need to be crazy to be a legend.

technomad,

cracking Denuvo shit must be incredibly challenging.

shani66,

It is, but i don’t think for a second empress is the only person to stumble across the solution. Unless it’s something so crazy only a crazy could do it.

I know there are a lot of reasons why it’s a harder choice to make; you can’t share the secret because that’s a security risk, you can’t make as much money, you are at greater risk. I guess i just miss the old days where people into tech were anti establishment and into doing things because it was cool.

technomad,

Good to know, I’m not really up to date with the scene.

woelkchen,
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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.

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

It mandates a Ubisoft account everywhere anyway. Apparently on Switch in airplane more is the only way to circumvent this.

Phelpssan,
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According to the DF review vídeo the account is required on PS/Xbox unless you’re offline, but entirely optional on the Switch.

It’s discussed around 15min into the video.

johnlobo,

I try the switch demo, you presses back multiple time, it skip the ubishit login.

TheOakTree, do gaming w Metal Gear Revengeance - whats with their faces ?^

Memes, the DNA of the soul.

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