After years of running exclusively with Epic, Ubisoft has had enough.
    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Hope they also disable their shitshow of a launcher.

      Don’t expect too much from the inventor of always-online DRM in single player games.

      • Wanderer@r.nf
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        3 months ago

        And inventor of predatory monetization. . . I mean “convenience purchases” in singleplayer games.

  • iterable@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Sweet now they need to fix their file sizes. When I saw how much bigger newest Far Cry was compared to last one I did a hard pass. Learning that companies are doing this so you can’t install competitor’s games made me never want to play another Far Cry again.

    • dankm@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Learning that companies are doing this so you can’t install competitor’s games

      Wait, wat? I hadn’t heard this explanation. I cynically thought it before, but I’ve never seen it suggested by anyone other than me.

      • iterable@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Few weeks back saw there is a lawsuit about this issue. I think more related to console though. As companies are on purpose using uncompressed and unoptimized files more and more just to take up more space to deny other games. *EDIT Just for reference Far Cry 5 required 40gb in 2018. Far Cry 6 required 170gb in 2021. Three years and grew more then 4 times the size…

        • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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          3 months ago

          thats a dangerous game as I take the amount of space a game is taking up when removing them from my steamdeck. I mean if I can remove one game to put on 3 or 4 more well. thats a no brainer.

        • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Jedi Survivor is 140gb. The MCC is about the same-ish size, but that one literally has six full games in one, plus all the multiplayer and customization.

  • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    It’s funny because if Bethesda, EA, Ubisoft and Epic joined forces to make one platform they could put a dent in the steam monopoly.

    But since they’re bunch of shittiy toxic managers with mentality of screwing everyone around for their own benefit, it’s never going to happen. They will always fail and crawl back to Gabe

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      For a short period, yes probably. But Bethesda is a failing studio and so is Ubisoft. EA has popular sports games but I’d guess that’s a very small portion of PC sales considering those games do poorly on the platform compared to consoles. Epic does have loads of money but not enough to float the other companies.

      In my view, Microsoft and their GamePass stuff is the only real competitor that will ever take a small dent out of steams sales, mostly because of the Call of Duty titles being on there now. But in order to take 0.05% or whatever of their sales they had to: own the OS for almost every computer running steam, buy dozens of game studios, compete (and lose) in the physical console market over decades, and they had to buy not one but two of the largest studios out there. To the point where they own a significant portion of the iOS App Store that is orders of magnitude more money than PC games and still they cannot compete with steam on their own operating system.

      If that doesn’t spell out how unstoppable Steam is, I don’t know what will. The thing that might actually hurt Steam is if those publishers were all GamePass exclusives. Even then, Steam would be just fine I think. Crazy.

      • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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        3 months ago

        Steam does good by the customer. No one else does. Only when they are customer first will they make a dent in Steam sales.

        • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          I’m more optimistic about that. I don’t see why the storefront or their general philosophy would change. At least not quickly. What might change is how they treat their IP. Ask yourself if you’d be okay with another half life game being just a 7/10 game. Because I think that’s what would happen.

          • Hugin@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            A 7/10 game would be better then no game. Besides sequels don’t erase the original.

            • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              That’s kind of why I said ask yourself. Because I think some of their titles Id rather see live on at a 7/10 level but others I don’t think need it. Like I could handle a TF3 at that level or maybe even a portal game. But half life would kind of hurt to see it not be a 10/10 maximum effort game. I wish they’d finish the story while Gabe is still at the company.

  • Lad@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    Ubisoft could put their games for free right into my PC’s games folder and I still wouldn’t play them. They’re shit.

    • b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Once you’ve played one Ubisoft game you’ve played them all. They did that thing where they took the best gameplay loops from each of their games and implemented them in their other games. So you always feel like you’ve done it before.

      Their stories dance around the idea of saying something meaningful without actually taking a stance on anything. They feel like they’ve been approved by a board of directors and not the vision of an artist.

      Absolutely soulless.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I used my money to put one of their games in my library and when I noticed (after the refund window) that it was an Ubisoft game, I decided to play something else.

      I don’t subscribe to the sunk cost fallacy.

  • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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    3 months ago

    That’s half the reason I don’t buy Ubisoft games. The other half is their launcher and DRM system.

  • darthsid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I wish Ubisoft goes back to the era of calling all PC players pirates and then not realising their games on PC because it’s too much effort. This way we won’t have to suffer their presence on our beloved platform.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    Ubisoft left steam? Didn’t even know it, their games have gotten terrible reviews for so long, and their uplay platform is so shitty, I have skipped them until they fixed their game dev or cancelled uplay, haha.

    • jacksilver@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      If you’re into Metroidvanias “Prince of Persia: Lost Crown” was actually a real surprise hit. I think it’s the first Ubisoft game I’ve played in years.

  • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Why is it always this one photo of Gabe? It’s like a meme format that journalists use unironically any time Steam comes up.

    • xenoclast@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I think because (health aside), it projects huge IDGAF energy… which goes well with the stories.

      Maybe these corporate parasites that ruin the industry could learn the lesson that it is a lot more profitable to not be a piece of shit. And treat people with respect.