• Godort@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Ubisoft’s bean counters had some trouble reading the market on this one.

    They left Steam because they felt the 30% cut that Valve takes for sales on their platform is way too high, but didn’t account that users of Steam are really entrenched into that platform and don’t want to leave just for the chance to play an Ubisoft title. So instead of seeing 70% of Steam sales of their games, they saw 0.

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      3 months ago

      When I used it the launcher would constantly forget my login. And then for older games like Splinter Cell it asked for a login everytime I launched the game. It was ridiculous.

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        3 months ago

        Nothing like having to swat away 10 text boxes of bullshit on launcher start.

        When the game finally starts you get 10 more boxes and then ads for the season pass you couldn’t give a shit about.

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      3 months ago

      It’s not just a launcher but another garbage DRM method. But yeah, if they’d remove UPlay they may even get me back for the odd title. UPlay was the major reason why I started boycotting them.

  • k_rol@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    If only they made stores that were actually good and truly compete with Steam.