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.
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.
For me, I prefer Steam because of Steam Link, which allows me to play Steam games remotely on my phone.
Steam link doesn’t work for external games added into your steam library? I’m new to steam in general, but it seems weird that they’d let you add a game and not use them with link.
Steam link doesn’t work for external games added into your steam library?
Yes it does. I dunno about the hardware unit, but the android app alone works with everything you have on Steam; even the non-Steam games. Just fired up The Outer Worlds Spacer Choice edition given away on EGS some weeks back added to Steam as a non-Steam game through Steam Link on my phone.
It even straight up streams your desktop, so you can launch games not even running through Steam.
“prefering” steam is completely understandable. Boycotting a game and being disappointed and angry because it’s not on steam isn’t. To me at least. Regarding steam link: if you have an Nvidia graphics card, check out Moonlight!
What we want are reliable DRM-free installers, that don’t make our PC get infected and don’t spy on us.
What we can curently get (outside of piracy), is Steam.
Piracy is looking better every day, and specifically, every time one of these services has a huge security breach.
I’m on Linux and Valve and Itch are the only ones with first class Linux support. Everyone else you have to dick around with running their launchers through wine or lose features.
Because ”vote with your wallets”.
Why support a dodgy business over one of the best for consumers?
I don’t mind that epic, etc. exist; I mind the exclusives. When Epic first launched, they didn’t have payment processors in a number of countries so there was literally no way to legally play the games for people; that’s super shitty.
Most games appear on STEAM as well, some time (like 1 year) later. And they appear in much better shape with all patching and all.
— A man that put his VR game exclusively on his own digital distribution platform.
…a platform that works much better than the others… and a game that has been made with more love than anything in the past half a decade
On their own game engine.
Built to showcase their specific VR hardware. That they built after getting burned from multiple VR companies who abused Valves good will of providing access to their patent protected VR tech for free, to help accelerate the VR industry.
You are fully justified to put your own developed stuff where youwant to.
On this one point I side with Ubisoft.
Well, guess I’m going to pirate it.
What video game worth playing isn’t on a proprietary platform?
I’ve been playing Starsector lately, that’s been pretty fun. Native Linux version too. No launcher required
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.
Yep, double shitty. Makes me want to start sailing. 🏴☠️
If it’s denuvoed you’ll have to wait for the crazy bigot Empress to crack it. Could be a while.
I’m still kinda shocked there isn’t anyone else trying. Maybe you need to be crazy to be a legend.
cracking Denuvo shit must be incredibly challenging.
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.
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.
I’ve been boycotting Ubisoft for years, haven’t missed a damn thing.
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.
Of all the shit Ubisoft does, not selling on steam is the dealbreaker? Alright.
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.
Lol right? Why is steam the only acceptable DRM?
Why is steam the only acceptable DRM?
Because it’s optional and if opted in, works offline.
So, Steam exclusivity is fine, but other stores exclusivity isn’t?
Gog exclusivity would be cool, epic not so much.
Did he say it should be STEAM exclusive?
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.
I think it’s a money thing. Releasing a game on steam costs developers money.
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.
Keep that snark for 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.
Grow the fuck up you child. A bit of sarcasm and you’re crying about “aggressive”?
Reported. Someone needs to go out and touch grass.
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.
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.
Maybe it runs on a switch emulator. 😏
Hope so.
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.
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.
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.
I know of at least one other place it is available, and they have it for the cheapest price 😈
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