Even EA have realised at this point that nobody wants their launcher and it damages sales, and stopped putting it in their new games (except Sports titles for some reason)
Ubisoft will keep making bad decisions until it bankrupts them.
This is why I don’t like external launchers, or anything outside of Steam.
Valve spent 20 years figuring out the best way forward for a lot of things to make the gaming experience As easy as possible. So whenever someone takes a page and tries to imitate Valve, they’re missing the hundreds of other details. Epic Store, Sony’s move to digital only, games with launchers.
I don’t even like steam. I wish everyone would fuck off with these launchers. Especially considering the price of storage and memory in our hallucinatory times.
Mate, gog does game ownership leagues better than steam
Yet they barely support playing on an OS you actually own and only really support the proprietary DRM-filled Windows
People keep downvoting you, but you speak the truth. GOG’s Linux support is a joke. If they were serious about Linux, they would’ve released an official version of Galaxy for it by now.
Gog sells native Linux Games, and the heroic games launcher is part of their partner program. Gog games run perfectly fine with wine/Proton and are the preferred way to play games on winlator.
The gog galaxy client might not be on Linux but that doesn’t even matter since heroic does everything galaxy does but better
As a Valve fan, this doesn’t have anything to do with forcing everything onto Steam. It’s an issue with games having DRM and phoning home to servers for no fucking reason.
Yo ho! 🤘🏼
I wish I had known how fucking terrible Ubisoft has become. I haven’t bought any of their games in ages. I picked up Black Flag Resync because Black Flag was one of my favorite games ever. I’ve enjoyed the Resync…when it works.
But I can’t get it to run on my Steam Deck without just a black screen, despite being “verified” on the Steam Deck, so I have to stream it from the PC if I want to play on the handheld, and it frequently won’t start up because of their stupid Ubisoft Connect bullshit “not able to activate” which is so fucking absurd since it should activate once and then be activated forever.
For an alternate stealth agility game I recommend the Styx series.
For sailing and bashing heads I recommend Valheim.
For actual sailing and trading I recommend Sailwind.
For another singleplayer pirate experience I recommend Salt 2: Shores Of Gold.
Windrose also looks promising.
Blazing Sales looks like a blast of a PvP Battle Royale pirate game.
Blackwake is a free and straightforward pirate ship PvP game. Very fun but low server population numbers at odd hours.
Ubisoft has always been bad. They basically invented the whole „singleplayer must be online“ shtick.
Whole new level of living under a rock just dropped. Lol.
lol I’m “relatively” inexperienced in the PC gaming world. My (very limited) Ubisoft experience was on console where I never had an issue. But also I haven’t really wanted to play anything from Ubisoft in ages. Honestly I think the last Ubisoft game I played was Black Flag on the Switch (Black Flag on the go? Yes please!) and before that probably Black Flag on Xbox 360.
I had no idea just how awful they were on PC.
No worries, they haven’t been a decent company since the early 2000s.
Steam is they type of company to grant a refund if you tell them you’re upset that the game lied about steam deck compat and offline mode, even if you’re over 2 hours
Thank you for the suggestion. I won’t seek a refund, because I am enjoying the game very much when I do get to play it, the story additions and mechanic updates and new graphics are worth it to me personally, but it will very likely be the last Ubisoft title I purchase (until they remake Black Flag again in 2039).
Sounds like it doesn’t have an offline mode
Yeah this is why Ubisoft is hidden from my Steam store. I mean in addition to requiring a third party launcher and account and utilizing Denuvo on every game.
I don’t bother with Steam games that use third party launchers. Too much of a hassle on Linux. I learned that the hard way a few years ago when I grabbed Titanfall 2, after people insisted that it ran well in Linux.
The thing is, not every Ubisoft published games has these requirements (according to the Steam page, this is not an exhaustive list):
- South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
- The Rogue Prince of Persia
- Assassin’s Creed™: Director’s Cut Edition
- Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time
- Brawlhalla (but has Kernel level anticheat, works on Steam Deck)
- ATOMEGA
But that’s mostly old titles or not developed at the core Ubisoft teams. It is safe to just block Ubisoft, but wanted to point out, here and there are a few little games that do not have this bullshit. I’ve gun through their catalog a bit, and its depressing.
‘You’ll own nothing and be happy’
One of the reasons why I don’t buy Ubisoft games that require their accounts or software; and that is most of them. There are couple of games for 2.99 Euros up to 6.99 I would have purchased, but, because of this, I don’t even pay a few bucks.
I would pay more more money for most of Ubisoft’s games than what Ubisoft currently sells them for if Ubisoft wasn’t associated with them.
Imagine if Steep was developed by an indie company!?
Oh wait that is Shredders… except the damn mountain design in Steep is gorgeous, it is such a waste that Ubisoft strangled that potential.
