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So, Steam exclusivity is fine, but other stores exclusivity isn't?
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?
Did he say it should be STEAM exclusive?
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.
We don’t want the market to be a monopoly but we also don’t like fragmentation.
The reality is people want games wherever they are invested most already. That’s about the only metric people use.
Gog exclusivity would be cool, epic not so much.
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.
Definitely greed, Ubisoft did the same thing in 2019 because they didn't want to pay Steams 30% cut.
They’re on epic, their launcher, Xbox, PlayStation, and switch. That’s a lot of stores taking their cut lol.
There are five ways to play this game, two of which involve a free launcher that you interact with for all of 30 seconds. I do not understand why this is such a big deal.
I mean, the reason is obvious of course: people like to simp for Valve, and people like to dunk on Ubisoft. This is basically carte blanche to act like they have kidnapped a newborn child without any consideration for what they actually did lol
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.
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.
There is absolutely no reason to be such a giant jerk in this thread.
They started it. All I did was make fun of rich companies “struggling” for money.
Not only that, they are missing about five other platforms it's available on. Steam is the only one it’s not available on basically.
It's pretty obvious OP means PC, the other hardware platforms are irrelevant here.
So it’s available on every major console which serves a almost 200 million people (absurd to call that irrelevant) and 2 free launchers for PC but OP is mad because it isn’t on steam, which regularly serves as the only location for a game to be released on?
Their argument would hold water if they were saying it should not be tied to a launcher. But they are mad it is not on steam. That’s ridiculous. They have 5 ways to play it across 4 hardware options.
What's absurd is bringing up hardware platforms OP doesn't have access to as equal options, you're being ridiculous. It's obvious OP won't be buying a new device for a freaking Prince of Persia.
They’re whining about using freely accessible launchers dude. I don’t know what else to tell you. They have 5 ways to play this game. I’m not sympathetic.
Well “freaking prince of Persia” warranted this rant apparently. I didn’t place the importance on it. OP did.