Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services

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• gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Please more of this. External launchers can suck my nutts

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  • whizzlezoop@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s amazing to hear what external launchers are able to do these days

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do they also have internal launchers? Asking for a friend

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• Anchorxiety@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Using a launcher to launch a launcher to launch a game is dumb as hell.

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  • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Yo dawg…”

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I come from the time where you just run the game and it, you know, ran. While I think even Steam itself is stupid as hell, at least someone is stopping the idiocy a little bit. Though ubisoft is dead to me, so it’s a participation award, not a real ‘woo, go awful company’ cheer.

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  • bacon_saber@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yo dawg,

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• BladeFederation@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I might actually buy some Ubisoft games again, pirating is 1000x better for their shit. Some stuff is literally unplayable the way they want you to do it, like Far Cry 3.

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  • artwork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s sorrowful to know you, or that “pirates”/people like you have guts to admit your sorrow on public.
    Piracy is never ever good unless for history/archiving, and still is questionable.

    You? You are a simple infant robber, a spoiled child, who stole money, or just did not pay people for their life work. A work on ineffably magnificent art…

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Piracy is a service problem, not a price problem.

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The artist still got paid for their work. They don’t get a bonus if more copies are sold. The only one not getting money is Ubisoft corporate executives and shareholders.

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    • BladeFederation@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol. Lmao even.

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    • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I would pirate your work too.

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    • HalfSalesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You are either insufferably stupid or this is bait.

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    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      guy who thinks he’s an artist but is just maladjusted

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    • tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lmao

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    • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nobody who actually made the game is gonna see a dime of the money from your sale. Why the fuck do I give the slightest shit about contributing to some Ubisoft exec’s yacht?

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    • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Get a load of this guy!

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    • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m so tired of your shit Mr Guillemot. There’s no need for you to come in here and talk down to us. You’re the CEO of Ubisoft, you can literally do anything you want. Go fly a kite, go hug your family, go do something that brings you joy and please leave us poors alone.

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    • OozingPositron@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you Japanese?

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    • Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Master-Baiter

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re right.

      One time I pirated a iPhone app and Steve Fucking Jobs came up to me holding a child. He then held the kid upside down by his legs, shaking him, shouting, “This is what happens when you pirate! This is what happens!”

      Then he ate the child.

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember a time when games were just installed on my computer. No external launcher

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  • InGodWeThrust@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s why I buy from Gog. No need to deal with launchers, always online requirements or any other bs

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    • PromKingJosh@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was surprised Cyberpunk 2077 (same owner as GOG) launches through RED Launcher even if bought on GOG. It’s probably possible to disable through a launch parameter though.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There was also a time when you also didn’t need Steam. You would buy a game, install it, and play it without having to connect to the internet at all. Growing up, a lot of friends had gaming PCs in their bedrooms with no internet connection at all.

    And if you did do stuff online, it was secondary and the publisher didn’t want a cut. StarCraft actually let you play online without owning the game - it specifically included an installer (The Spawn) that was for installing the multiplayer for free on friends’ systems. You only needed the disc to play singleplayer.

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    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was kinda my point :)

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I still don’t understand the point of making every game have a shitty launcher. I mean, I can understand MMO’s for updating the actual game and shit, but why the fuck do single player games have them?

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because then they can advertise their other games to you along with other things, at least going by the blizzard/Activision launcher.

      Can also do environment checks or setup and some troubleshooting/debug/repair from them.

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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hoping to see this update come to Watch Dogs and Assassin’s Creed. Currently can’t get it to work in Linux and can’t be bothered to troubleshoot when I have other games to play.

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  • yukichigai@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doesn't sound like they're going to backport this unfortunately. Damn shame: I absolutely love The Division but having it on Steam means I have to run two launchers to play it. It usually works... usually.

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• VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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• Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good this was a issue when I wanted to play Watch Dogs 1 on Steam Deck.

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• mohab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m glad it’s highlighted on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown in particular, because that was the first game I’d bought from Ubisoft in years, and the extra launcher deterred me from considering buying any of their other games for a long while still.

  This is like the only good game they put out in forever. Great combat, I had fun coming up with combos in it, but I dropped it eventually because it dragged on for too long, and the further I progressed, the fewer enemies I could juggle, so I was having less and less fun.

  That clone fight was peak though. Reminded me of an almost identical fight in F.I.S.T: Forged in Shadow Torch—yet another metroidvania with awesome combat and combo system.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t mind additional launchers and accounts, if it was optional without hiding core game elements behind it. A game must launch and the base game be playable on Steam without additional online DRM, software launchers and account requirement. For single player games that are fine to play offline.

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• TeaAndHotDogs@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ditching the launcher is great, but I’m guessing they will still require you to create a Ubisoft account and link it in so you can hop over to their store when it “improves”. Better, but a day late and a dollar short

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• artwork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  With all of licenses acquired at Steam, I had never had a single issue with Ubisoft Launcher in all of adventured ineffably magnificent Miracles… of artists, developers, managers, people… at Ubisoft I heartfelt… soulful appreciate…

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you having a stroke, or am I?

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• QuantumEyetanglement@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Haven’t seen it mentioned yet but besides the obvious win, the game is excellent! Highly recommended for metroidvania fans

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• Statick@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bye

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