• doublah@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4 hours

    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.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6 hours

    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.

      • doublah@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4 hours

        Yet they barely support playing on an OS you actually own and only really support the proprietary DRM-filled Windows

        • mrbigmouth502@piefed.zipEnglish
          2 hours

          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.

        • dewritoninja@pawb.socialEnglish
          4 hours

          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

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5 hours

      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.

  • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
    9 hours

    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.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4 hours

      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.

    • regdog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      Ubisoft has always been bad. They basically invented the whole „singleplayer must be online“ shtick.

    • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8 hours

      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

      • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
        7 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).

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    14 hours

    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.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15 hours

    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.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6 hours

      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.