Lol - literally my first thought as a Steam Deck owner. I've been doing most of my gaming recently on Deck, so the more games on Steam the better imo
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Lol - literally my first thought as a Steam Deck owner. I've been doing most of my gaming recently on Deck, so the more games on Steam the better imo
yeah I can see why Ubi would've taken the deal (I assume Epic paid them well) but it never made much sense to me on Epic's side
wild. The Ubisoft Connect version has Cross-Save with the console versions as well, so hopefully that will be present here. One downside is there are a handful of achievements you can get locked out of on Console if they would have triggered while you're playing on PC.
what's in the change exactly? Sorry not well versed in AC
Assassin's Creed 2 got Deck config update too
Brotherhood and Revelations got new patch depots last month
Brotherhood and Revelations got new patch depots last month
Now that's interesting. Looks like they will be coming back full swing to Steam
Ubisoft slinking back after finding out that the Epic cheque doesn't mean anything when nobody buys games on the EGS.
Wish they would give you the option to bring you Ubisoft Connect purchases over to Steam. Would love to play my Far Cry and Assassin's Creed games on the deck without too much hassle.
Would be nice if you can skip Uplay and just launch what you actually want to launch. Even better if there was something released recently by Ubisoft that was fresh and worth playing.
Everyone else already returned to Steam, it would make no sense for Ubisoft to be the odd man out. I wonder if the deal they had with Epic is about to expire.
I'm excited to finally play Valhalla and would likely preorder Mirage. Hope they don't forget Steam achievements.
Steam and PC Gamers stay winning. I'm not particularly interested in a lot of Ubisoft games, but I would be tempted by some of the AC games for Deck play.
If it was just the deal with Epic then Ubisoft would simply keep selling its games through its own service and collecting 100% of the revenue.
Why not just stay with Epic then? If the games are doing fine, they get a bigger cut there
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Stay with epic is what I meant, if they're successful I'm sure that Epic would be more than happy to bankroll another deal
AC Valhalla was Ubisoft's biggest PC launch ( Wasn't available on steam)
Epic seems to be winding down their third party deals, we know from the Apple trial and their year in reviews that the Epic store isn't doing very well. I doubt the Ubisoft deal ever made much sense for Epic, I imagine most people bought their games on Uplay outside of the EGS sales with the subsidized coupons, which lost money for Epic on every sale.
Also we know from Activision that Mosern Warfare 2 sold twice as many units on PC compared to recent games, showing the importance of even big games being on Steam
View: https://twitter.com/charlieINTEL/status/1589726659829456897?s=20
But without Epic deal, they won't get the additional (free) revenue. So they come back to Steam for that added revenue. It's not that complicated to me.
Yes, that is the point, that by returning to Steam they will sell way more copies of their games.
Yeah and with them moving more and more towards in game MTX you want as many people playing your games as possible.
Ubi coming back to the good ol' 'Unsustainable/Unrealistic' Steam Revenue share plan :P
Looks like more is being done in the back end too. Might be coming soon, the two year anniversary of it's release is tomorrow..
I would assume so, that's certainly how games launched on Steam previously ran.