Star Wars Outlaws not available on Steam/EGS (at launch)
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I know there are some legitimate complaints against EGS, but there's a lot of people who absolutely refuse to acknowledge games exist outside of Steam and it's baffling to me. Sure, the Ubisoft launcher sucks, but even platforms like GoG get completely overlooked.
If you actually want a solution then Playnite works about perfectly.
I've bought plenty of games on Ubisofts launcher and this is not true.
Steam Input, Steam Screenshots (love uploading pictures to my feed), patching handled by Steam, backups handled by Steam (steam lets me put games on an external hard drive and not care if it's disconnected. Ubisoft Connect doesn't like it) and Steam Communities (AC Origins had an issue with the Nvidia drivers a month back where going underwater would cause the game to crash. I saw 0 aknowledgement except by users on Steam forums who also suggested which drivers you could roll back to to get it working and also notified people when eventually it was fixed with a later driver) and of couse easy Steam Deck compatibility.
Additionally the shitty Ubisoft Connect launcher wanted me to log in and 2FA everytime it updates when I launch it standalone which doesn't seem to happen when I launch it through a Ubisoft Steam game for some reason.
Barely. Connect is held together with string.
It still has the issue where it logs me out for inactivity if I play a game with a controller for more than an hour.
Anyone who missed this fact needs to re-evaluate their answer, tbh.
Even when "released" on Steam, Ubisoft games just open the Uplay/Ubisoft Connect launcher anyway.
Unfortunate but completely justified when it's their game on their own launcher, unlike when a deal is taken merely to exclude, usually one particular other launcher (Steam).
I would probably do the same on consoles, sticking with whatever the console company itself has established if there was multiple launchers attempting to segregate the games there too - unless one such launcher actually started providing a better experience, which also goes for the state of launchers on PC too.
I don't make a salty "no Steam, no buy" song and dance about it whenever this happens but I've used Steam exclusively for the past few years because it's pretty much established itself as 'PC gaming' for me.
I would probably do the same on consoles, sticking with whatever the console company itself has established if there was multiple launchers attempting to segregate the games there too - unless one such launcher actually started providing a better experience, which also goes for the state of launchers on PC too.
Makes financial sense. Not sure why anyone would be surprised. Keep that 30% you'd otherwise lose to Steam for as long as sales allow and then put it on there. My guess is six months or so unless they have really good sales numbers on their own platform in which case it could be even longer.
I play those games through their launchers directly, so I'm not interested it getting any through Steam and have it effectively act as a shortcut to the Origin or Uplay client, especially when Steam integration is pretty poor like Anno 1800 or The Division 2.
I'm assuming this is just a weak troll, but I'll reply sincerely on the slim chance you're just misinformed.
Steam isn't DRM. There are many, many completely DRM free games on Steam that once installed will happily run locally and never require you to run the Steam launcher again.
There is the option for developers to use a Steam DRM wrapper, but this is not required for a game to be released or sold on Steam.
It's a matter of trust.
Steam, and Valve, have done a lot over the last 20 years to engender trust. This trust is not blind, it's not dogmatic, and it's not people being "fanboys", it exists because of specific actions and long term behavioural patterns.
Ubisoft does not have that trust. Neither does EA, or Epic, or even Microsoft.
Ok, then why are Activision and EA back on Steam?
Almost like taking the 20-30% cut on 180 million MAU users is better than leaving Steam for a 0% cut on their own launchers
I historically haven't cared about launcher exclusive stuff. I buy wherever is cheapest.
That being said. I have ALL my star wars games on steam. So I know that if I buy the Ubiconnect version, I'll just buy the Steam version down the line for my lizard brain.
So unless the game is FANTASTIC I'll just wait so I don't need to buy twice.
That being said. I have ALL my star wars games on steam. So I know that if I buy the Ubiconnect version, I'll just buy the Steam version down the line for my lizard brain.
So unless the game is FANTASTIC I'll just wait so I don't need to buy twice.
I think this speaks to a conversation I was having the other day. I don't think these devs always respect PC as a primary market. The biggest audience for this game will be casual Star Wars fans, the vast majority of them will be on console. Now PC is still important, money is money but they are willing to take risks maybe give up some sales to gain more of a share of the profit, cause that's the whole point of running your own storefront right?
That's fine. It will 100% show up on Steam down the line and it will be the everything edition for like $20-$30 like they did with AC Valhalla, FC6, etc. and I will buy it then. Maybe they will have figured out Steam achievements by then too?
I don't get the "Even Microsoft" here. Microsoft deserves absolutely no damned trust after pulling the rug on developers using GFWL, or their blatant refusal to address and acknowledge issues with their current disaster of a storefront.
100% this. There's also a ton of folks that don't feel the need to play a game day one or even year one, so waiting for the convenience of having the game on their preferred launcher isn't a big deal. I'm in that camp. The longer I have to wait the better, because the cheaper it'll be tbh.
There's also a valid opposition to companies that restrict games from certain launchers. It's an anti-consumer move. The more the better.
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I don't really bother buying Ubisoft games on other Launchers because it launches Uplay/Ubisoft Connect anyways and last I recall you couldn't go directly through the Ubisoft launcher it had to be through the original one forcing you to have 2 layers open at the same time.
But yeah this is annoying and normally a deal breaker, but I never buy Ubisoft titles Day 1 anyways as they're always grossly overpriced
But yeah this is annoying and normally a deal breaker, but I never buy Ubisoft titles Day 1 anyways as they're always grossly overpriced
Microsoft had a huuuuuge first-mover advantage on PC, what with being the platform holder and all, and as you point out have repeatedly squandered that opportunity.
Microsoft are the presumptive kings of PC gaming, that they aren't actually in that prime position is due to 30 years of fumbling the bag.
Ubisoft making poor decisions? Must be a day that ends in y.
They would agree with those statements. I'm not sure if you read it correctly.
GOG Galaxy can help if you're looking for something to keep track of everything.
Games can still do very well on PC while skipping Steam as Valhalla has proven being their best selling PC game. I reckon Outlaws will do very well too.
not ideal, but im fine with this. Ubisoft game, ubisoft can put it on their own launcher. This doesnt piss me off like epic just buying launcher exclusivity.
Definitely not a Steam purist because I have some shit on EGS but I'm not touching the Ubi launcher with a ten foot pole
I thought maybe they were doing better by putting more recent games on Steam like Valhalla and Far Cry 6, but I guess I should have known it's basically a situation where it's a timed exclusive.
This might actually hurt one sale at least - only game I ever bought on Ubisoft was FC6 and I regretted it.
This might actually hurt one sale at least - only game I ever bought on Ubisoft was FC6 and I regretted it.
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Surprising to see EGS but not Steam.
Ubi is trying to capitalize on these licensed games to bring in sales without having to pay Uncle Gaben a 30% cut.
Bold strategy, let's see if it pays out.
I wouldn't waste your time responding to those people. If, after the countless number of threads over the years with explanations describing why so many users prefer the varied benefits of Steam compared to the alternatives and what Valve has achieved for the PC community, they're still basically posting to the effect of "hurrdurr it's just a launcher" then they're either just trolling or being willfully dense.
Yeah, I read that wrong, apologies. I thought the "even" meant something along the lines of "Even with all the work they've done, they don't have that trust". A mark of being noteworthy rather than of presumption.
