I was pretty hyped for the new prince of persia game (the lost crown), but come to find out it’s only available on ubisoft’s proprietary launcher or epic games. Nope, and nope.
I just want to have it available on my usual storefront, Steam, but it’s been decidedly omitted. As a long time fan of the old games, this kind of hurts. Especially since many of the others -are- available on Steam.
I wonder if/when it will come out for Steam. These platform exclusivity deals need to die.
Edit: It’s also available on several consoles, my post was just from a pc gamer’s perspective.
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
I think it’s a money thing. Releasing a game on steam costs developers money.
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.
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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.