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LordCrash Yeah, great move marketing wise - we are not going to sell the game, at that place that has 95% digital distribution coverage, instead we will sell our product in the small shop that nobody likes.
You can buy Ubisoft games in many stores for Uplay, not only on their own store. Every other key store sold Uplay keys so far anyway. You only have to use Uplay for starting the game. Once installed you barely even notice it.
That 30% (or probably less in case of a big developer) is nothing compared to the boost in sales they will get.
I doubt that. Ubisoft's big games are known by almost every gamer, on PC and console alike. We don't speak about small indies games here that can only survive when being featured on the Steam frontpage. Ubisoft games don't need Steam and anyone who wants to play them already know about them or will be informed by other means. They do marketing and advertizing literally everywhere, even on TV. So no, gamers will get used to that if it stays that way. It's imo just a lot of dramatization again without any real reason...
They're not very good at their job of making money then, also Uplay is terrible. Just 2 days ago it FINALLY got essential features like minimizing the client to tray, background client updates.
Uplay is just fine. And it never needed something like minimizing to tray because you basically just use it while playing. It's not a community platform like Steam. Uplay's only job is to run in the background while playing and it does exactly that, fast and without a big hassle. I've been using Uplay for years now and it always worked like intented (sometimes there were issues with servers but same is true for Steam...)
Steam also has the most coverage. That 30% is nothing compared to what they'll be making as opposed to that little coverage Uplay has.
Ubisoft doesn't need Steam. EA doesn't need Steam. They are big enough to use other marketing channels than Steam. They are big enough to use their own platforms. That's just the simple reality, no matter how many people use or like Steam.
They sold games on XBL and they charged 70% at a time, didn't see Ubi pulling then.
Yeah, but do you know which contracts they had with MS? You don't and I don't. Maybe they agreed to sell the game there because they also sell it on the Xbox or whatever....
You know I was listening to their investor conference a couple of days ago and they said they finally moved to double digits(percentage wise) in the PC market, and now they pull this stunt.
Maybe they felt finally strong enough to cut ties with Steam and rely on their own strength. Of course it's a bit risky at first but EA sucdeeded in doing so as well some time back. People still buy Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Battlefield. People who want to play these games buy them no matter the platform. Only a vocal minority on the internet complains about that because of whatever reason. Reality is that it's not really that big a problem. It's an absolute side issue for the costumer imo.
MOD EDIT: DO NOT double post.