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.

    • Brokkr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      I’m not taking a side in the debate of Steam vs others but has Steam ever negotiated an exclusivity deal of a 3rd party game?

    • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      10 months ago

      I think a million times people discussed this and ubi and epic store clients are far inferior compared to steam. People have all the rights to not want their game collection spread across half a dozen platforms.

      I personally don’t buy anything Ubisoft mainly because their launcher is pure garbage and I hate it with passion.

      Steam made me stop pirating games, Epic and Ubi made me overcome my FOMO and be a patient gamer.

    • technomad@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • cottonmon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Definitely greed, Ubisoft did the same thing in 2019 because they didn’t want to pay Steams 30% cut.

        • technomad@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          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.

        • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
          25·
          10 months ago

          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.