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.
Valve doesn’t need to because they are the overwhelmingly dominant player. It’s not the same situation.
Also this isn’t an exclusivity deal in the first place. And valve makes some of their games only available on steam (Alyx for instance).
Right. That’s the other part: what does an Ubisoft launcher contribute? My argument is that it contributes nothing new or even in parity to most other stores. So that’s why people are annoyed at having to use the Ubisoft launcher. And not just a launcher, but store. So now people have to keep track of multiple stores for no benefit to them. It’s a legitimate complaint.
Right. Because they were first. So what should Valve do? Suck more? They just have to keep doing their own thing and they continue to win because they practically invented this space. If competitors want a chance, they need to innovate and none of them have done so. So they fail and people dislike being forced to use them.