News The Division 2 removed from 3rd party sites after preorder period, thx to Epic's Deal

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Notice


Hey Community!
Sadly we have to announce you that Ubisoft will not allow digital third party stores, such as Gamesplanet, to sell Division 2 after its release on March 15th 2019. After this date, the game will digitally only be available through Ubisoft's Store and another exclusive digital store. This will also be true for all upcoming game content such as Season Pass, Extensions, etc.
Take the opportunity to buy at Gamesplanet until March 15th 2019 and make use of the paysafecard promotion as this will be available until the game will be pulled from our stores.
We won't be able to solve some support requests (e.g. key activated on the wrong Ubisoft account) after March 15th, as we won't have any more keys to exchange/swap. Please address your support requests to Ubisoft directly for such cases.
Worry not, all purchases that have been completed on Gamesplanet will be honoured. This is also true for gifts, no matter if these have been picked up or not.
Obviously, we are not happy about this decision.
The Gamesplanet Team

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Gotta love competition

 

[Hektor]

Thank you sergey

 

[GhostTrick]

Don't you love competition ?

 

[lashman]

why can't i hold all this competition ...

 

[Kuroyume]

Going to be fun to see the mental gymnastics people will do to spin this as good elsewhere.

 

[lashman]

Going to be fun to see the mental gymnastics people will do to spin this as good elsewhere.

it's good because competition is good

 

[uraizen]

... Fuck off, Epic.

 

[lashman]

... Fuck off, Epic.

if only ...

 

[Deku]

Thumbs up! For competition!

 

[Nahkapukki]

This will be awesome for Uplay.

 

[lashman]

This will be awesome for Uplay.

not really .... i mean - short of people using ubi coins for that 20% discount (which isn't automatic ... you need to have those coins first ... and quite a lot of them too!) - the game will be full price in both places after launch .... so you'll have a choice between paying full price on uplay ... or paying full price on egs ... and that's it

 

[curi0usBystander]

I might be misremembering but wasn't this kind of implied when they announced it, not that it changes anything.

 

[Tizoc]

This manure
Smells like
C O M P E T I T I O N

 

[Nahkapukki]

not really .... i mean - short of people using ubi coins for that 20% discount (which isn't automatic ... you need to have those coins first ... and quite a lot of them too!) - the game will be full price in both places after launch .... so you'll have a choice between paying full price on uplay ... or paying full price on egs ... and that's it

True enough. Still I'd rather get it there and give Ubisoft their whole cut instead of tossing money at the exclusive hoarders.

 

[lashman]

I might be misremembering but wasn't this kind of implied when they announced it, not that it changes anything.

nope ... they just haven't really said anything ... so everyone just assumed it would be "business as usual" (epic version only available on epic ... and everyone else would have udontplay keys, as always)

 

[Prodigy]

I'm shocked Ubisoft would agree to that. It would be like telling them you also can't sell it on your own store only Epic.

 

[lashman]

I'm shocked Ubisoft would agree to that. It would be like telling them you also can't sell it on your own store only Epic.

i think this whole PC launch is just a big test for them .... to see how many steam people would go to either epic or udontplay

and they already got a BIG bag of cash (a REALLY big one!) from epic anyway - so i guess they figured it's safer for them to do it this way rather than just pulling the game from steam and selling only through udontplay

 

[Le Pertti]

Pretty sure this will do wonders for game sales.

 

[lashman]

Pretty sure this will do wonders for game sales.

surely

 

[madjoki]

More competition, nice!


Maybe I should've bought one of those $7 keys after all (didn't bother cuz would've needed US vpn)

 

[lashman]

Maybe I should've bought one of those $7 keys after all

naaaaaaaaaaaah

 

[Adnor]

Goddamnit.

 

[lashman]

Goddamnit.

competition

 

[Kurt Russell]

Competition! Man, the bag of cash Epic handed over to Ubi must have been pretty big.

 

[lashman]

Competition! Man, the bag of cash Epic handed over to Ubi must have been pretty big.

a good few millions (allegedly)

 

[Adnor]

I really want this game to play with my friends but cannot buy it till may, now I doubt I would be able to buy it till much later.

 

[lashman]

I really want this game to play with my friends but cannot buy it till may, now I doubt I would be able to buy it till much later.

well if it's only going to be available on udontplay and epic from now on - don't count on the price going down any time soon

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

If I do get it then it'll just be on the Xbox One like the original. I'm sorta tired of these MMO-lites though and just want to play a true MMO.

 

[Adnor]

well if it's only going to be available on udontplay and epic from now on - don't count on the price going down any time soon

Uplay doesn't accept Chilean debit cards so I just cannot buy it.

 

[lashman]

Uplay doesn't accept Chilean debit cards so I just cannot buy it.

some sacrifices need to be made in the name of competition!

 

[Ge0force]

It seems Ubisofts recent success on pc is making them greedy. Very sad. I really liked their business practices until recently.

 

[lashman]

It seems Ubisofts recent success on pc is making them greedy. Very sad. I really liked their business practices until recently.

that could be said about pretty much every big publisher that left steam .... they were perfectly happy with steam until they started to make big money off the PC market ... and suddenly everyone and their dog wants to have their own launcher and/or store

 

[Derrick01]

As someone who wasn't getting the game even if it was on Steam I'm still as upset at this as anyone else. It's a total bullshit move and sets a horrible precedent in the PC space.

It seems Ubisofts recent success on pc is making them greedy. Very sad. I really liked their business practices until recently.

Yeah you can see this in their pricing. AC Odyssey gold was $33 last week on ps4/xb1 (like $23 I think for the regular game) and on Steam it was $50. So I went to ubi's store thinking maybe they're just shafting Steam with a premium tax right? NO. It was $50 on their store too! It was the same thing with Origins that was cheaper on consoles too. They're treating the PC space pretty poorly lately.

 

[lashman]

It's a total bullshit move and sets a horrible precedent in the PC space.

i doubt they care ... like at all

 

[ramoisdead]

ALL THIS CONSUMER FRIENDLY COMPETITION

I mean why make me have a choice on where to buy that I can afford when you can just rip that shit right out of my hands and force me to go somewhere I don't want to shop at. THANKS A LOT EPIC AND UBISOFT.

 

[Adnor]

Confirmed by GMG too.

 

[lashman]

Confirmed by GMG too.

thanks, epic ...

 

[Ge0force]

that could be said about pretty much every big publisher that left steam .... they were perfectly happy with steam until they started to make big money off the PC market ... and suddenly everyone and their dog wants to have their own launcher and/or store

Agreed. But even EA doesn't forbid key selling for Origin when their games release. Never thought Ubisoft would become more anti-consumer than EA...

 

[Eriugam]

Selling a game exclusively on one store front and we are told competition is good?

Can someone educate me?

 

[RionaaM]

Selling a game exclusively on one store front and we are told competition is good?

Can someone educate me?

This is good because it hurts Steam, and hurting Steam is good because... er, greedy Valve? As opposed to generous Epic, I guess. A competitor so worthy that it doesn't want to burden us consumers with such useless features as Linux and universal controller support, in-home streaming, family sharing, community forums, guides, activity feeds, option to buy games from different stores, and search bars.

 

[lashman]

This is good because it hurts Steam, and hurting Steam is good because... er, greedy Valve? As opposed to generous Epic, I guess. A competitor so worthy that it doesn't want to burden us consumers with such useless features as Linux and universal controller support, in-home streaming, family sharing, community forums, guides, activity feeds, option to buy games from different stores, and search bars.

yeah, pretty much this ... competition is good because it's good, basically

doesn't matter if it ends up hurting the mass of the people in the end ... or the entire PC market .... competition is good by default (apparently)

i fucking hate capitalism and the fact it has brainwashed people to this extent .... that they're just mindlessly repeating stuff like that

 

[Le Pertti]

So if I get it right, even physical copies are pulled? That's quite huge in its own if true, that's a whole lot more stores than online stores. I also mostly bought ubi games in physical form before because they most often the cheapest.

 

[lashman]

So if I get it right, even physical copies are pulled? That's quite huge in its own if true, that's a whole lot more stores than online stores. I also mostly bought ubi games in physical form before because they most often the cheapest.

i don't think physical copies are pulled ... but then again - does ubi even make physical copies of PC games?

 

[Le Pertti]

i don't think physical copies are pulled ... but then again - does ubi even make physical copies of PC games?

I thought GameStop would not sell it, or 2as it online only? But yeah ubi physical copies sell quite well I think, in Europe at least.

 

[lashman]

I thought GameStop would not sell it, or 2as it online only? But yeah ubi physical copies sell quite well I think, in Europe at least.

i see ... hmmm ... not sure tbh ... i don't think they're pulling physical copies - that would be just a needless waste of money ... but i think they won't supply any more of them after release(?)

 

[Le Pertti]

i see ... hmmm ... not sure tbh ... i don't think they're pulling physical copies - that would be just a needless waste of money ... but i think they won't supply any more of them after release(?)

Ah yeah that's what I thought, but if that's the case then that's huge. So I can't fully believe that's the case.

 

[Kuro]

I wonder if this effects CDKeys since they just sell keys from the physical copies?

 

[Stevey]

I like the way PC gaming is going and have high hopes for the future /s

 

[Ex-User (307)]

Yeah you can see this in their pricing. AC Odyssey gold was $33 last week on ps4/xb1 (like $23 I think for the regular game) and on Steam it was $50. So I went to ubi's store thinking maybe they're just shafting Steam with a premium tax right? NO. It was $50 on their store too! It was the same thing with Origins that was cheaper on consoles too. They're treating the PC space pretty poorly lately.

Which makes zero sense to me in terms of royalties.

Hypothetically, they should be able to keep prices lower on their own store permanently lower than on 3rd-party stores. Their contracts probably prevent them from doing that, but they should at least be able to match the sales.

Why would you want to make the console version more attractive from a cost perspective since you’re making less money?

 

[Panda Pedinte]

PC gaming getting shitier pratices thanks to Epic.