News Anno 1800 moving to EGS after release (exclusive)
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pretty sure this confirms we won't be seeing ANY new games from ubi on steam anymore (contrary to what they claimed after Division announcement) ... if they're making EVEN THIS one exclusive ...
5 minutes pass, another exclusive with pre-orders on steam announced
... no, no, this time for realsies
... after this time
5 minutes pass, another exclusive with pre-orders on steam announced
... no, no, this time for realsies
OP
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yeah ... at this point i think it's safe to say ubi are done with steam completely ...
I'm not too concerned by it. I've grown tired of their games over and over again.
They will crawl back to Steam, I assume.
This roller coaster of EGS/PC news is getting exhausting.
I have more of a passing interest on Anno so you probably not cave this time like I did on the "grace" period of Metro, but this sucks.
Again, can't see any reason why anyone would get it on EGS, so... good for Ubisoft I guess.... sigh.
And yes, the we can now add the ''We don't want to do that ever again'' to the list of bs they said. What a shocker!
I have more of a passing interest on Anno so you probably not cave this time like I did on the "grace" period of Metro, but this sucks.
Again, can't see any reason why anyone would get it on EGS, so... good for Ubisoft I guess.... sigh.
And yes, the we can now add the ''We don't want to do that ever again'' to the list of bs they said. What a shocker!
OP
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- #11
i'm sure they will eventually ... but it's probably going to take a few years at the very least
not like they'll be able to admit moving completely to udontplay hasn't hurt their sales (EA sure hasn't ... to this day ... even though it ABSOLUTELY did)
well, i mean - this whole thing is pretty simple for me really ... to this day i don't own a SINGLE ubi game directly on udontplay ... and i don't plan on changing that ... if they stop releasing their games on steam - i'll stop buying their games, i have absolutely no problem doing that, no matter how much i like some of their franchises
I was in the middle of the road before all of this. I think I own... maybe 2 of their recent releases directly on Uplay. One was from an Nvidia promo (Watch Dogs 2) and the other (Far Cry 5) because the key seller Nuuvem had a very good pre-release deal. The rest I bought on Steam even if it was like 15% more expensive.
While I don't know (yet) if I'm going to stop buying their games completely, this will surely make me buy less. Anno is the perfect example of a game that it went on my wishlist and then maybe I got it on a small sale, so that's one less sale right there.
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- #15
i'm definitely done with them ... if they don't want my money - then they won't be getting it ... it really is as simple as that
and i'm not even angry, not really ... i just don't really care tbh, and i'm sure they don't either
Wow! This is what having your cake and eating it too looks like. All the Steam preorders (just after finishing up the Publisher sale which brought attention to their upcoming titles), the game available on UPlay and an Epic moneyhat. You can't blame Ubisoft too much, ha. They're basically getting paid by Epic to make a shift to their own UPlay like it was obvious was a desire of theirs so they no longer had to pay Steam (and they kept driving UPlay acceptance by incorporating it in all their games anyway). Steam is in a weird position too, they can't really ban such things with arbitrary standards that they will keep trying to evade anyway. They will honor preorders on Steam so that's giving them a free pass to get all the Steam marketing they can on top of all this even though the game will not be sold here past its Epic/UPlay launch! Ubisoft's being pretty damn clever with how they take advantage of this whole situation. And nobody is even batting an eye at such preferential treatment either, an exclusivity deal without exclusivity and likely most sales coming from UPlay/retail. A Steam embargo deal! And all this just after Epic claimed they didn't want another Metro Exodus situation! HEALTHY PC COMPETITION FOLKS! LOL! Repost, whatever, sue me 
Yes, if there is one sale this is generating is me pushing the button on Tropico today. Before I was waiting a little.
How much epic money do ubi need to remove tages from older annos.
Never preorder
Never preorder
Can Epic do the same thing with EA games? Would EA go for it or consider them more of a threat than Ubisoft does since, to me at least, Origin doesn't seem as well regarded as UPlay (probably in part because they didn't stick with Steam to expand Origin's reach like Ubisoft did for UPlay and fucked off too early)? It would be pretty big for them to be the only other store to have stuff like Battlefield but maybe EA wouldn't perceive it as advantageous as it is for Ubisoft.
With all the games that drop on Steam--thanks, Tizoc,--I'm not too worried about the other games. I seldom really miss a game that goes to Uplay, Origin, Blizzard, or GoG. (I left out Epic on purpose--I don't even knowledge 'em. Some of the clients will go the way or Desura, I'm sure; GoG and Blizzard are probably going nowhere.
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Yes, I can. But will I? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
I won't tell you what to do with your money.
But, do consider that, as long as people support things like these, they'll keep doing worse and worse.
It's like they're testing the limits of what their customers will or will not tolerate. As long as people don't push back, they'll keep doing this, and worse.
I did not see this coming. No word that I see that would indicate eventual Steam release. This makes me sad.
You are absolutely correct.Yes, I can. But will I? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
I won't tell you what to do with your money.
But, do consider that, as long as people support things like these, they'll keep doing worse and worse.
It's like they're testing the limits of what their customers will or will not tolerate. As long as people don't push back, they'll keep doing this, and worse.
I've just been so looking forward to the game, it looks legit incredible. ;_;
Fuck epic and ubi man
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- #26
yeah ... ubi are 100% gone ... it was pretty obvious since the Division announcement really, so this is not very surprising tbh
we all knew they were planning on doing this sooner or later .... guess they decided now would be a good time since epic was willing to LITERALLY pay them for it
I know, it's just that I really didn't expect them to yoink another game that's already on Steam.
OP
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- #29
eh, it's par for the course really
epic already proved there's no line they won't cross when it comes to pulling games away from steam ... not announcements, not logos in trailers, not pre-orders, not even crowdfunding promises
I wonder if they announced this on a Friday because they were hoping that the negativity over it would die down by Monday?
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- #31
probably ... also - Tropico 6 released today
Ubi should get as much shit for this as Epic. They've been wanting to leave steam for years now but were waiting for someone to be dumb enough to take the backlash for Ubi. Along comes Epic to PAY Ubi to be the fall guy, which is hilarious. Ubi gets the benefit of all the anger purchasers going to uplay instead while they and Epic conspire to eliminate key sites and retailers so they can erase consumer choice and reap higher margins.
Fuck Epic. Fuck Ubisoft. May you both have your own special pits in hell.
Fuck Epic. Fuck Ubisoft. May you both have your own special pits in hell.
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- #33
well they're not getting anger purchases from me, i can tell you that much ... i have absolutely no problem leaving all their games behind (even though i fucking LOVE AssCreed)