Ubisoft Divorcing Steam (Removes Far Cry 4, Assassins Creed Unity & The Crew from Steam Store)

Looks like Ubisoft has decided to pull an Origin and remove all the upcoming games.

I wonder how this will work for people who got the Nvidia game code for buying laptop with 980m- would you be receiving Uplay codes or Steam codes? Anyone who already pre-ordered able to confirm if it is still in your Steam library?

Ubisoft's Big New Games Have Disappeared From Steam

Ubisoft's latest games won't be on Steam - PC Gamer

 

Meh, who wants to have two clients running in order to play a game.

 

Ubiquitin indeed.

 

Butt hurt Ubi$oft P R got my post nuked ROFL.

 

Mine are gone too.

I think it might be related to our use of illegal method of gaining access to the game if you know what I mean.... lol

 

Was only a matter of time, risky since at least EA have FIFA, that will make money till the end of time, I wonder how long AssCreed has left in it? Unless Far Cry is about to become a yearly title too? Wait for them to blame piracy on poor sales, not that nobody wants to use uplay and cut off the biggest market service for PC gamers in Steam. Along with poor ports, it seems ubisoft wont be in the PC market in a few years. Good luck with that.

 

They are fine with people using Xbox and PS4 networks to play with their console buddies, but for whatever reason they don't want us using the only real network for PC to join co-op and PVP with steambros.

Surprising that Steam is good enough for publishers of games selling over 20 million copies like COD and Skyrim, but not good enough for Assassin's Creed and FC4?

 

They are simply greedy. They will soon find out that people will not jump ship to Uplay. Origin as I said has FIFA and Battlefield, probably 2 of the most popular MP games online. Nobody on PC wants to sign into multiple DRM software.
PC gamers get treated like dirt by ubisoft. They did have a deal with MS (XB1 Xmas Creed bundle) and even screwed the PS4 game (AssCreed) up on purpose to match the rubbish XB1 version lol, this company is so fail.

I guess they don't want that PC money anymore. Sorry for anyone that's into Asscreed etc, they have made it clear, you want there games, buy XB1.

 

Yep I couldn't give two hoots about Ubihardfail. Ill start caring when they do. I'm not interested in playing games at thier filmic framerates. What a joke.

 

Do we really have to quote the relevant forum rule that has been there since forever:

You don't like ubi removing their games from steam, I can completely understand, say that you are gonna vote with your wallet and leave it at that.

 

...and then the war was won without firing a shot - good job you keyboard warriors, you princes of youtube comments

Looks like Ubi just added them back to Steam: Pre-purchase Far Cry® 4 on Steam

 

It's good that it's back, but I still won't be buying it on Steam. I made this mistake two times with ACII and ACIII. Will just get a Uplay key from GG/GMG/Amazon/etc... in a couple of years .

 

Wouldn't it be more of a mistake to buy the Uplay key? I have Uplay version of FC3, and I'm not able to participate in multiplayer with Steam friends.

With the steam version at least, you can join matches with friends who have the same game. Plus big picture mode, steam family sharing, steam achievements, publishing videos, guides, etc.

 

I don't play MP, so in my case not really. Nor have I interest in those other features you have mentioned.

 

Exactly. I really couldn't care less about Steam, and at least in the early days you could get by with NoSteam. Not so much these days.

 

Ubisoft has been on my no no list since they murdered Heroes of Might and Magic.

 

i was actually looking forward to ubi leaving steam. they have the most horrible customer service which i had the displeasure of experiencing twice. i truly think they are amongst, if not the most, hated publisher in the steam forums.

 

Living in San Francisco I would just hit up their office

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I have no love with Ubisoft and their damm DRM but I need them if they're to publish the new Brothers in Arms Battle of the Bulge.. That if it ever get's published.. 6 years now and no new BIA game.. I really am not impressed Ubishaft/Gearcrap..

 

Don't know if someone answered already, but they're Ubisoft codes.

 

Oh, no worries. Kotaku will write an editorial excusing Uplay, and echo Ubisoft on the idea that Uplay is an innovation in several unspecific ways, soon enough. And all will be back to normal.

 

I hope nobody believes the words coming out of Sh*taku's corrupt, lying mouth.

 

Is kotaku on Ubi's payroll? I know a lot of game review websites have 'sponsored' reviews, but i wasn't aware of any site being fully in a dev/publisher's pocket.

 

I have Battlefield 3 in Origin for half a year. Ask me how long did I play it? 15 minutes.
You ask how long would I play itif it was in Steam? Probably 30 hours!

 

Either way you have it. Nobody cares for how long you play.

 

It was his way of saying that Origin sucks.

No need to get condescending kiddo.


How about everyone stops being greedy and bloody adopts that Steam has the overhand?!

 

I know exactly what he said, so off. They get money from battlefield, they don't care if you played it for 30min. Also, Origin doesn't suck more that the piece of crap battlefield games, starting from 3.

 

That's because I got it for free. Now is it that good for Origin that I have it? LOL

 

Haha yes, I got the free version from Origin as well and never installed it.

It seems people generally use Origin for playing BF4 or when a new Bioware title comes out (maybe sports games?), but Steam is more of a community where you connect with friends and family, play lots of multiplayer different games, share your own videos and content, etc.

 

thats funny since Kotaku just gave a big no on AC Unity. You guys boycott one of the only few remaining trustworthy gaming press left.

 

^...er.. they have a problem with the Unity engine..? I haven't read kotaku in a while, but... um.. why?

No, that's not how it works. What we have, and what we've had in the gaming press for a fairly long time now is a two-sided arrangement between the magazines and the promotion firms the publishers hire. The magazines don't have enough original content to drive the stream of advertisement. And even if they did, the audience the advertisers want to reach don't tend to go for long analyses and so on. So the magazines would fairly consciously adopt promotion firm designed content. Some would not specifically disclose what that was, or just put some of the useful bits into the articles (some magazines did that well). Kotaku, for example, would for a while post that a piece was "sponsored content". That was another good way to do it. Not just because it differentiated the commercially sponsored content from the rest on the page, but because the writers would do something as different as possible from the smooth, sugar-coated advertisement camouflaged as a blog-post. And if they didn't, the readers wouldn't like it.

Since then, the two-sided arrangement has turned into a one-sided arrangement. And we've had any number of gaming press folks literally say that since the context they were in (a closed promotion event with handlers hanging over their shoulder, assisting them every way, even with actual sentences, and then bribing them with bling when they left, as well as threatening with an NDA) was not interesting for the reader, they didn't disclose that in the article. And - like one guy at shacknews said - that since they were convinced (by handlers and bling) to think what they did when they wrote the piece in question, they were always being honest. And there really was no need to share details that would somehow undermine their credibility. That's literally the argument from Kotaku and Totilo lately as well (if you for example listened to Totalbiscuit's talk with Stephen Totilo, who is now editor at Kotaku for some reason). You know.. "learn about synergy", seems to be the message here, like in any other business.

But the problem here is not really that the gaming press, like any other press, has a relationship with promotion firms or publishing companies. Or that individual writers have sources. But that it's no longer seen as a potentially very damaging situation for independent press, where you're getting outlets with cheap writers and high turnout rate, that really are just rehashing promotion content. Or, that it's not seen as a potential liability to have a very friendly relationship with the ones you're covering.

Meanwhile, lots of companies do actually hire people to blog "exclusively". Apple did this with no shame whatsoever a while back, and they still do. App-developers writing contracts for exclusivity releases. Nokia at one point had official contracts stating that people would write such and such amount of articles on Nokia products, while ignoring everything else. And bloggers signed that and were happy with it. One guy I know personally said that he had finally made it as a journalist. No irony.

The gaming press variant of that is the idea that a "gaming journalist" can take a promo statement or a whitepaper, write a few sentences on top of it, and then post it as their own thing. And that it becomes trustworthy because they have "credibility" - a currency that isn't actually exchangeable, but merely something applied to any product that bears their stamp of approval. They have now looked it over, and are providing a service to the readers by checking on the publiser folks. Eurogamer frequently does this with many of their articles, even if Richard Leadbetter at "Digital Foundry" probably is the worst. By at one point posting an "article" that had the same formatting, same paragraph headers and the same sentences, as one of Turn10's whitepapers for one of the Forza games.

Anyone in the gaming press would have access to that whitepaper - but of course you don't in your own nest, so no one would point out that 99% of the content Eurogamer printed was pilfered right off the publisher and developer's own promotion content. Because of the advertisement stream and expectation for getting content out at the right time as well - it's very likely that Leadbetter even did that without getting directly paid by Turn10. Although you could of course guess that getting a favourable article with limited critical content right at launch would be worth something to the magazine and the desk's advertisement stream via Turn 10's promotion partners. Which is how this "pressure" turns up.

And that's how we've arrived at where we are now. With for example Stephen Totilo essentially just stating, over and over again, that he is trustworthy, and that you should trust him. And not mind any of the things that may perhaps make his credibility a bit light. That when they don't feel a need to disclose certain things, then that's just because they want to protect the readers from getting a negative impression of their credibility, etc. That if they won't disclose their advertisement channels outside the clicks they have on the web - then that is their choice and no one should mind, and so on.

Stuff like that goes unchallenged when you're walking around in an expo hall and talking to promotion folks now. There's no one challenging anyone, in fact, because that's "rude". After all, you've been invited to "their event". And besides: "learn about synergy!". It's just how things are done. Because no commercially driven magazine - in print or otherwise - is actually dependent on subscriber revenue anymore. And on top of that, you actually get readers who prefer their content "directly from the source", as they say, because then it's "reliable".

You've seen it on the forum here as well: "I'll have to wait until Intel releases their own tests and numbers before I believe it". I mean, I can't think of a worse indictment of how corrupt and untrustworthy the press has ended up than that.

 

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Good they deserve it.

This Facebook comment is so spot on it hurts:

 

Zing! Ouch!

 

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But it's OK, we all know that Ubi is gonna blame PC player for pirecy and crap sales.

 

First time i've heard of this.

I was on Steam yesterday and they were doing a massive Far Cry sale which I got in on. The Far Cry franchise pack for $10. It includes Far Cry 1-3. And they were still as of yesterday listing Far Cry 4 and Assassins Creed Unity for sale as well on their front page.

 

That's because you're extremely late...