![]() The login screen: You open a website, click the login button, enter your username + password and log in to your account. If you somehow did manage to convince Uplay to work for once you are now faced with the login screen. If you bought the game on Steam then you have to flip a coin and if it lands on heads you are fucked and Uplay doesn’t think you own the game. Once it’s done updating it will start the game which will start Uplay which will probably start the updater again. If that happens you are fucked because now the “Auto Updater” will try to auto update your game, even though it’s already updated. If you start Anno 2070 then Uplay will also launch and probably kill the process and start the Auto Updater. The launcher is a complete dumpster fire and worse than the League of Legends client. Back when Assassin’s Creed Unity came out, Uplay thought my saves were ephemeral, and I had to replay the first 5 hours of the game more than 13 times. I can not count the number of times Uplay had some error or bug that lead to me not playing a game. To get to the main menu you first have to start the game either through Uplay, Steam or by starting the Anno5.exe directly. So what do I mean with “you can’t fucking play the game”? Let’s imagine an obstacle course where the finish is the main menu of the game. It might suck that the multiplayer servers of your favorite game go offline, but you could at least continue playing the campaign or the community might start hosting servers. A studio abandoning their games is nothing new and often not a problem. Now look at this 10-year-old game that you can’t even fucking play and Ubisoft completely abandoned it. ![]() Why the game is unplayable #ĭid you think Cyberpunk 2077 at launch was bad with all the glitches and bugs? At least you could play that game and somewhat enjoy it. But the ratings reflect the current state very well: you can’t fucking play the game. This might seem weird considering I just told you how awesome this game is. If you never played the game and went on Steam you might notice it has a Mixed rating. I played this game to death, it is my most played strategy game and I have often look back at the fun I had while playing. The game released in 2011, and I bought the Königsedition, a special deluxe edition containing the base game, the Deep Ocean DLC, a poster and the entire soundtrack on 3 CDs, back in 2013. This post remains available for the sake of preservation and because it’s funny reading the ramblings of an angry person. ![]() This post was written before 3.0 and the proposed solution only works with earlier versions. It also bears mentioning that games bought from third party stores can be integrated into Steam with community-made tools, and when they are launched this way, they are less intrusive than games bought on Steam that are bringing their own launcher.Edit (Sep 2022): Update 3.0 has made this post obsolete. I'm sure that these companies would respond by absolutely crippling the functionality of their game when launched this way, but I think that it needs to be possible. What I think should be mandatory is not a complete abolition of third-party launchers from the Steam store, but the ability to go straight into the game without any middlemen. Cross-play is not a valid defense for third-party launchers shoving themselves in the middle, because a wide variety of games implement it just fine without a whole-ass program between the storefront and the game.Their stupid launcher did, because it is probably trying to do a bunch of things that nobody wants. It broke games that were already working, because it's an additional point of failure.Steam Deck is aiming to create a console-like experience, and consoles absolutely do not allow games to shove launchers in the middle.It mainly only serves to tell the player, "hey, you could have bought this from our store! you should have bought this from our store! we exist, and we want to make sure you know that! give us more of your money and data!" It's not that the third-party game store exists, it's that it has shoved itself between the store the game was actually bought from and the game itself, which only negatively impacts the experience.Your non-productive and blatantly provocative reply ignores several facts.
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