Is the Ubisoft launcher required for the Steam version?

[Scribor]

Hello,
Can you play the game without having to launch the horrendous Ubisoft launcher? I'm asking before buying it on Steam.

[Jeffus Maximus]

Publicado originalmente por Caduryn:

Publicado originalmente por Jeffus Maximus:

This should be illegal. I paid for the game. I should actually own the game. Forcing me to use their launcher effectively makes this a service, or a lease. The FTC should do something about this.

You never ever *owned* any Game....
All you ever did since Gaming exist is buying a Licenze to play it.

Well there’s the dumbest thing I’ll read all day.

<looks over at forty years of video games on multiple platforms that I own>

Steam trolls… Ugh…

[Gibbo]

You know I'm not happy about jumping through hoops to play games, but to boycott this game is madness as it is the greatest Anno ever and runs just fine on Ubi. You couldn't have picked a worse game to boycott lmao. It's like crack cocaine. A stunning game.

[Cocytus]

Publicado originalmente por Gibbo:

You know I'm not happy about jumping through hoops to play games, but to boycott this game is madness as it is the greatest Anno ever and runs just fine on Ubi. You couldn't have picked a worse game to boycott lmao. It's like crack cocaine. A stunning game.

if it was the greatest anno ever then it wouldn't require uplay, since it does it's already worse than 1701 and even more behind 1503 the actually best anno there ever was despite having no functional multiplayer mode back in the day

[Sekij]

Publicado originalmente por ⛧Cocytus⛧:

well, i simply had steam from basically day 1 on my first account back then since i was rather active on cs1.5 and 1.6 later on, never imagined it would get this big but now that it is it's definitely the only launcher i'll ever install willingly.

and sure, if you wanna go for epic for the "cheaper" games at the cost of your dignity and privacy go for it, i couldn't stop you anyway

I wasnt talking about Epic that one is just for free game licenses and well i also already use Windows so the prvacy part is looooong over.

But ya when Anno 1800 launched i bought it 20% off from Ubisoft store because of those Gold Points you get from buying games there and getting them from Achievements... so i played abit of For Honor Campaign to get the achievements and used the 20% off thingy.

Steam seemed to be always as the most hostile one altough they hide it really well because they "try" to be as user friendly as possible but really hostile towards game devs which no user cares anyway. While Epic was the first launcher that was hostile toward User with the exclusivty (even tho everything was kinda steam exclusive already).

But i also remember when launchers where just part of games, so i saw steam as something simlar as a random f2p mmo launcher that updates ♥♥♥♥ only i was pissed that i had to extra create a steam account.

[Caduryn]

Publicado originalmente por Jeffus Maximus:

Publicado originalmente por Caduryn:

You never ever *owned* any Game....
All you ever did since Gaming exist is buying a Licenze to play it.

Well there’s the dumbest thing I’ll read all day.

<looks over at forty years of video games on multiple platforms that I own>

Steam trolls… Ugh…

Get your Facts, *owning* it would mean you could do whatever you want, and thats wrong.

You ALWAYS only bought the License to play it.

"Because you have never owned a game you bought. You own a license to the software on the media but you don't actually own the software itself. So there is no difference between buying a digital and physical copy as far as ownership or rights are concerned."

[Cocytus]

i'd say get your facts straight as well caduryn...
while you're not entirely wrong, at least as far as ownership goes there is a major difference:

- with a digital game, especially on a service platform you might lose it at any given time with nothing you could do about it

- with a physical copy or a DRM free (no launchers, no backend activation etc) game you can always install it and play, no matter if the platform you've bought it on goes bankrupt or anything else.

now with a game like anno 1800 that would mean you'd lf either steam or ubisoft close up for good you'd be fu**ed, if it would only require steam it would be a safer bet since steam is less likely to go out of business, if it was available on GOG without any 3rd party launcher/backend requirements at all you'd have it forever

so while you only ever buy a license for hardcopies/DRM-free games, you effectively only pay a finite service whenever you buy from a store platform that's required to launch it

[Jeffus Maximus]

Publicado originalmente por Caduryn:

Publicado originalmente por Jeffus Maximus:

Well there’s the dumbest thing I’ll read all day.

<looks over at forty years of video games on multiple platforms that I own>

Steam trolls… Ugh…

Get your Facts, *owning* it would mean you could do whatever you want, and thats wrong.

You ALWAYS only bought the License to play it.

"Because you have never owned a game you bought. You own a license to the software on the media but you don't actually own the software itself. So there is no difference between buying a digital and physical copy as far as ownership or rights are concerned."

You aren't the dumbest person on Earth, but you better hope they don't die.

[Bored Peon]

Publicado originalmente por Gibbo:

You know I'm not happy about jumping through hoops to play games, but to boycott this game is madness as it is the greatest Anno ever and runs just fine on Ubi. You couldn't have picked a worse game to boycott lmao. It's like crack cocaine. A stunning game.

Oh I know it is pointless, because for every person that say @#$% that company there is two or three more new customers.

I also see it this way, spending less time in that game, also gives me more time to try games from other companies that aint burned me multiple times in the past.

[SuperSix]

You're probably better off buying on Uplay. No telling if Ubisoft will pull some hinky bs again.

[Caduryn]

Publicado originalmente por SuperSix:

You're probably better off buying on Uplay. No telling if Ubisoft will pull some hinky bs again.

Doesnt matter if they pull Steam, it uses Uplay anyway....
You can even start the Game completly without Steam.

[FPStewy]

Publicado originalmente por Caduryn:

You never ever *owned* any Game....
All you ever did since Gaming exist is buying a Licenze to play it.

It's worst than that, read the EULA's from a few games and it will make you question everything. In the gaming industry everyone is seen as a permanent criminal and treated as such.

and the very first comment I always see is "who cares"

[Caduryn]

Publicado originalmente por FPStewy:

Publicado originalmente por Caduryn:

You never ever *owned* any Game....
All you ever did since Gaming exist is buying a Licenze to play it.

It's worst than that, read the EULA's from a few games and it will make you question everything. In the gaming industry everyone is seen as a permanent criminal and treated as such.

and the very first comment I always see is "who cares"

Ah.... thats why everyone who plays Games are send into Prison..... makes sense now....





Maybe less Conspiracy Theory or Paranoia would help.

[FPStewy]

Publicado originalmente por Caduryn:

Maybe less Conspiracy Theory or Paranoia would help.

and that's always the 2nd comment.

[Bored Peon]

Publicado originalmente por FPStewy:

Publicado originalmente por Caduryn:

Maybe less Conspiracy Theory or Paranoia would help.

and that's always the 2nd comment.

Except when you try to play Ubisoft's older games the broken Uplay launcher for them is no longer a conspiracy.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/48210/discussions/0/3717188878648808906/
There is Ubisoft STILL selling games on Steam that do not even work because of the broken Uplay launcher.

A company wants their own launcher, fine whatever. However it is basic common sense and decency to your customer to make sure the launcher works for ALL the games.

That is why I boycott Ubisoft games.

[Scribor]

Didn't expect my question to ignite such a heated debate! Even though I hate having to launch multiple layers of software just to play a game, I kinda made my peace with it, my main problem with Ubisoft launcher is that it doesn't work properly with a VPN when every other platform under the sun work perfectly fine, Ubisoft launcher will disconnect from the servers and kick you out of your play session even on SINGLE PLAYER games, and their solution is "we advice not using a VPN", so pardon my French but f*ck you Ubisoft.