Remove all Ubisoft's games from Steam Store

[Joew]

I was waiting for the new realese from Ubisoft: Skull and Bones but for my unhappy surprise it will not be sold on Steam. Just Ubisoft official Store and Epic Games.
So why steam sells others ubisoft's games?

I suggest ban and remove all games from Ubisoft that are been selling here on steam. Why supports one publisher that NOT sells your new games on steam?

Let show them we want the option to buy the game at the store we most like!

[fluxtorrent]

because they will sell it here eventually and burning bridges is not smart business

[Yzal]

Imagine walking into a store and throwing a fit because the latest product is not available there.

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Originally posted by Joew:

I was waiting for the new realese from Ubisoft: Skull and Bones but for my unhappy surprise it will not be sold on Steam. Just Ubisoft official Store and Epic Games.
So why steam sells others ubisoft's games?

I suggest ban and remove all games from Ubisoft that are been selling here on steam. Why supports one publisher that NOT sells your new games on steam?

Let show them we want the option to buy the game at the store we most like!

People can buy the ubisoft games that are available on steam and you also have the option to not buy them. Win win.

[Joew]

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

because they will sell it here eventually and burning bridges is not smart business

I think it is not smart business fuc** up their clients, we players. So thats deal, one game releases, it not launches at steam because contract with another store, after one year or two maybe u can find it here. If they are loyal to their client, must say: No, or you sell your brand new game on releases here too or you will never sells this game here.
The catch is, it will force publishers sells the games here on steam for us. This is a win win.
Not give us (steam) an old product.

To not say it may be not your case, but in my country the games are too expensive due dollar price, so steam make a price compatible to our reality. The others store do not.
But we are not stupid, unfortunatelly we will never play those games, cause we do not buy neighter if the game cames to steam some years ago. Unfortunatelly we not play the game, but for the other hand, those publishers never gots our money.

[fluxtorrent]

Originally posted by Joew:

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

because they will sell it here eventually and burning bridges is not smart business

I think it is not smart business fuc** up their clients, we players. So thats deal, one game releases, it not launches at steam because contract with another store, after one year or two maybe u can find it here. If they are loyal to their client, must say: No, or you sell your brand new game on releases here too or you will never sells this game here.
The catch is, it will force publishers sells the games here on steam for us. This is a win win.
Not give us (steam) an old product.

To not say it may be not your case, but in my country the games are too expensive due dollar price, so steam make a price compatible to our reality. The others store do not.
But we are not stupid, unfortunatelly we will never play those games, cause we do not buy neighter if the game cames to steam some years ago. Unfortunatelly we not play the game, but for the other hand, those publishers never gots our money.

I'd say the people running the multibillion dollar business probably have more business acumen than yourself.

They remove ubisoft they lose ALL future sales of ubisoft games, they don't remove ubisoft and they? Make you post on the suggestions forum?

The fact is, what you have described is actually illegal. "Blackmailing" a company to release their games on your store "or else" is the kind of thing that triggers an anti-trust investigation for attempting monopolistic behavior.

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seeing as how i need both an ubisoft and a steam account to play it, i would be getting it from ubisoft anyways.

beyond that, nothing wrong with exclusives, as far as i am concerned. been around since selling things has

[Tolkien Book Fan]

A quick Google search shows that Ubisoft left Steam for Epic in 2019 and then came back to Steam this year while still working with Epic. So if Valve said "us or Epic" Ubisoft would presumably just go back to Epic exclusively. Valve threatening them would give them incentive to leave, not to stay.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by Eiswolfin:

Valve using their market power to harm other companies so that Valve can entice something in their favor? what can possibly go wrong with that?

That would be the same as Epic doing exclusivity deals to entice developers to come to their platform,,,,, Oh! they already do that.

They also enticed Ubisoft to release new games starting with The Division 2 on Epic Launcher and abandoning Steam.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by Joew:

I was waiting for the new realese from Ubisoft: Skull and Bones but for my unhappy surprise it will not be sold on Steam. Just Ubisoft official Store and Epic Games.
So why steam sells others ubisoft's games?

I suggest ban and remove all games from Ubisoft that are been selling here on steam. Why supports one publisher that NOT sells your new games on steam?

Let show them we want the option to buy the game at the store we most like!

Why would Ubisoft remove older games from Steam when it generates income for them.

Ubisoft chose to not sell Skull and Bones on Steam nor any new games starting with the Division 2.

Ubisoft sold 10x more copies of the Division 2 than the Division on their own platform because people preferred to use Steam. With the choice of Epic Launcher or Uplay Connect they bought on Uplay Connect. It was a win-win for them.

https://www.gamebyte.com/the-division-2-sold-10x-more-copies-after-ditching-steam/

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Joew:

So why steam sells others ubisoft's games?

Because Ubisoft put them on Steam for sale. Publishers choose which games they sell on Steam.

Originally posted by Joew:

I suggest ban and remove all games from Ubisoft that are been selling here on steam.

Ah yes, limit other peoples choices based on your personal desires. No, let's not do that.

Originally posted by Joew:

Why supports one publisher that NOT sells your new games on steam?

Because they can still earn money from them.

Originally posted by Joew:

Let show them we want the option to buy the game at the store we most like!

You already can, by voting with your wallet. And as it is now, people who want them can get the older Ubisoft games on Steam.

Steam removing these games would actually give players less choice.

Originally posted by Joew:

If they are loyal to their client,

Game developers/publishers also are Steams clients.

Originally posted by Joew:

The catch is, it will force publishers sells the games here on steam for us. This is a win win.

No, it won't.

Originally posted by Joew:

Unfortunatelly we not play the game, but for the other hand, those publishers never gots our money.

And that's fine. Believe it or not, but you don't have to play every game and not every player is important to those publishers.

[Joew]

Originally posted by Seeking Rivendell:

A quick Google search shows that Ubisoft left Steam for Epic in 2019 and then came back to Steam this year while still working with Epic. So if Valve said "us or Epic" Ubisoft would presumably just go back to Epic exclusively. Valve threatening them would give them incentive to leave, not to stay.

Do not need google searching for a basic thing. Ubisoft came back because steam sells much more than ubisoft store and epic games and any other, thals all.

Originally posted by Eiswolfin:

Valve using their market power to harm other companies, Ubisoft in this case of this suggestion, so that Valve can entice something through intimidation for their favor? what can possibly go wrong with that?

Of course. Steam can fight for their clients, not?
and its not a bad as u think. I am not suggesting steam do the sh1t as epic making things to just sells on steam. I am just ask for some support from steam, to steam bring us new releases, instead 2 years old game.
The problem with steam is the same way steam will loose from selling the others old games, steam is loosing clients just to not support us. My case and all of my friends, if the game is selling on steam, or at another store, that can deliver us a good price and good service too, i and all my friends chooses to buy at the other store. Why? Cause the others stores do not aceept those exclusivity policts and the others store are with us, gamers.
So, ok. Which side steam will choose? Players, publishers or neutral? Neutral steam is loosing. That would not happens, if steam support us a little more.

[Aachen]

Valve balances the interests of consumers and clients (developers and publishers) — they’re not neutral per se.

What stores do you frequent that seize their clients’ property against their wishes to sell it? Which mandate that a client cannot sell at all if they aren’t offering their most-recently products?

Also, in what sense is Steam losing?

[Joew]

Originally posted by Eiswolfin:

Valve throwing their weight around through intimidation won't be helpful to gamers at all, if anything it would piss off many dev/pubs in the industry and entice them to not want to support Steam, make it publicly known that Valve is using their weight to intimidate which would also piss off many customers as well.

There isn't anything good for customers and for the industry if Valve were to do your suggestion.

Yes, there will be. If Valve/Steam decides remove all others games from publishers that do not releases new games on steam too, next new game the publishers will sells on steam too, and will not accept excluse sales because if they decides, they will loose all sellings from steam.

Its is the case, i support you if u support me. It is so disgusting publishers uses steam to sell their old games that not sold good to sell after one or 2 years on steam.
You can take Satisfactory as exemple. It sells first at epic, one year after steam sells it too, one week steam get more money from selling than all year satisfactory was sold at epic store.

So the deal is, give steam new releases, and sell good since from beginning. Why make us wait one year to but at steam?

[Tito Shivan]

Once upon a time EA pulled Battlefield 3 off Steam to make it an Origin exclusive. They also made all following EA titles Origin exclusive too.
EA kept meaning business in Steam too, selling their older titles.

Fast forward to a few years ago. EA brought back all these titles to Steam, along EA Play, which became top seller titles making both Steam an EA a truckload of money.

Now Ubisoft is dancing the same song EA did...

[Fishie]

No because 1. I like their games and buy them. 2. Because they can sue valve for discrimination 3. It's the developers choice, no one can force a developer to bring a game to a certain platform. 4. You can ask the developer on their social media site why they didnt make it for steam or will they make it for steam and wait for a response. 5. Your not entitled to a game, again it developers choice but maybe if you have the money you could pay them to bring it to steam because everything revolves around moolah but sometimes that not the case a developer simply doesn't want to make it for steam for whatever reason they have, it their choice.