Oh! They... they listened?!! That's refreshing news!

That's cool. Now do Denuvo.

Here's hoping EA does this with Origin, next. I wanna play Titanfall 2. I had heard it was supposed to run well in Linux, but I ran into problems the last time I tried installing it. IIRC, I ended up buying it on both Steam and Origin just to try and get it to work.

Please more of this. External launchers can suck my nutts

Using a launcher to launch a launcher to launch a game is dumb as hell.

I remember a time when games were just installed on my computer. No external launcher

Great news! Now remove denuvo and undisable family sharing, and I’ll remove Ubisoft from my no-buy list

Hoping to see this update come to Watch Dogs and Assassin’s Creed. Currently can’t get it to work in Linux and can’t be bothered to troubleshoot when I have other games to play.

Good this was a issue when I wanted to play Watch Dogs 1 on Steam Deck.

I might actually buy some Ubisoft games again, pirating is 1000x better for their shit. Some stuff is literally unplayable the way they want you to do it, like Far Cry 3.

Never should've been there in the first place!

I’m glad it’s highlighted on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown in particular, because that was the first game I’d bought from Ubisoft in years, and the extra launcher deterred me from considering buying any of their other games for a long while still.

This is like the only good game they put out in forever. Great combat, I had fun coming up with combos in it, but I dropped it eventually because it dragged on for too long, and the further I progressed, the fewer enemies I could juggle, so I was having less and less fun.

That clone fight was peak though. Reminded me of an almost identical fight in F.I.S.T: Forged in Shadow Torch—yet another metroidvania with awesome combat and combo system.

I wouldn't mind additional launchers and accounts, if it was optional without hiding core game elements behind it. A game must launch and the base game be playable on Steam without additional online DRM, software launchers and account requirement. For single player games that are fine to play offline.

Ditching the launcher is great, but I'm guessing they will still require you to create a Ubisoft account and link it in so you can hop over to their store when it "improves". Better, but a day late and a dollar short

Haven't seen it mentioned yet but besides the obvious win, the game is excellent! Highly recommended for metroidvania fans

Bye

What? What's the trick? Ubisoft doesn't do good things....

Wow, good on Ubisoft. I usually don't trust them, so I do wonder if they are trying something shitty, but this seems cool.

A lot of game launchers can already be skipped by putting:
--skip-launcher
In the game properties under steam

They are installing a new package through steam, "Ubisoft Connect Services" and are trialing it alongside Prince of Persia and so I removed both when I saw the download pop up. I'm so done with Ubisoft, triple a in general, and spyware entirely.

I can play Trials again?

Still no ever going to give them a cent but it's good that they suck less

So am i finally going to be able to play my games that ive bee locked out of? They wont let me change the password on their shitty launcher because the email tied to it is long dead, and Microsoft wont let me revive it.

Wait, who am i kidding?

Prince of Persia: the most crown is such a good game...