Earlier today, some reports suggested that Ubisoft’s latest titles (Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Far Cry 4 and The Crew) were removed from Steam UK. Naturally, we thought this was a region thing, therefore we did not pay attention to them. However, the French company went ahead and removed those games from all regions. Yeap, while Far Cry 4 and Assassin’s Creed: Unity were previously available on Steam, they are currently nowhere to be found.
Ubisoft has not revealed the reasons behind this decision. Both of these titles are currently available via Uplay store, Ubisoft’s retail partners and other digital distributors.
And by other digital distributors, we’re referring to GamersGate and Origin.
Yeap, while this may shock you, Assassin’s Creed: Unity and Far Cry 4 are available via EA’s digital distribution service.
There must be something going on in the background, otherwise we seriously cannot understand Ubisoft’s decision, especially when Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Far Cry 3 are being sold via Valve’s distribution service.
Assassin’s Creed: Unity and Far Cry 4 release later this year!
UPDATE:
All of the above games are back on Steam!
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For me, personally it won’t make a difference, i wasn’t going to buy the new Ubisoft games anyway, and with their new crappy unoptimized half-assed ports out of Steam i can only wish luck to the new EA.
and they want sales? seriously ubisoft… stop releasing on PC, just don’t.. this is just ridiculous
#NoPlay
No Steam, No Party :p
True dat!
Valve causes piracy because of their corrupted and a lot of the time illegal practices. not too mention all the problems games have when Steam is involved. Pirated games that bypass Steam do not have problems…HMMM .. Yeah so don’t even bother trying ti argue against that.
I used to think you couldn’t get dumber than EA.
Then I met Ubisoft.
Crown = Stolen.
Damn EA, you still can’t steal CoD’s thunder, & now you’re losing the title of “Worst Company” as well…… Pathetic.
ea is putting visceral to work on bf, ubisoft is putting everyone to work on far cry and creed.
Ea loves preorrder dlcs and season passes so does ubisoft.
I hope both of them go bankrupt.
Guess what?They are afraid of of..Community Hub from Steam.They dont like PC users who criticize every part of their games. 😀
Or maybe they wanna be only on Uplay&Origin,and they dont like Steam.
Well who cares…ubifail.
Maybe in the future they will close every comment on Metacritic.
As much as I like Steam this is a smart & brave move. Uplay and Origin need to be their own thing, that is, a competitor to Steam and the least they can do is put their games exclusively on their own Platform.
Steam, GOG, Uplay, Origin etc all need to be be competitive with each other. This will only benefit us as they will offer great deals trying to beat other. Right now Steam is the lead and it will probably stay like this for a long time to come but that lead needs to be reduced to have a healthier ecosystem on PC.
People need to understand Steam takes a 30% cut from a game sale and on their own platform that 30% cut is not there.
This
is not competition at all, this is blocking competition by removing a product from his competitor. Competition would be having another store
selling the same games. For example you can buy Valve games on uPlay. That is competition.
And every store (Amazon, GMG, GOG, etc., takes a 30$% cut.
I was about to post the same thing ¬¬
COMPETITION? LOL. If you want competition let the games to be on all digital distributors so people can choose where they want to buy the game from. What about BF4 to be on Steam, so I just not to be “FORCED” to use Origin.
how can bf4 be on steam.. steam does not even have bf3…
Ubisoft don’t want to sell their games at the normal AAA price of £39.99 and want to charge PC users an extra £10 the same as console games, EA do the same on Origin and it’s £49.99 for their AAA games. My goodness, even COD AW is £39.99 on Steam and that’s a top AAA game.
Ubisoft and EA will make more money per PC game than the console version by a lot and it means they don’t have to sell that many at £49.99.
It’s probably a dirty little secret that they are making good money on PC, I mean EA do.
Well it’s not really a secret. PC accounted for 16% sales revenue, behind only the PS4 at 21% as per their latest report. Ubisoft isn’t abandoning PC anytime soon. At least they better not for their own sake.
And they won’t. Now that they finally have larger dev teams for PC now. ACU on PC is going to shock a lot of people. It’s the turnaround Ubisoft needed for a great while now.
oh it does shock people allright, mereley by the requirments.
yeah a 680 big woop game wise a $220 760 beats it. Infact I am sure even my 750ti will play it just fine. Not on it’s highest settings but enough to put the xbox1/ps4 to shame. Now my 970 is more then enough for the game.
edit: speaking of 760’s… When I saw ACU gameplay on a 760 almost a month ago it looked amazing. And it sure was no console cinematic look..
“Infact I am sure even my 750ti will play it just fine.”
I am betting on it.
if not then somethign is up with ubisoft amazing porting skils.
Hence that’s why I mentioned their bigger PC dev team. Pretty much sums up the 5 month WD patch… Because normally that never would of happened.
Stop saying a GTX 760 beats a GTX 680.
In games it goes toe to toe… and most times is ever better. Benchmarks don’t mean jack next to real game performance
760 is not better than 680. it’s more like 670 or maybe less in all games. but 760 striker will beat 680 in some bechmarks and lose in some others. it’s safe to say 680>670>760 . 680=760strike>670
either way it’s a 5 fps difference in games.. sometimes in favor of the 760.
never in favor of 760, a reference 670 will beat it in all games, a reference 680 will destroy it. but again gtx760 strike (or good OCed ones) is a beast and that card can beat 680 in most games by 1 to 4fps and lose in some other titles by 1 to 4fps. just like my card, a gtx660ti is less than all of them but with my clock i can beat a reference 680 in some games and benchmarks by 1fps at least
in favor yes. I seen stock 760 vs stock 680 in games like bio Shock Infinite, Crysis 3 with a 5 fps lead vs the 680.
Bioshock Infinite:
5fps~ more on 680 stock
Crysis3:
4fps~ more on 680 stock
according to guru3d and anandtech reviews.
yeah and that was when the card came out. not today’s drivers.
today’s drivers pushed 680 as well as 760
well yeah but I am going off what I seen from friends who own the cards as well as the same I5 3670. Not the same memory or hd’s but those don’t effect fps at all mainly for games.
sure, according to passmark my 660ti is 1.1% better than a 680 but that doesn’t mean a stock 660ti is better than a 680 because it’s not. it depends on many things but again all of them are good cards and very close to each other. afterall 1 or 4fps doesn’t run unoptimized games better, in real world they are really close and bad games performs bad on all of them
ether way my main point was a 760 will run ACU/FC4, The Crew, And the Division just fine 🙂
of course. they must be, the crew already locked at 30fps and ran always on 30fps on cards with much less power and years older than 760 etc… and for FC4 this card meet the high system reqs, and it must run ACU just fine
sorry but the Crew for PC was never locked at 30fps on PC not even in it’s beta did it have a locked fps. they just give req for 30/60fps gameplay
“The Crew beta locked to 30 frames per second on PC”
In closed beta the game has had an artificial 30fps lock, but speaking
to TechRadar, the Crew’s lead designer Serkan Hassan confirmed that
Ubisoft is following through on an earlier (albeit slightly uncertain)
promise that it was working to deliver 60fps on PC for the finished
game. “A few people in the closed beta found ways of unlocking the frame rate. My understanding at this moment is that we’ll be allowing players to do that come the full version as well”
so it was locked to 30fps but with mods/tools or editing some files some people were able to ran it on 60fps.
60fps is a promise for final build, but it’s some kind of ubisoft’s promise
oh yes the closed beta was locked that’s right. But ubisoft has gave req for 30/60 fps. It’s not a broken promise
edit and I notice you got that quote from gamespot…
we will see but whatever, i’m more intersted in the crew than ACU
but yes that gamespot article was interesting but was made before ubisoft gave out spec req’s for 30fps and 60fps.
30 fps Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX580 or AMD Radeon 6870 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or higher)
60 fps Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX670 or AMD Radeon 7870 (2048MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or higher)
You all need to quit using Benchmarks like they mean anything.
BENCHMARKS DO NOT PROVE A DAMN THING and neither do graphs. I can make a graph read however I want to.
Why it’s just a push like EA did with Origin… does not effect a game in general…
16% means nothing on it’s own, they don’t tell you how much is cost to make the PC version and how much they made on it.
It does mean something to Ubisoft, considering they are the ones who mentioned it. Previously PC figures used to be dismal compared to console in their reports. And now it’s second. If they’re happy, everyone’s happy.
PC’s were only dismal because companies didn’t release the PC copies at the same time consoles got released. You cannot compare console and PC sales to each other when the companies are purposely releasing the PC copies of console games 6 months to a year later.
Yes, however I’m merely going by the officially stated figures. But like I said, if the official figures are this high despite such delays between the console and PC versions, it only demonstrates how profitable the PC can ultimately be.
“My goodness, even COD AW is £39.99 on Steam and that’s a top AAA game.” $59.99 is far from $39.99 in USA And here when I open Steam it’s $59.99
Point is, there is no game on Steam priced like Ubisoft and EA games at £49.99.
They are just as high on steam when I open it up… That’s my point. Everything is the same price regardless if you pre order it or not. At least in my Country it is
Well I don’t live in your country, the prices I stated are UK prices from Steam, Origin and UPlay.
£=/=$ ?
$ US currency
I know, I’ve asked if maybe he meant that is £ is different from $. Hence the comment bellow 🙂
LOL… You lost it, right?
lost it? it’s the price on steam…
100 million plus steam users is just a number anyways, just like resolution and fps…and who cares that everyone hates uplay and origin and steam has good deals that will boost sales…ubisoft shot themselfs in the foot with a harpoon gun.
I don’t think they care when Ubisoft can inflate the game prices by £10 on the PC in the online stores they choose and UPlay, just like EA don’t care and have been doing the same.
i dont touch origin so you telling me ea has inflated prices too?
Yep.
Ubi games are back on steam not on Uk though.
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DURKA DURKA IS A COMPANY SHILL.
Only company shills use pricing to deflect how bad Steam really is and justify Valve’s crappy distribution service.
It’s a proven fact that Steam causes all games using it, to have all sorts of problems that do not happen if Steam was not involved. Pirated games PROVE THIS, because pirated games run fine without Steam. So there is no debating that.
If this is a test by UBISOFT to see if the same problems occur without Steam, they will see that the problems people post when Steam was involved, cease to exist now that Steam has been removed. This will hopefully get the concept across that Steam is Destroying games and doing nothing to help them.
its as if they want people to pirate their games, so they can say ‘99% of PC gamers are pirates anyway, so we dont need to optimise.’
It’s not about making/losing money you meatstick. It’s about not having problems playing their games. Sure they may not make money at first, but when people see the games run 100% better without Steam, the monetary gain will Sky rocket and make up for that. People want to play their games without the kind of problems Steam causes games to have.
Don’t bother trying to counter argue that because Pirated games PROVE Steam causes problems.
Use Steam = Game has problems
Pirated = Removed Need for Steam = no problems.
Steam is added back into the equation = Problems Start right back up again
That’s proof that cannot be argued against.
Wtf ubisoft?
Its like they digging a huge hole to shove themselfs into along with their precious uplay.
Remember where ubisoft said that they gonna improve on pc?
https://i.imgur.com/Q3OjVSu.gif
Epic Linus moment and true!
All Ubisoft wants to do is push their Uplay. Now that they finally have better Dev teams for PC they probable are cutting cost by not having the games on steam. I am not worried since I have the games ordered in hard copy. Bright side it you only need Uplay open and not both steam and uplay.
They just need to totally revamp Uplay and how it functions. I am just shocked The Division is going to have a demo…
“They just need to totally remove Uplay.”
There, fixed. 😉
Not going to happen. Besides in five days when ACU kicks off good nobody is going to care
Sad but true. :/
As almost nobody cares about ACU right now.
say’s you… and a very small % of people who buy games… 5 more days till the complainers rejoice.
This is even more stupid than saying “30 FPS doesn’t feel right for action games”. Ubisoft is digging their own grave in the PC gaming market. I stopped buying EA games when they moved all of them to Origin and now it’s time to ignore Ubisoft stuff forever.
Well ain’t that such a shame…
People is talking about 30% steams takes from game sales, like if the UPLAY platform didnt cost nothing to Ubisoft, so, maybe Ubi will get the 100% of their sales on PC, but the cost of having an own platform will consume a part from those earnings.
Uplay sucks, now every ubiboy will forced to use that platform to play that parkour game and the another “shoot at everything that moves” game.
Good luck!!!
good riddance
Guess that means The Division wont come to steam…. lame.
It’s funny, just found this piece of news and decided to open my dusty
ubisoft client. And as of now, it already updated itself 10+ times and
still going for it.
Yeah, I agree with what most people are saying here that their client software is not the best at all.
I was actually interested in unity for co op with my brother and wife,
but I’m just not sure anymore. I’m not very patient nowadays with buggy
software, as they already had enough time to improve their service.
I’m a programmer as well, so it’s easy for me to say that they are just
being lazy (or incompetent) when dealing with improving uplay.
Edit: Damm it, still trying to update itself. Had to close it down and probably will need to reinstall this bloody thing.
maybe the issue is DRM related 😀 steam works as a drm and uplay is another drm, maybe they pulled those games to use a newer drm and it couldn’t be steam+uplay+new drm but it’s now uplay+new drm ?
Are they intentionally getting out of the PC market? Are microsoft and sony paying them to do this to themselves?
The games are back on Steam.
Wow Ubisoft is just like “come at me bro! Who’s the biggest dumbass of us all!”
Ubisoft games are really the only games where i support piracy, i will never ever pay for those games. Even EA with their customer crap is better than this.
Looks to me as though this is a test to see how those games run without Steam. Everyone posted all these problems when the games were run through Steam, now they will see how all the problems these games had when Steam was involved, will disappear, now that Steam has been removed from the equation.
Games like Far cry 4 and Assassin’s Creed: Unity, DO NOT BELONG ON STEAM because It already has a service and that service is called UPLAY. It’s already been a proven fact that when a game developers involves Steam in their games, the games always wind up having all sorts of problems that would not be happening if Steam was not involved. Pirated copies PROVE this.
The only games that should ever be on Steam are games made by Valve.