Ubisoft has just announced the next part in its The Crew series, The Crew Motorfest. The Crew Motorfest will release in 2023, will be exclusive on Ubisoft Connect and Epic Games Store, and below you can find its debut in-engine 4K trailer.
This is a surprise move as Ubisoft has released its older games on Steam. Normally, you’d expect this new one to also hit Valve’s distribution service. However, and as we can see at the end of the video, Ubisoft has only listed Ubisoft Connect and Epic Games Store.
The Crew Motorfest promises to build on the legacy of The Crew franchise to make it the best open-world action-driving experience in the series. Players will race through the city streets of Honolulu, go down the ashy volcano slopes, adventure deep in the lush rainforest, drift along the curvy mountain roads, or just chill down on the sunny beach.
Enjoy!
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who cares?
Apparently only the user named Epic Games Store and one or two swivel-eyed anti-Steam ‘tards.
So its basically an inferior Forza Horizon for PlayStation and Amazon Luna.
Meh, zero interest in online only games
nice
First they copycat Test Driver with some Forza for TC and TC2.
Now they go full blast copy&paste of Forza lmao.
This company only can copycat other games.
their own games are copycats of their other franchises just wow. I heard they recycle as much code as possible, they got someone whos job is to place waypoints for races.
Oh look another game by ubisoft no one is going to care about
Lol. Come back to “Steam” because need money.
But continue to release new games on uplay and epic because… Ubisoft can never learn anything.
Blame steam for taking a huge cut from developers.
Imagine you made something and Valve went ahead and took 30% of the money you made from every sale. And then the government wants a piece of the pie too. No wonder so many game developers struggle to make a profit.
All of these tech monopolies taking cuts from developers while creating nothing themselves, like Steam, Apple, Android, etc, are useless leeches.
Steam is a monopoly full of DRM. Steam is a platform where you don’t own the games when you buy them because they can’t be played without Valve’s permission. Yet many PC gamers are cheering this on, because they’re simply chicken littles affraid that if Steam is threatened, their invested Steam library is threatened.
PC gamers developed a Stockholm Syndrome regarding Valve. Defending their own captor that has complete control over their gaming experience.
When a company like Ubisoft goes their own way, takes risks by not releasing on Steam, breaking Steam’s stranglehold on gaming, today’s PC gamers cry about it, scared of change. PC gamers from the 90s would be cheering this on, they weren’t slaves to a single platform like Steam back then, developers released their own games and games.
LOL you make it sound like Valve takes some tax cut out of the blue, completely ignoring all the services they provide (a storefront with individual pages for games, forums for each individual game, virtually unlimited bandwidth so people can download your game, chat, seamless patch downloading and installation, etc, etc, etc…)
He might soon show us on his Timmy Tencent doll where Gaben allegedly touched him!
first, There is a big difference between being the biggest storefront where the majority of people prefer to buy from because of their services than being a monopoly. Which is steam is not. You have Ubi connect, Orgin, Epic Store, and countless others. The fact you can buy every single game that is on steam from a thirdparty seller like Greenmangaming, or Humble store without giving one cent to steam already makes your point dumb. You can’t do that in the Epic store. Second you, you say these monopolies taking a cut from developers while creating nothing? Lol are you 12 years old? you think 30 million concurrent player got to steam out of thin air because they did nothing? You dont even have a clue of what you are talking about. or what it takes to run a company and more importantly a sucessfull one. I’d gladly pay 30% cut to sell it on the biggest platform with the most players. Dont want give a cut to steam dont sell it on Steam. No one is forcing you! Good luck to you everywhere else.
The steam cut has nothing to do with anything, after all, 70% of a large number of sales is a lot better than 90% of a mediocre number of sales.
Ubisoft wouldnt do sh*t if they werent getting the bribe from Timmy Tencent.
And last I checked, Ubi is taking the same cut on their store.
Tencent, owner of at least a 40% stake in Epic Games, also owns a 5% stake in Ubisoft so that will go some way in explaining things.
As for Steam’s supposed 30% cut then it’s no more than what Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, GOG, Apple and Google all take.
I say “supposed” because it’s not actually 30% in all instances because once a game has succeeded past a certain point then the cut is reduced to 25% and then down to 20% for the most successful games.
Check again. Epic Game Store takes only a 12% cut for all games. Regardless of revenue.
That’s why Ubisoft releases on Epic Game Store and not on Steam.
If Steam offered Ubisoft a fair 12% cut like Epic Game Store, they would release on Steam too.
Don’t blame Ubisoft for Steam’s greed.
Check again. Epic Game Store takes only a 12% cut for all games. Regardless of revenue.
That’s why Ubisoft releases on Epic Game Store and not on Steam.
If Steam offered Ubisoft a fair 12% cut like Epic Game Store, they would release on Steam too.
Don’t blame Ubisoft for Steam’s greed.
Check again. Epic Game Store takes only a 12% cut for all games. Regardless of revenue.
That’s why Ubisoft releases on Epic Game Store and not on Steam.
If Steam offered Ubisoft a fair 12% cut like Epic Game Store, they would release on Steam too.
Don’t blame developers for not releasing on Steam.
Blame Steam’s greed, revenue needed so Gabe Newell can fly off to New Zealand to his private mansion when a pandemic breaks out.
Why don’t those developers completely ditch steam and make their games epic store exclusive forever instead of releasing on steam one or two years later? Why feed the platform at all that’s harming them so much?
A developer like Ubisoft releasing a game like Assasin’s Creed Valhalla 3 years late on Steam, likely has little to do with making any money from sales. You could get the game for $10 on Steam during sales.
I assume it is to get some extra exposure for their franchise. Ubisoft is making Assassin’s Creed Mirage, and any publicity is good publicity.
I don’t think Ubisoft cares about how much money they make from Steam years after release. They do care about people enjoying Assasin’s Creed and buying Mirage when it releases on Ubisoft or Epic’s store.
A developer like Ubisoft releasing a game like Assasin’s Creed Valhalla 3 years late on Steam, likely has little to do with making any money from sales. You could get the game for $10 on Steam during sales.
I assume it is to get some extra exposure for their franchise. Ubisoft is making Assassin’s Creed Mirage, and any publicity is good publicity. It is also to familiarise players with the Ubisoft ecosystem, since even the game on Steam uses the Ubisoft launcher.
I don’t think Ubisoft cares about how much money they make from Steam years after release. They do care about people enjoying Assasin’s Creed and buying Mirage when it releases on Ubisoft, Epic Store or Game Pass.
Check what again, you didn’t refute anything I said, or read it carefully, from what I can tell…
I doubt you know what a duopoly or oligopoly is since you cleary do NOT know what a monopoly is.
Tax the rich nonetheless right?
DRM is bad though.
I doubt you know what a duopoly or oligopoly is since you cleary do NOT know what a monopoly is.
Tax the rich nonetheless right?
DRM is bad though.
Hence why i stopped buying games. Gamepass ftw or f*k off.
Foreskin, oops Forspoken is 80 Euros. 1 year of Gamepass for an absolute piece of shait. No sir. Not anymore. The future is grim.
Btw, only 6% of game developers believe the cut Steam takes is justified.
So before you attack gaming companies for not releasing on Steam. Maybe ask why 94% of developers don’t think Steam is treating developers fairly.
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Let’s be honest here and ground this:
at the VERY LEAST, HALF of the units games sell is because they’re on Steam. It’s THE defacto storefront, display into the world, ecosystem, platform… plus the actual bandwidth and online infrastructure.
Steam is a disproportionately massive amount of added value to games as a product, to the point where if the games acks it, it’s pretty much dead.
Other games in company-specific stores are F2P BS and maaaybeee some paid outlier.
So i kinda take it like “yeah, they’re pretty much making us most of the money, i couldn’t complain too much.”
Imagine Steam providing these developers with a huge platform with millions of daily players and exposing your game to them all. Wow what an amazing service.
What about consoles they take 30%. Not a problem there?
You can use whatever launcher you want. Steam is my choice so I’ll wait until all those games that don’t come out on steam eventually do and I pick them up for a nice solid 50% off… Which is more than paying 30% to Steam.
It has nothing to do with Stockholm Syndrome. I as a consumer CHOOSE to use the BEST launcher for ME. Couldn’t care less about the developers 😀
Microsoft already decreased its cut it takes from 30% to 12% on PC to match Epic Game Store. Afaik Microsoft now takes only a 12% cut on consoles too, but there’s little data out there.
I have no idea how much Nintendo takes, Nintendo likes to keep things a secret.
Sony still takes a 30% cut, so does Steam (unless you make over $10 million on Steam with your game, in which case the 30% cut is reduced to 25%, but most developers make nowhere near that).
Apple still takes a cut of 30%, but are under enormous legal pressure over it, and Apple has already made a deal with some developers to lower the cut to 15%. They also have backdoor deals with some big developers and are offering lower cuts to tame lawsuits. I don’t think Apple can sustain the 30% cut for much longer.
Yeah but as a consumer why would I care? It’s not as if these games are cheaper on other platforms. How is it that the saving isn’t passed to the consumer at all? Not even half? Couldn’t care less how much any of these platforms charge.
Why do you expect a cut from something that was unfair towards developers to begin with.
Most indie developers rely on government grants, kickstarter, and other means to stay above water. A 30% cut and another cut from taxes, leaves very little for development.
If AAA games are too expensive, that is a valid argument you can make. But there’s no reason why consumers need to get a cut from developers.
Unfair towards developers? So is 12% fair? These developers get a platform… A great platform to sell their game with millions of daily users. How is it unfair to pay the cut? It’s standard practice.
Most indie developers develop garbage games. 30% cut comes AFTER the development not before so I am unsure how the 30% affect the development of the game you already developed.
If the developers are using the logic of “oh well the cut on this other platform is smaller so it’s better for us” then they better pass of some of that saving to the consumer because most NORMAL people don’t give a flying f*ck about how much money the developer makes.
1) A 30% cut is no longer the “industry standard“. Microsoft cut their fees to 12%. And Epic Game store only charges a 12% fee.
2) The platforms that are still charging 30%, like Steam, Sony and Apple, are complained about.
Your info is out of date. Steam no longer takes a 30% cut, it goes down to 25 and 20% the better a game sells.
Also developers are free to ditch Steam if they feel like it, PC has a free market and there isn’t a monopoly.
Apple and Sony products on the other hand… oh boy.
Steam takes a 30% cut for every game that has revenue below $10 million. Which is pretty much every indie game or smaller studio. This is why indie developers are so upset with Steam and why so many release on Epic Game Store and GamePass which only takes a 12% cut. It is also why so many indie developoers are struggling financially. Many indie developers survive by government grants (check credits on indie games). On Steam these developers incur a 30% cut, plus another cut from taxes, they basically lose 50% of their profits on every sale.
Steam takes a 25% cut for games with revenue over $10 million.
Steam takes a 20% cut if you make over $50 million on a game. Which is mostly AAA game developers like Ubisoft, Activision, EA, Nintendo, etc. These developers often choose not to release on Steam to begin with.
Yup, that’s correct. I don’t mean to pick sides though, I definitely think Valve could do more for small time devs.
But I also feel that closed systems like Playstation and Apple are treating the little guy even worse.
Right, Apple is changing to a service driven company. Each year the share Apple makes from the App store, Apple Music and other services increases, and their share from hardware sales decreases.
And Apple uses that duopoly it has with Android, to try to undercut competitors like Spotify and Netflix. Spotify that has to pay a substantial cut to Apple, while at the same time has to compete with Apple Music.
“New internal emails and presentation documents revealed as part of the Epic vs. Apple show how Apple attempted to convince Netflix to continue using the App Store In-App Payments system. As Netflix was plotting its roadmap, Apple made a multitude of last-ditch efforts to win the company
over.”
Idiot.
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This image does not do it justice! it’s far worse
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This genuinely cracked me up! 😀
Looks awesome. I had way more fun in The Crew 2 than in Forza.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure!
Especially, that The Crew 2 has terrible driving and vehicle psychics for every type of vehicle in the game.
2023 and they’re still making cross-gen games. No wonder it looks dated. Not like it matters too much as it’s an ubishite game so it’s bound to be mediocre all around. I wouldn’t touch this with a 10ft pole even if it were DRM-free.
30 million PS5s in the wild but probably a big chunk of those are being hoarded by scalpers.
PS5 software sales are pathetic. Even Soyny recognise this since they released the newest entry in probably their largest current franchise, God of War: My Wife’s Son, as a cross-gen title.
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They can shove it up their f*king a*s, then.
I fell for their “exclusive” bullshit with a bunch of games, only for them to suddenly release them on Steam, and now I have some games on steam and some on their store, GAMES IN THE SAME SERIES. F*KING ANNOYING.
These MFs are going bankrupt and still they don’t release on Steam =))
Is it also always online garbage?
Forza Horizon with aids.
Stupid Soft = Stupid Content, Lousy Optimization, Empty Games.
Stupid Soft = N°1 World Championship in “Downgraded Games”
StupidSoft = Slap it !…………… it’s French !!!!
I wish Microsoft had not delisted Forza Horizon 3 on PC.