While Ubisoft’s previous titles were not exclusive on UPLAY and found their way on Valve’s store, it appears that – starting with The Division 2 – a select number of its upcoming titles will come out exclusively on Epic’s new digital store and Ubisoft’s own store.
Ubisoft announced today the Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 will be available on both Epic’s store and UPLAY, and will not be coming out on Steam. Ubisoft claimed that it has signed a new deal with Epic Games, something that could prevent the French company from releasing its title simultaneously on both Steam and Epic’s store.
We don’t know whether this is timed-exclusive deal, similarly to what we’ve seen with other games lately, and whether The Division 2 will find its way on Steam post-launch.
Chris Early, vice president of partnerships at Ubisoft, said:
“We entrust Epic to deliver a smooth journey for our fans, from pre-ordering the game and enjoying our Beta to the launch… Epic continues to disrupt the video game industry, and their third party digital distribution model is the latest example, and something Ubisoft wants to support.”
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I’m okay with this. Always hated having to use both Steam and Uplay to start a game, so I preferred buying ubisoft games through uplay.
Yeah, that’s been bugging me for some time, why buy it on steam just to waste Ram on another client.
Just download more RAM then. /s
But am already busy downloading more resolution.
Solution is to download RAM via wi-fi and the resolution via ethernet cable. Win!
I prefer launching by Steam, my friends know what game I am playing and my library is all centralized….
Plus you can get sales on Uplay version.
Goodluck with that division is boring as hell
With a 1-3 other people it’s pretty darn entertaining.
Anything is fun with friends
even jacking each other off?
yes
yes
You should know
LOL WTF
Epic Store is DRM free. But Ubicrap will use Denuvo+VMProtect for Division 2. ??
Alwas-online Ubisoft games don’t have Denuvo.
Division 1, For Honor, Wildlands, The Crew 2 have it.
Division 1, Crew 2 don’t. Wildlands has offline mode. For Honor is the only one weird and I keep forgetting about it.
Epic Store has DRM just like Steam
It’s optional for developers to implement it or not
Epic Store is more similar to GOG.
How?
Steam needs cracked steam_api64.dll or similar stuff. Epic Store doesn’t need anything just like GOG.
That is only true so far,nowhere has epic advertised to be more like GoG than Steam…You have only seen indies so far,just wait and see how much crap Ubi tacks on to this pos…
Its obvious as to why they chose Epic 12%>30% Steam is in big trouble coz i see almost all the AAA games going to Epic including Red Dead Redemption. Support Epic guys coz more money goes to developers which means more games are made.
lol GTFO NO STEAM NO F _ING BUY https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5ca061ba7599c73eeaa600d2f6bb3a33ee331ed3c8942741cb8de16a69bb635a.png
As if those pozzed leftist publishers don’t have enough money already.
More games like this? No thanks.
“which means more games are made.”
If they make these kind of games, maybe failing and not making any is for the best.
A lot sales are lost because hardly anyone knows about that Epic store. Steam front page means thousands and thousands of sales
200 million people knows about the Epic store you dummy. Don’t be a biased idiot without facts to back it up. Fortnite player based just topped 200 million. Not liking the idea of an Epic store is one thing, but to deny the facts is just plain stu[id. You have no ground to stand on you Steamwho*e.
They are there for Fortnite. Just saying
Yes a store that has DRM free games on it so far, is anti-consumer. You truly are an idiot you know that.
dead bodies don’t have physics or collision in ubisoft games, npcs that are alive don’t feel good to shoot at either, they don’t react to being shot and a small blood effect which looks not connected to character models is all you get. i’m glad i don’t get to play their garbage
Who cares. in a group of friends, it doesn’t matter what launcher you use, as long as the game works and it’s a fun coop.
They even bought off Ubisoft. You could remotely understand desperate small publishers but Ubisoft?
What’s next?
Man this sucks big time. I’m not buying any game on Epic Store or Bethesda store.
You are going to miss out on some big games of 2019.
Maybe…or maybe they don’t reach sales figures and they decide to release on Steam a few months later? Stranger things have happened…
Clearly Ubisoft does not want The Division 2 to be review bombed
Exactly!
Good for a game that nobody wants.
This will become more common until Valve decreases their ridiculous cut
But what about Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo? How come they don’t get sh*t for their 30% fee? Why is it that Steam always gets singled out in this special olympics?
Because some people think that a 70/30 split in favor of developers is somehow self evidently unfair and that developers are intrinsically entitled to more of our money. Never mind that platforms like Steam provide all kinds of services to developers and consumers alike.
Interestingly enough Ubi’s own website can’t seem to tell you what Uplay offers end users just like the Epic game store.
Well said. To introduce some facts to the debate, here’s a list of the percentage of game sales revenue taken by online stores,
Humble Bundle: 5%
Discord Store: 10%
Epic Store: 12% (5% levy on UE4 games sold on other stores waived)
Steam: 20% for >$50m, 25% for >$10m and 30% for <$10m
GOG: 30% (50% (!) for old games if policy from 2011 is unchanged)
(Couldn't find details for Uplay, EA Origin and Windows 10 Store)
So Steam continues to attract snarky comments from internet edgelords while the supposedly 'saintly' CD Projekt have, in GOG, the most profiteering digital store leaving devs with the smallest percentage of sales revenue!
LOL I can’t wait to see the sales number!
no steam, no buy, easy.
Um… did Steam just enforce some sort of standards for once or something? It looks like one less pile of utter s**t on Steam.
If only.
LMAO. Will buy on Uplay cause I like the game but I will never touch epic games store. Moneyhatting is not competition. It’s not for the 12 percent Ubisoft are going for. It’s for the money epic gave them. Nif it were for the 12 percent why not go Uplay exclusive? AND WHY SELL IT ON GMG? which takes 30 percent just like steam.
Epic moneyhatting them and Ubisoft accepting is even more disgusting
Jesus Christ, this is nothing but pure greed, especially with the proper lack of a full refund system (as in no questions and no 2 refunds per account, which Epic currently runs with) .
Ubisoft still require you to use Uplay, and they know if they went Uplay exclusive, that their game would die on that hill instantly.
I enjoyed The Division PVE. Was looking forward to the 2nd, but no Steam, no sale.
No big loss. lol
I’m ok with this, Steam needs less trash
Because the hundreds of indie trash games on Steam every week is enough right?
Prett much, the difference between those and Ubisoft games is that the one might have good core gameplay and no microtransactions and DLC.
That as my thought after reading the article too.
Sadly I will have to skip this. This is getting absolutely ridiculous. I will never ever buy any third party PC game from anywhere but Steam. I will still play them if you know what I mean
I will gladly skip any ubishit grindfest masquerading as a game. Thanks ubi for taking that step for me!
will buy far cry dawn from steam. Since division is mmo i dont care but i play all action games and most fighters so i wiill buy far cry from steam
How is this even possible when Ubisoft will have that game riddled with DRM/Denuvo/VM Protect? And the Epic Store doesn’t have DRM. Not that I would buy Ubisofts filth anyways but one is left to wonder?
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 will skip Steam, will be released on Epic’s Digital Store and UPLAY lol wow https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/90175316cba86209e4b8121e2e6d22a2596b416064b6be767632a8378d3b9a49.jpg
This is online-only game.
But other Epic Store exclusives aren’t and won’t be.
are you dense? this is an online only game, has nothing to do with launcher, the game itself is mmo you thick midget.
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that moment when rytards and 50 iq kids back each other up
great insult i’m soo offended
you told me yourself that you have a mental disability, what kind of insult would the word “rytard” be if you’re saying it to an actual rytard.
“you told me yourself that you have a mental disability” lol dont confuse what your parents say to you with mine.
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you said you are bipolar and might say you don’t have a mental disability later. you said it was why you can’t communicate that well and keep posting pics and gifs.
i post pictured becuase you are waste of my time
but why did you tell me you order food by pointing at food pictures because you don’t have the mental capacity earlier? you also told me that you are bipolar as well so i think you’re just in denial now.
lol dude get a life
i’m brown and proud and you white kids are poor. my life is so superior to white lives.
browns>>>>>whites
the only browns that are considered not competent and inferior to whites are greeks and italians. they’re too mad trying to present themselves to the world as whites.
Learn to comprehend English first. It will make you a better troll.
what do you mean?do you need to read the comments again?
I know The Division 2 is online only but other offline games that are only available on the Epic Games Store can and will be pirated.
so in other words, you couldn’t comprehend my comment yourself. ok let’s pretend no one noticed, act it off.
I will not let you off so easily. Accept you are poor at comprehending English. Then you are free to go and troll someone else.
the guy was saying he intends to pirate division2, someone commented and told him you can’t because it’s an online game, you came in topic and said that other epic store games aren’t and won’t be (meaning that either A- you thought this game was online only as an exception on epic store and other games on epic store won’t be online only except this one which is unlikely what you meant unless you have 40 iq or B-you knew this game was online but you brought up epic store games that are playable offline to the argument because you’re stupid since the original poster thought he could pirate an online video game which is why it resulted in me and someone else correcting him)
as you can see in both scenarios you’re stupid af and can’t comprehend english. well done. now act more, why don’t ya?neeg
My comment was very clear. If anyone who did not understand it its because either (A) That person has a low IQ or (B) That person is poor at comprehending English or (C) Both
“If anyone who did not understand it ”
you keep saying that, your comment was a stupid and irrelevant comment you thick sheep. it’s like me going to a market analyze forum and talk about yoshi’s seks life. are you even aware that we were talking about whether you can or can’t pirate online games?you are unbelievably dense. no one was talking about offline games you dull kunt.
Euuuum you do know that even online games can be hacked right?
People were playing Rainbow Six Siege before it was even officially released.
cracked? you imbecile of a child.
You sad little troll. I am not wasting time on you. Blocked ^^
Also you cannot spell for sh*t.
getting blocked by a 40 iq 14 years old, sad. i can’t spell?do you know what spelling means? i guess if you didn’t have 40 iq you’d know the difference between grammar, spelling and censoring
the guy was saying he intends to pirate division2, someone commented and told him you can’t because it’s an online game, you came in topic and said that other epic store games aren’t and won’t be (meaning that either A- you thought this game was online only as an exception on epic store and other games on epic store won’t be online only except this one which is unlikely what you meant unless you have 40 iq or B-you knew this game was online but you brought up epic store games that are playable offline to the argument because you’re stupid since the original poster thought he could pirate an online video game which is why it resulted in me and someone else correcting him)
as you can see in both scenarios you’re stupid af and can’t comprehend english. well done. now act more, why don’t ya?
well i wasnt going to buy the game in the first place but just to give them the middle finger
but you can’t, they’re giving YOU pirates the middle finger.
how ? i’m gaining some thing and they arent so who is the loser ?
what are you gaining?
Tencent has a stake in both Epic Games and Ubisoft. Do I need to say more. Expect more bad news in the future as Tencent is making some power plays behind the scenes.
who is Tencent?
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LMAO !! This Epic Fail store is even WORSE than MS store.
Let’s wait and see for these ones. Microsoft f***ed people once with GFW store.
Stop being delusional. MS Store is far worse.
If you can dowload games via the Epic Store then it’s already better than the Windows Store.
Hey Dummy, Epic Store is DRM Free. Just goes to show how much you actually know about the store. But……… With that said, i don’t know how the hell UbiSoft is going to be on the epic store when Ubisoft crap games are loaded with DRM Denuvo and VMprotect. I can guarantee that you still have to link Uplay to it. Ubisoft is just using epic stores popularity because of fornite to sell more copies. But you still are a dummy though.
Ubisoft knows this game will likely flop so they took the money from fools at Epic. Cause Ubi still has FC New Dawn on Steam and will have next AC. They won’t dare to pull.
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I thought this t*rd was released last year lol. EpicStore is great, there are no reviews and big publishers hate those damn user reviews specially when tons of anti-consumer practices are in play.
No Steam, no sale.
Well I wasn’t sold on the first one.
I don’t think this one will either.