- thanks_shakey_snake ( @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ) 3•2 hours ago
Why is it always this one photo of Gabe? It’s like a meme format that journalists use unironically any time Steam comes up.
- bitwolf ( @bitwolf@lemmy.one ) 13•7 hours ago
That’s half the reason I don’t buy Ubisoft games. The other half is their launcher and DRM system.
- Lad ( @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ) 32•11 hours ago
Ubisoft could put their games for free right into my PC’s games folder and I still wouldn’t play them. They’re shit.
- b161 ( @b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 9•5 hours ago
Once you’ve played one Ubisoft game you’ve played them all. They did that thing where they took the best gameplay loops from each of their games and implemented them in their other games. So you always feel like you’ve done it before.
Their stories dance around the idea of saying something meaningful without actually taking a stance on anything. They feel like they’ve been approved by a board of directors and not the vision of an artist.
Absolutely soulless.
- Lad ( @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ) 3•5 hours ago
Spot on, I feel exactly the same about their games.
- BlackLaZoR ( @BlackLaZoR@fedia.io ) 59•13 hours ago
It’s funny because if Bethesda, EA, Ubisoft and Epic joined forces to make one platform they could put a dent in the steam monopoly.
But since they’re bunch of shittiy toxic managers with mentality of screwing everyone around for their own benefit, it’s never going to happen. They will always fail and crawl back to Gabe
- jerkface ( @jerkface@lemmy.ca ) 1•7 hours ago
BethesdaMicrosoft, EA, Ubisoft and Epic
- randomaside ( @randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 68•14 hours ago
Epic enshittified early. The whole system was terrible and they force it onto you. Here is valve actively making it easier to play your games while epic was like “It’s PC gaming, you get the good with the bad, suck it!”. You can’t simply buy your competition when your competition has more money than God.
Epic is failing because Tim Sweeney refused to innovate the platform.
- thisbenzingring ( @thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ) 51•13 hours ago
Fuck Tim Sweeney with a linux powered dildo.
He is the reason linux gaming is being held back.
- Zyratoxx ( @zyratoxx@lemm.ee ) 8•12 hours ago
Pornhub video title would be: "Getting all my weak spots penetrated at once by software using ‘unsafe custom kernels’ "
- dankm ( @dankm@lemmy.ca ) 4•11 hours ago
Even Microsoft doesn’t seem to be actively preventing their games from running on Linux. Fuck Sweeney.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) 79•14 hours ago
Now we can not buy their games on Steam, too! 😃
- Wanderer ( @Wanderer@r.nf ) 4•12 hours ago
I was hoping to see this comment!
- Zyratoxx ( @zyratoxx@lemm.ee ) 30•14 hours ago
- MudMan ( @MudMan@fedia.io ) 35•15 hours ago
Man, I don’t like the Steam monopoly on principle, but I have to admit I do struggle to pay attention to Epic exclusives. It’s simply the launcher I open the least after GOG and Steam. I’ve though “hey, wasn’t that Ubi Star Wars thing out” like two or three times and forgot about it between remembering that’s an Epic thing and deciding whether I wanted to buy it.
But hey, since we’re going multiplat again, I could use some newer Ubi games on GOG, too.
- Meldrik ( @meldrik@lemmy.wtf ) 30•14 hours ago
It’s a good monopoly, for now and hopefully for a long time.
The fact that Valve went out of their way to make gaming better in Linux, says a lot imho.
- KubeRoot ( @kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•9 hours ago
I like Valve, but I will point out what’s been said before - Valve has a stake in making Linux gaming better, since it enables the Steam Deck to exist and prosper. They could’ve chosen other options that don’t help the community, but they didn’t choose this entirely selflessly, since they reap the benefits from not just their own work, but also that of the open source developers.
- jerkface ( @jerkface@lemmy.ca ) 4•7 hours ago
The steam deck wasn’t even a sketch on paper when Valve started pushing Linux. It’s been their route forward into all forms of hardware. I’m sure it’s not long before we get a stand alone VR headset that runs Linux, which seems to me to be the real goal. The Deck was just a step along the way.
- Meldrik ( @meldrik@lemmy.wtf ) 6•8 hours ago
I don’t doubt that, but Steam was available for Linux, a long time before the Steam Deck and even SteamOS, as far as I remember.
- MudMan ( @MudMan@fedia.io ) 1•7 hours ago
It says (pretty explicitly, if you go back and read interviews), that Gabe Newell really doesn’t like Microsoft in general, that the feeling is mutual and that the fact that his multibillion dollar empire is stuck as a Windows application MS may try to muscle out at any point has motivated him to bring PC gaming out of Windows from very early on.
Granted, MS has been sucking at attempting exactly that for a long time, but that’s the ultimate motivation here. That’s not a particularly disputed fact.
- Wanderer ( @Wanderer@r.nf ) 4•12 hours ago
I hope you’ve read the news that two Volvo devs are speeding up the Wayland development. :)
- HeckGazer ( @HeckGazer@programming.dev ) 19•14 hours ago
It’s tough for any public companies to compete because they keep setting off their own footguns, ensuring they don’t succeed in the space. As long as Gabe is around I’m okay with this one (1) monopoly, as a treat.
- jerkface ( @jerkface@lemmy.ca ) 14•14 hours ago
for the love of god and gaming, please don’t buy ubisoft games
- YourPrivatHater ( @YourPrivatHater@ani.social ) 13•15 hours ago
Hope they also disable their shitshow of a launcher.
- luciole (he/him) ( @luciole@beehaw.org ) 9•14 hours ago
Despite the corporate crust one has to deal with when playing a Ubisoft game, I do enjoy how hard they go on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. The seemingly endless flow of bigoted tears that follows is priceless.
- RamblingPanda ( @RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com ) 3•15 hours ago
I’m not sure if it’s not already too late for me. I think they might have lost me for good. And I loved their games.
- IDew ( @IDew@lemm.ee ) 3•15 hours ago
Yay!