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View Poll Results: The likelihood of my purchasing the products removed from Steam today.

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  • I'm an addict, I can't help myself.

    1 25.00%
  • My disdain for uplay is greater than my desire to play their titles.

    3 75.00%
  1. #1

    Attention Uplay/Ubisoft; REF FC4, AC removal from Steam.

    Here is some unsolicited first hand insight on the future of FarCry4 on uplay, by way of EAs origin.

    I have DL'd one game from origin since its inception. Note, I did not say purchased. It was battlefield3, and it was free. My disdain for ea/origin is so complete, to this day I've never even bothered to launch the game.

    Steam brought me back to PC gaming when uplay and origin couldn't.

    Thanks to Valve and their effective marketing and high quality, it was a new revenue stream that publishers had access to. Effective today, that access is severed. Ubisoft has skipped right over biting the hand that feeds them to cutting off their own hand.

    It's mind boggling that Ubi thinks they have the kind of leverage, credibility, and service to pull this off. The site that can barely, and frequently does not have the ability to handle existing traffic. I shudder to think what it will be like in a month.

    Of course, rather than experiencing it first hand I will only have to read about it on gamer sites over a warm mug of uFail, Ubi's own premium brew.

    I am like many gamers are becoming, I stick to my principles. I stopped buying EA products entirely, years ago. I skip right past titles with their stamp on them, not even a second thought. Ubi has been flirting with that status for some time now. In recognition of their success today, congratulations are in order.

    I see a new CEO on Ubi's horizon when this ill conceived idea face plants to the tune of million$ on the international market.
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    Valve has the market cornered with steam. Expect more big publishers to do this. It's just business.
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    They have it cornered for the right reasons though. They offer services gamers want and their sales are absolutely insane. Valve knows how to get customers in their corner because it doesn't FEEL like they're in it to make as much money as humanly possible. With EA and Ubisoft however everything about their services feels like I'm being robbed. Other publishers can try and keep on trying. Until they offer features that compete with Valve the average PC gamer won't use their terrible services.
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    In my opinion, consumer options are always king.

    If EA or Ubisoft desire consumers to choose their platform for gaming, it is their simple mission to provide a superior product and attract those customers with sugar.

    I challenge anyone to demonstrate when a company has increased sales by cutting off market segments or alienating potential customers.

    Due to EA's policies, I banished EA from my library and haven't purchased a product of theirs for years. Heck I don't even monitor EA's specials or giveaways anymore. The only game I have downloaded via Origin is battlefield3, and then only because it was free. Never the less, during the year since, I haven't bothered to even launch the game. I have Steam games to play! If it is confirmed that Ubisoft did this for the reasons currently being reported by media, then EA will be in good company with their new cell mate.

    None of us know the details of the contract between the two. As reported, Ubisoft has demanded Valve charge more for their product(s). Valve has pushed back. In my opinion, as a retail reseller having already paid Ubisoft for the licenses, this is Valve's option and it appears Valve is happy with a lower profit margin per product in favor of massive sales volume. Presumably, Ubisoft is not happy having to compete with Valve's strategy. I am not an anti-trust litigator, but I wonder if this constitutes conspiracy to price fix on Ubisoft's part. If that's the case, I have no doubt Valve knows what to do about it. On the other hand, we know from experience that uttering by media may be completely unsubstantiated.
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