Blooddimond
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Looks like ubi games are back in NA as well. http://store.steampowered.com/app/289650/
What is ubi doing over there?
What is ubi doing over there?
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Upcoming Ubisoft titles seemingly removed from Steam worldwide [edit: they're back]
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MrTroubleMaker
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I hope it was " oh crap, what happened to the presales, its like 0 now and people asking for a refund"
alexandros
Banned
OP, send a message to a mod to update the title.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
Someone has been cock-blocking multiplatform releases from being sold on Steam in the UK for years now.
I really wish someone would investigate it properly.
alexandros
Banned
so was it really hard for Ubi to have at least a twitter post to clear this yesterday (like saying in a tweet it's technical issues and games will be back on steam or just for UK for reasons..ect).
or does this company just love bad publicity?
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
Or maybe Ubisoft was like
Yeah, they left the guy in charge of the UK store in charge of WW and by force of habit he removed its availability.
Because they're still missing from the UK store.
d00d3n
Member
Parity has to be enforced in all areas of the company. A well formulated PR response would break the tradition of always doing the wrong thing PR wise - and thus break PR parity.
Felix Lighter
Member
It's hard to imagine that after this long without an acknowledgement from Ubisoft, there wasn't something going on behind the scenes.
Just trying the GAF posted steam links while I am in the UK.
You can check SteamDB - just UK being screwed, Philippines has been corrected now though, and they can purchase https://steamdb.info/app/298110/
alexandros
Banned
What the hell is the UK retailers' problem with Steam anyway? Aren't these the same retailers that basically shunned retail PC games from their stores a few years ago? Did they only just realize that people still game on PC and buy games for it? It's shameful.
And here we are, 1000 posts later.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/retail-threatens-steam-ban/06050
is the best we got to go on
EDIT:
And they're still not on my store.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Also that they were manually putting the pages back up and then taking them back down during the day.
They were aware, clearly.
alexandros
Banned
Good call!
Denton
Member
Ubi has FarCry which is just as much a PC franchise as Battlefield, and its PC versions have been stellar so far.
And I know plenty people complain about AC but I never had any issues with their PC versions, aside from busted vsync in AC4 (but easily fixable).
KimonoNoNo
Member
What so special about the UK market that we have these AAA multiplatform games getting blocked on Steam?
alexandros
Banned
I can't believe these people have the nerve to ban Steam after they practically banned PC games from their stores for years. It's disgusting.
Enemy of my enemy, etc.
Ubisoft and EA have love for each other because on Uplay you can buy EA games and on Origin you can buy Ubisoft games!
So now all of a sudden there back on steam? Your not doing anything good here ubisoft.
You know I will. They don't deserve a single penny.
alexandros
Banned
The only thing I can imagine is that the UK branches of major publishers have shared sales data with retailers and that data shows significant sales through Steam.
I honestly have no idea. They've done fuck all for the PC market and they only ever had an extremely small selection of games for sale so they didn't exactly promote the platform.
In regards to PC the only good thing they ever did was sell Steam credit, which meant I was able to trade in all my old games/consoles and get as much Steam credit as I wanted.
Hamster Plugin
Member
Back on in Finland, and still 60.
Fuck off with that pricing, it's 40-45 on various retailers. What the hell is up with EU digital game pricing?
Fuck off with that pricing, it's 40-45 on various retailers. What the hell is up with EU digital game pricing?
I could also see an angle with Microsoft Windows not wanting gaming to move over to Steam Linux, big challenge to the desktop environment with gaming.
In the past year I started using Linux, Xubuntu, Elementary OS and trying steam out on them and the games that are available all work well but still not as fast as Windows....its a start and possibly the competitors ganging up and making sure it doesn't go and further.
Come now there's about 50 copies of WoW and lots of supermarket shovelware in my local GAME.
More seriously though can you remember when they actually did used to care way back in the Electronics Boutique days where you could get some great bargains on the 3 for £10 and 5 for £15 stands chock full of classic and newish PC titles? All started to change in the PS2 days with a shift to consoles as their main focus and the space for PC games went for 80% of the store to 10% to now 2 shelves round the back next to the second hand UMD's.
Zeyphersan
Banned
So it looks like I was right to not freak out about the games disappearing
Man does that feel good. You guys should try it sometime
Man does that feel good. You guys should try it sometime
Cizeta-Moroder
Banned
And the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
Stone Ocean
Member
But what would be the fun in that
D
Deleted member 17706
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Sometimes I hate GMG. I like having my games on Steam, of course, but their discounts make for a hard decision when it comes to non-Steamworks stuff. I can get Unity for $47.99 and no sales tax if I pre-order from them, whereas buying straight from the Steam store will cost me $65.69 after tax.
Would have to pay almost $18 more just to have it in my Steam library...
Almost makes me want to just hold off for a few months and pick it up when it goes on sale.
Would have to pay almost $18 more just to have it in my Steam library...
Almost makes me want to just hold off for a few months and pick it up when it goes on sale.
OmegaDL50
Member
Nah, I don't think the timing was odd at all.
Ubisoft knows that Steam's upcoming Black Friday Sale and Winter Sale is happening soon, so they just removed their newer games to have to not deal with showing off their games on the service while 90% of the rest of the store is marked down because of the discounts.
Out of sight, out of mind basically. If the games suddenly reappear after the sale is over at regular price, well I'll know my theory is true.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
Given the UK specific topic got locked and discussion was moved to this one, can us marginalised UK PC gamers get "Except UK" or similar in the topic so it isn't obviously good news for everyone time.
Maybe you could count it as new news, and new thread for new news?
I dunno.
"Upcoming Ubi games back on Steam (except UK because of reasons x, y and z)"
KimonoNoNo
Member
As long as you spell it zed.
exmachina64
Banned
Maybe you're right.
Hell, I wasn't even planning on playing Unity. I might buy it on Steam now.
Face it Tiger..
Banned
crisis averted
*wipes brow*
*wipes brow*
I can still pre-purchase Unity.
Zeyphersan
Banned
It was a mistake after all? I'm completely shocked. 
As can everybody else. You replied to my post several hours later, during which time the games reappeared.
As can everybody else. You replied to my post several hours later, during which time the games reappeared.
Never buy a AAA title directly from Steam if you live in Europe. All the big titles seem to be getting a price hike to 59.99 Euros, which is horrible for us.
Yeah, though Ubi are worse for it, before it got removed for the UK they were charging £50 for the standard edition. What a total rip off. You can get PS4/Xbone versions for cheaper than that...
Uhhh it doesn't seem like they're back in the UK? I can't find either Far Cry 4 or Assassins Creed Unity on the Steam store here?
yeah its back for the whole world except UK
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