Ubisoft Biggest Titles Disappear from Steam Globally

Ubisoft's biggest three titles; Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed Unity and The Crew have all disappeared from Steam on a global scale. What was thought to originally be a UK issue has now spread throughout the digital market of Steam, with no sight of the game anywhere.

[Robochobo]

Rest in Pepperoni Ubisoft's digital sales.

[lelo2play]

Do you guys know that every game sold on Steam, Valve receives 30%.
Ubisoft realizes that well known games like Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed Unity and The Crew don't necessarily need Steam to sell. They prefer selling directly on Uplay, that way keeping those extra 30%.
EA did the same thing with Origin.

... and if those new games from Ubisoft (and EA) come with the same protection that FIFA 15 and Lords of the Fallen have, pirate bay is not going to be much help.

EDIT: Like I was saying...
http://n4g.com/news/1616833...

[turdburgler1080]

Wow! Thirty percent. That's a hefty chunk of change to fork over for digital distribution through steam. When you factor in advertising costs and everything else that's alot.

@madmonkey01

Pirate bay is always busy.

[morganfell]

30% does seem like a chunk but you have to realize all of the structure is handled for you. All of the servers, purchasing structure, everything. Other than patches and add-ons, which go onto Steam, everything is managed for you. And it is a solid network.

I look at the last PC game I bought by Ubisoft, AC3, and it ran on Ubi's ridiculoius Uplay network. Their entire structure is just horrendous. An atrocious network.

[Feralkitsune]

Maybe I wouldn't mind if Uplay was as reliable as Steam or even Origin.

[BattleAxe]

Origin has the most to gain from this move, since they have a partnership with Ubisoft. People seem to be more hesitant to buy directly from UPlay as opposed to Origin, and many people already have an established library of games on Origin.

I'm surprised that EA doesn't have a ticker on their main page like Steam, showing Far Cry 4, Assassins Creed Unity and The Crew along with Dragonage, BF4 and Titanfall. Instead, you have to search to find all of Ubisoft's new games.

[dreamoner]

So Valve receives 30%, I hear sony&microsoft receive 45% on their consoles.

[Bladesfist]

30% is nothing when you look at the consumer base it opens up for you. I would expect it to be much more expensive to try and reach those numbers without it.

[TonyPT]

It's funny, just found this piece of news and decided to open my dusty ubisoft client. And as of now, it already updated itself 10+ times and still going for it.

Yeah, I agree with what most people are saying here that their client software is not the best at all.

I was actually interested in unity for co op with my brother and wife, but I'm just not sure anymore. I'm not very patient nowadays with buggy software, as they already had enough time to improve their service.

I'm a programmer as well, so it's easy for me to say that they are just being lazy (or incompetent) when dealing with improving uplay.

Edit: Damm it, still trying to update itself. Had to close it down and probably will need to reinstall this bloody thing.

[madmonkey01]

pirate bay will be busy

[TheWackyMan]

Good.

[Orbilator]

Not with the new games it wont.

[Antifan]

Oh well, that's less sales for you, ubi...you morons.

[Pandamobile]

Wait, I thought Ubisoft loved money.

[Psychotica]

There is supposed to be a big demo of the game tomorrow on Twitch @noon PST. People should go on there to voice their displeasure..

[Orbilator]

Are you gabe in disguise looool? Give us a steam client that dont bloat up my pc with crap i dont want, you get the big picture? Loool

[Tempest317]

can you explain this bloat? I have used steam since 2004 and I don't recall ever thinking it to be bloated

[TheWackyMan]

the steam client has bloat? what are you talking about, goy? Do you have a toaster for a computer?

[Th3o]

It might have been a mistake since it was pulled from UK they might have pulled it globally.

I still have my pre-order in my steam games.

[Snookies12]

I can't seriously believe that they'd back away from Steam... That's such a huge portion of their digital sales. It would be one of the dumbest moves I've seen in gaming, in quite some time. Thinking this must be a glitch of some kind, or an error.

If it is true... Well, no more sales from me Ubi. Have fun screwing yourselves.

[lelo2play]

Steam automatically takes 30% of game sales. That's a lot.

EA left Steam and survived, now it's Ubisoft turn.

[Ricegum]

PC fanboys can't take a little bit of bad news.

[Feralkitsune]

Difference is that Origin actually fucking works. Uplay never fucking works correctly.

[Orbilator]

Steam is rapidly turning in to bloat ware designed to line there own pockets from someone elses hard work,
It nice to see some developers take a stand.

[Ogygian]

I think Valve are probably as responsible for this as Ubisoft.

[frelyler]

Do you even know what bloatware is? The only space I see being used by steam is the library of 70+ games I own. Also, Steam uses hardly any resources at all. Bring up your task manager and you'll see. I think you have no idea what steam is nor used it. Finally, no one is forcing anyone to use Steam.

[Tempest317]

Once again, I ask...where is this magical bloat? I would tend to agree with Frelyler, you must not know what bloatware actually means...Or youre just trolling

[tanukisuit]

So they pulled an EA? Oh boy... EA Origins is barely tolerable as it is. It's getting better, but still needs major improvements.

UPlay? Frig, the only time I've used it was to register my "free" copy of Splinter Cell Conviction (which I got free with my GTX 760).

[LeCreuset]

Ubi continues its downward spiral.

[Orbilator]

And steam continues to climb up its own ass, still believing in its own greatness

[darx]

We get it! You don't like Steam.

[Tempest317]

You had the benefit of the doubt when I posted the last comment...now its obbious youre trolling, just slamming Steam for whatever reason...thats fine that you dont like it, but you should try not to spout off totally false bullshit just because ypu dont like it

[Ogygian]

So the two largest publishers are not on steam...ffs guys (Valve, Ubi and EA): sort this out.

[Father__Merrin]

30%??? that's ludicrous lol

this Uplay is it drm free download or is it a client? I'm not a fan of having too many gaming clients on your pc.

steam and origin are workable, matey chuck in desura for indies anything after that is too crowded