[QUOTE=flashn00b;51574151]I'm pretty sure uPlay and Origin sell Steam keys for games not developed in-house.[/QUOTE]
So your source is your ass, right?
[QUOTE=flashn00b;51574151]I'm pretty sure uPlay and Origin sell Steam keys for games not developed in-house.[/QUOTE]
Origin sells uplay games. Thats it
[QUOTE=DEMONSKUL;51574175]Why would they?
If you buy shit on Uplay, it's giving you a uplay key. What are you talking about?[/QUOTE]
So i can play non-Ubisoft games on uPlay without any interaction on Steam at all? Good to know.
thats like saying amazon is a monopoly because they are the exclusive seller of kindles
[QUOTE=flashn00b;51574151][B]I'm pretty sure[/B] uPlay and Origin sell Steam keys for games not developed in-house.[/QUOTE]
this is the problem with the world folks
[editline]23rd December 2016[/editline]
and fyi, gog sells paradox games
[QUOTE=flashn00b;51574192]So i can play non-Ubisoft games on uPlay without any interaction on Steam at all? Good to know.[/QUOTE]
well yes? There are games on Uplay that doesn't need Steam to play?
Flash news!!
[QUOTE=flashn00b;51574192]So i can play non-Ubisoft games on uPlay without any interaction on Steam at all? Good to know.[/QUOTE]
hey did you know that the majority of EA games dont require steam????
Crazy right?!?
[QUOTE=DEMONSKUL;51574210]well yes? There are games on Uplay that doesn't need Steam to play?
Flash news!![/QUOTE]
I'd check for myself, but I can't access the Ubistore right now to pull a list of non-Ubisoft games. IIRC, the only games actively protected by uPlay are games developed by Ubisoft.
[QUOTE=AaronM202;51574182]So your source is your ass, right?[/QUOTE]
Meanwhile, on Origin...
[url]https://www.origin.com/can/en-us/store/saints-row/saints-row-the-third/standard-edition[/url]
[url]https://www.origin.com/can/en-us/store/dead-island/dead-island-riptide/standard-edition[/url]
...Oh. This is a first
[url]https://www.origin.com/can/en-us/store/witcher/the-witcher-wild-hunt/standard-edition[/url]
[quote="The Witcher 3's Origin Store Page"]This game uses DRM-Free Technology[/quote]
Okay, I'm an idiot. Looks like most of the non-EA games either use their own DRM (Origin is up-to-date on uPlay stuff), are DRM free or can be played as Origin games in the case of singleplayer titles. (have been looking exclusively at games NOT developed by DICE, BioWare or any of their EA brands)
[QUOTE=Exooodus;51573836]Didn't this happen last year around this time too? I think?[/QUOTE]
It always happens during Steam's big holidays sale.
Only difference is how badly they messed up. Like remember when people had their account credentials switched and was readable.
Giant mess that was.
[QUOTE=Zelle;51574299]It always happens during Steam's big holidays sale.
Only difference is how badly they messed up. Like remember when people had their account credentials switched and was readable.
Giant mess that was.[/QUOTE]
Wasnt that not as big a mess as thought because you couldnt actually do anything to the accounts?
Information leaking was super fucked but i remember people being worried about mass account hacking.
I recall a few accounts did got screwed over during that event.
[QUOTE=AaronM202;51574307]Wasnt that not as big a mess as thought because you couldnt actually do anything to the accounts?
Information leaking was super fucked but i remember people being worried about mass account hacking.[/QUOTE]
I think the most information you could get was the last 4 digits of the tele that you used
[QUOTE=Map in a box;51574316]I think the most information you could get was the last 4 digits of the tele that you used[/QUOTE]
Also account names and emails.
[QUOTE=Jelman;51573933]Well i cant launch my copy of Hitman i just bought because its FUCKING DENUVO and requires a steam connection to verify. (Then you can launch offline for like 2 weeks)[/QUOTE]
No, you can launch offline forever. Two weeks a was a bug that they patched ages ago.
[editline]23rd December 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=flashn00b;51574022]We can only hope that this will be a lesson on why monopolies are terrible.[/QUOTE]
Question, who's exactly supposed to learn a lesson, hmm? Us who can't buy these games elsewhere? The game developers that don't actually put their games anywhere other than steam and are completely unaffected by it anyway? Ubisoft, Origin, and CDP who each have their own proprietary clients?
If I felt the sudden need to play HL2 should I go out and buy a retail copy of the orange box just for the sake of diversity?
[QUOTE=Lolkork;51574418]Steam doesn't have a monopoly, but I think they are far too dominant. Far too many games are only available on steam.[/QUOTE]
the problem is removing their dominance. Why would any dev market on a different site / platform when they can access steams 20 million+ userbase
[QUOTE=Jelman;51574447]the problem is removing their dominance. Why would any dev market on a different site / platform when they can access steams 20 million+ userbase[/QUOTE]
They'd probably get some extra sales from releasing the game DRM-free on GOG, but Origin and Uplay aren't exactly places I go to get third-party games.
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[QUOTE=flashn00b;51574275]Okay, I'm an idiot. Looks like most of the non-EA games either use their own DRM (Origin is up-to-date on uPlay stuff), are DRM free or can be played as Origin games in the case of singleplayer titles. (have been looking exclusively at games NOT developed by DICE, BioWare or any of their EA brands)[/QUOTE]
And you managed to find two games from the same publisher as your examples. The least you could've done is grabbed Tomb Raider (the reboot, it's also on Origin and uses Steam) or something.
[QUOTE=gk99;51574508]They'd probably get some extra sales from releasing the game DRM-free on GOG, but Origin and Uplay aren't exactly places I go to get third-party games.[/QUOTE]
Well, DRM Free would also allow places like Humble Store to be its own Store, seeing that the original intention of the Humble Bundle was DRM-free games.
[QUOTE=nuke4fix;51574353]Also account names and emails.[/QUOTE]
getting an account name and email isn't really beneficial in taking over accounts
Steam still appears to be wonky.
[QUOTE=Sodisna;51582932]Steam still appears to be wonky.[/QUOTE]
It's Christmas bruv.
[QUOTE=flashn00b;51574022]We can only hope that this will be a lesson on why monopolies are terrible.[/QUOTE]
This guy has a bad taste in board games tbh
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