Ubisoft Bypasses Steam Completely with Ghost Recon Breakpoint

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/12/2019 08:13 AM | source: tweakers | 55 comment(s)

Ubisoft has announced Ghost Recon Breakpoint, however this round the game is entirely not going to be available on Steam. Two previous games still could be preordered through Steam, but even that is not the case anymore.

From the looks of it, Ubisoft has had enough of Steam and now moves solely towards their own Uplay and Epic game store. Companies have been complaining that Steam has become a too expensive platform with fees running towards 30 to40% of their sales. In March Epic Games announced that the collaboration with Ubisoft will continue and that several games would appear in the Epic Games store. On the Ubisoft Steam publisher page there is in any case nothing under the heading 'upcoming releases'.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is the successor of Wildlands and the character Nomad from that game makes his return. The action game will be released on October 4 for the PC, the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. The game is set on the fictional island group Auroa, where the research complex of the also fictional tech billionaire Jace Skell is located. The US Army discovers suspicious activity and sends Nomad to investigate. Nomad's mission soon turns into a survival fight when his helicopter is shot out of the sky and he is the only one left of the team. The facility appears to have been taken over by The Wolves, a group of Ghosts who act hostile.

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Undying
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#5668156 Posted on: 05/12/2019 09:43 AM

I hope you guys do not like ubisoft games becouse this only shows where their allegiance lies with their future games.

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#5668157 Posted on: 05/12/2019 09:44 AM

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#5668174 Posted on: 05/12/2019 11:10 AM

Hardly a surprise, epic is paying them to do so. They did release a smaller game called starlink on steam though.

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#5668183 Posted on: 05/12/2019 11:41 AM

Annual report.

Pg 15, says it all.

They are saying that net income from digital needs to increase - as a result they need to expand their digital transactions by spreading out their exposure and push for back catalog growth; and I quote:

In keeping with previous practices, and on the strength of the acceleration in digital transformation, back catalog growth and the excellent momentum of recent releases, the Company has decided to allocate more development time to Skulls & Bones, thereby offering an even more engaging experience for players. Skull & Bones™ is now expected during the 2019-2020 financial year,

•expected digital sales of around 65% of net bookings (compared with approximately 60% previously), PRI of around 30% of net bookings (compared to over 25% previously),

•an expected back catalog at roughly 50% of net bookings (compared to over 45% previously).

So, although they pay a percentage to steam etc, these platforms have a lot of users and they are trying to reassure stakeholders and share owners of their understanding of the problem, and to push for as much inclusion in the digital transaction 'space' as possible.

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#5668185 Posted on: 05/12/2019 11:44 AM

And this time Russian version does not have EMEA languages anymore, only Russian subtitles (with English audio)

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#5668192 Posted on: 05/12/2019 11:57 AM

I haven't bought a ubisoft made or published game in years so i'm good!

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#5668196 Posted on: 05/12/2019 12:09 PM

Ubisoft Bypasses Steam Completely with Ghost Recon Breakpoint

And just like that they bypass my wallet.

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#5668202 Posted on: 05/12/2019 12:16 PM

I haven't bought a ubisoft made or published game in years so i'm good!

Problem is, it's not just ubisoft who is releasing unfinished games, this seems to be the trend nowadays with everyone releasing BETAs at best and expecting the full 60 upfront.

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#5668205 Posted on: 05/12/2019 12:18 PM

Annual report.

Pg 15, says it all.

They are saying that net income from digital needs to increase - as a result they need to expand their digital transactions by spreading out their exposure and push for back catalog growth; and I quote:

•an expected back catalog at roughly 50% of net bookings

So, although they pay a percentage to steam etc, these platforms have a lot of users and they are trying to reassure stakeholders and share owners of their understanding of the problem, and to push for as much inclusion in the digital transaction 'space' as possible.

50% of their sales were of old games?

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#5668212 Posted on: 05/12/2019 12:42 PM

At first glance I thought that Ubisoft bypasses Denuvo completely :rolleyes:

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#5668214 Posted on: 05/12/2019 12:49 PM

Just when i was starting to like Ubisoft.

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#5668216 Posted on: 05/12/2019 12:56 PM

I mean, i just bought it of uplay anyway... why go through steam when you then have to go through uplay? just extra DRM at that point, and buying on uplay was often cheaper, since you can always get 20% off with their discount code... Don;t know if it's the same with epic still going through uplay, i assume so....

Don't fully get the steam loyalty thing, but maybe that's just me... i don't mind where i buy from, mind you not EPIC atm due to things that everyone speaks about... but with uplay games, since you get them on uplay anyway its never been an issue for me

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#5668229 Posted on: 05/12/2019 01:54 PM

That's good news and means less low-effort games by that greedy publisher. The last ones were average at best and very troublesome.

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#5668235 Posted on: 05/12/2019 02:27 PM

Why does it HAVE to be on steam and why are people such steam apologists? Having to go through steam and then the ubisoft launcher is silly. That's how the last game worked.

Screw steam.

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#5668243 Posted on: 05/12/2019 03:11 PM

For me the worst part is being forced to use Uplay on top of Steam or whatever, it´s the main reason why i pay very little attention to Ubisoft games.

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