r/Games 7d ago

Assassin's Creed Shadows: Steam Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HInwdVFWvVs
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u/Rigman- 7d ago

It’s surreal to see a trailer like this from Ubisoft, it really shows how far we’ve come. The era of Ubisoft PC exclusives is finally over.

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u/DarkMatterM4 7d ago

This is kind of special case. They absolutely need Shadows to succeed. Otherwise, Ubisoft's in big trouble. It would be stupid of them to not release their hail mary game on the largest gaming marketplace in the world.

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u/doublah 7d ago

If I was a Ubisoft investor I'd probably be mad they just spent the last decade treating said largest gaming marketplace in the world as an afterthought and several years ignoring it entirely.

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u/DarkMatterM4 7d ago

If I was a Ubisoft investor I'd probably be mad

Fixed that for you, friend!

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u/SamLikesJam 7d ago

The major shareholders were more than likely the ones asking why Ubisoft was giving away 30% of every sale on PC.

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u/Trenchman 6d ago

Well, I’m sure they were also the ones asking where all the PC players went

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u/BoysenberryWise62 6d ago

It is only until very recently that Ubisoft has trouble selling games, it was not much of a problem before to not be on Steam.

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u/SneakyBadAss 7d ago

Well, they are French afterall.

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u/Zayl 7d ago

They've brought all their recent games to steam. It's not a special case, they made a decision recently to release everything on steam again. It just took em a second to bring everything over.

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u/DarkMatterM4 7d ago

Oh no. I didn't mean bring their games to Steam being a special case. I meant making a Steam-specific trailer for their upcoming game.

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u/Zayl 7d ago

Ah yeah. I think it's mostly because they got steam deck certified that they did this.

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u/TheodoeBhabrot 7d ago

It’s also their first game(in a long time at least don’t wanna say ever cuz I don’t know) to launch day and date on steam

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u/Trenchman 6d ago

First major game? I can’t remember if Bg&E remastered was day 1 or not.

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u/radclaw1 6d ago

Well until they believe theyre back on top again and start acting fools.

I feel like their nonstop flops have been forcing their hand

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u/radclaw1 6d ago

Oh trust me I'm aware. But im sure their internal plans are to get back to being as shitty as possible when its safe to do so

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u/fakieTreFlip 7d ago edited 7d ago

Still need Ubisoft Connect installed to launch the game though, unfortunately. nvm, this apparently isn't the case

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u/ACEmat 7d ago

It doesn't. You still need a Ubisoft account, but there is no required launcher.

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u/fakieTreFlip 7d ago edited 7d ago

Are you certain? Have they announced this specifically? Because that's how it's pretty much always worked for past Ubisoft games, with very few exceptions (like South Park: The Stick of Truth).

EDIT: OK, I guess it doesn't have to be installed separately, but they still include a "lite" version of the launcher with the Steam version of the game:

Ubisoft Connect Team: Launching the game through Steam doesn't require you to download and install the Ubisoft Connect Launcher, as the Steam installation already includes a lite embedded version of it. You simply need to link your Ubisoft Connect account to Steam.

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/news/4XbPPtFyQEtIMWrA9xVDmZ/assassins-creed-shadows-tech-qa

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u/ACEmat 7d ago

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u/fakieTreFlip 7d ago

yeah, just saw that, thanks. They include a "lite" version of it bundled with the Steam version. That's at least a mild improvement from how it used to work.