Ubisoft shuts down any possibility of Rainbow Six Siege becoming playable on Steam Deck

As long as people more competent get control of the longer lived franchises.

>How many of your friends you game with are non-linux users?

Like all of them?

2/2 of the people I play with regularly are non-Linux. I've been trying to get them to switch. They're technologically literate, for the most part, so they'd do fine over here. One issue is one does audio stuff (he makes music sometimes) and that's got some issues transferring, and that's the one more likely to switch over. The other one could without an issue but just doesn't want to go through setting up a new system.

As I wrote it doesn't mean they don't play it, but it means they play it less.

As I wrote they play it less. I never claimed they don't play it. and I clearly indicated that the numbers aren't stats, I made an example and a hypothetical based on it.

How many of your friends you game with are non-linux users? That *sometimes* happens, but rarely. Usually they'll still play these titles when I'm not around. In fact the most common thing I've seen is they've already bought/downloaded the game and they'll ask if I'm willing to join, to which I'll say it doesn't run. Everyone I've met tries to accomodate for that particular play session, but they don't extend that as far as their purchasing habits.

That's just not how people work at all lmao. If 1 doesn't have it then they just don't all play it for that one session. Those other 3 may play it on their own. What are these ass pull stats? The hypothetical case has almost no chance of being realized.

Especially with how competitive games work, they're largely played solo.

Well... good news is you can get a slew of Rayman on GOG, which is drm free... so run it anywhere you like. :)

https://www.gog.com/en/game/rayman_bundle

Already got them all! 1800 is my favourite and I'm itching to play 117 but I can wait.

Well a chunk of them are drm free on GOG... https://www.gog.com/en/game/anno_bundle

Rayman :(

ughh imagine a Riders Republic without Ubisoft and with mod support?

Same with Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint...

Regrettably Anno is Ubisoft. Love that game so much.

There isn't a single one of my favorite games made by ubi... and ubisoft is half the reason for that.

They already do that by requiring you use an Ubisoft account, even when you buy it on Steam. You shouldn’t be buying from them anyway just because of that. Doesn’t surprise me they made another anti-consumer decision.

Yuuup. Ubisoft has some great titles, but their interference makes them not worthwhile.

No, I'm not installing your crappy bloated launcher. Get bent.

Ubisoft: *we make your favorite video games less appealing*

Ubisoft should shut down their entire company, nothing of value would be lost.

The market they are missing out on is growing. If 4 friends decide to play a game, and 1 has Linux, those 4 will not play a Ubisoft game.

So even if Linux is only about 3%, it could hypothetically mean 12% lower playtime on their games, and that will reflect in lower future sales. Where people will prefer to buy games they play more.

Their games are fucking shite anyway, I wouldn't even want to play them.

Siege has been sort of dead for awhile (its certainly not growing players), so nothing of value was lost.

Ironically, their anticheat also isn't worth much.

Ok, probably wasn't going to play it anyway

Ubisoft is a _weird_ one. I like their open world games (not that hard, so long as I like the premise for a specific one, it’s more of the same) and they seem to want their games running everywhere! Except sometimes. Here’s the latest example, but conversely a few months ago Motorfest stopped being announced anti cheat pita and just worked. Always have to check protondb before getting one… oh! And then there’s Starlink, which works on Linux but, lol, hates virtualization tech so on _Windows_ it’s either that not running, or Windows complaining about lowered security. Lovely.