I don’t refuse to use other clients, if said clients are usable

Then do you think you are included in the valve fanboy group?

I've played stray on both a pop!os desktop and a steamdeck and it ran wonderfully?

Doesnt even apply to other games either, just about every game ive attempted to run on steam has worked brilliantly, only issues being games with certain anticheats. Whereas other launchers like epic take 5 years to load and I couldn't get the games to even run. Gog doesnt have Linux support, however has worked somewhat well for me in the past once lutris got it working.

AC Odyssey is 7 years old though. I don't know any of the other titles, but I suspect they are not exactly recent either.

Loonix users when games designed for windows don’t run on their OS held with duct tape and bubble gum:

Too bad they shut down the prince of persia team

PoP was last year

Stray is such an amazing game. Real work of art. I love how we discover more and more of the story of this world.

I can't wait to play Expedition 33.

Mario/Rabbids is the game nobody asked for or expected anything from, and it turned out great. Instead of just a knockoff silly minions game, it was an amazing XCOM-lite with fun environments and suprisingly-deep tactical gameplay.

Real talk. Ubisoft in general have made some great games. Their current business model is to pump out repeats of things that worked, and so earn our scorn for them 'as of right now'.

Who played AC 1 and didn't want more. That we're now up to AC 76 doesn't diminish that they made something fun before they beat it to death.

Even their primary accomplishment of making every open-world game follow their formula of '1000 sidequests, item hunts and mini-puzzles' doesn't detract from the fact that those were really fun the first few times.

I wish the best to all the ex-Ubisoft developers. Go make cool shit without the $business oversight$. In an ideal world, the publisher should be there to cover the gaps when a new concept falls flat, not to force developers to keep doing the same profitable thing and otherwise stifle innovation.

What is the point of this post?

You realize that game devs tend to work at many studios over the course of their career? Don't you?

Has fanboys ≠ is a monopoly

Ubisoft has been releasing games half-assed over the last 10ish years also, they turned Rainbow 6 Siege from a $60 first-person shooter with lootboxes into a free-to-play with “Premium” membership.

Also neglect & ban Linux/SteamOS users who want to play their games.

This post shows that Ubisoft devs have real potential if they aren’t constrained by corporate greed and bureaucrats.

All in all, fuck Ubisoft.

Like thanking that dude for breaking up with Adele since her breakout album was basically a breakup album. If you're into Adele. Lol

...mmm, Riot maybe?

Many don't turn around and try making a start-up game though, most just burn out of the industry forever.

I think a big reason for this is because they need to have some kinda airtight clandestine OPSEC if they want to work on anything themselves that they plan to show anybody.

It's been common practice for AAA's to say "Anything you make while you're employed here at all is ours." Sometimes even if you're not AT the studio when you do it.

They just simply assume entitlement to your creativity.

So, quit and make that indie darling, right? But then you need a financial "runway" set up, which sets a hard time limit on production and adds a ton of stress, and you'd better hope it sells well enough to make back the lost income.

The indie successes we've seen are nothing short of extraordinary, but also a textbook example of survivorship bias in action. For every success, there's a million projects that never got off the ground, much less sold successfully.

Facing all this...I celebrate the efforts that beat the odds, and love genuinely good games that simply didn't sell enough to keep the ball rolling.

But I don't fault anybody for just going into something more stable before burnout hits, and they would be destroyed from the inside out.

Also neglect & ban Linux/SteamOS users who want to play their games.

Neglect, Thats almost every studio on the planet, linux gaming is being held up by steam through proton. Tell me more about the banning end of that comment though?

Damn right! Also, fuck those extra launchers and their buggy shit too. Crashing asses!

Did they do something bad? I don't mind them making money so long as they are ethical.