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Here's some on my list:

  • Red Dead Redemption 2 - I do not want to deal with the Rockstar Games launcher.

  • Tom Clancy's Breakpoint - The game's add-on packs feel like Ubisoft is trying to nickel and dime gamers who would instinctively buy the GOTY equivalent of a title. I do not want to deal with a Ubisoft launcher or account.

  • Zombi - According to the Steam reviews it required a Uplay login to validate the game before you play and that version of the Ubisoft service no longer exists. This seems to have been rectified but I still don't trust it and don't want to go through the refund process if it hasn't.

  • Skyrim VR - I've already bought too many copies of Skyrim.

A bit of a "this is why I pirate" thread but more targeted at individual games.

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[–] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The assassin's creed games because of Uplay being a pain on linux.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

I had no problem playing Origins through Heroic Launcher.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 8 points 1 day ago

Lol I was trying to play Dragon Age games a couple months ago, and the EA app is so terrible that I couldn't get them to run on windows. But on Linux in the proton sandbox? No problem, worked right out of the box. 😂😂

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Apparently the next one wont require uplay (on steam) and will be supported on linux. I'm still not interested in it because of the trend of assassins creed becoming supermassive open world RPGs but it would be nice if it became a trend.

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Assassin's Creed died a long time ago. The skinwalkers can't compare.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I liked Origins, but not as an Assassins creed game. I'd say Assassins Creed died with Syndicate.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Absolutely this. I have to admit I'm seeing some things I like in Shadows much more akin to what we should have been having for the past decade but I just don't trust Ubisoft anymore and even on Deaths' door they can't let the corpo scummery go and I refuse to have Uplay or Denuvo infect my computer so I'll not play it until it's been broken.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I played Anno 1800 with Proton a week or two ago and it worked just fine... I didn't have to log in, I just exited Uplay when it popped up and the game still worked.

Dunno if that's the case for all Uplay games or if I got lucky.