valve does a lot though. they continue to expand their store and related products, OS, hardware
if they did nothing another company would have leapfrogged them in terms of digital storefronts
Like, you're not wrong, but even if Steam hadn't changed in the last 5-10 years, it would probably still be the best digital store front out there.
I think by "do nothing" he means no arbitrary interface changes, new features no one asked for, etc.
That's the sort of "doing something for the sake of doing something" stuff that Microsoft and Apple often do that people hate.
Yeah I really don't get why people try to act like Valve doesn't provide a ton of value to its customers. So much so that their "competitors" have basically said before they aren't even going to try to compete on features or merit, because it would cost too much/they are too far behind at this point.
I think doing nothing is an overlooked business strategy. Companies always expect change and improvement. There must be a new version, a new redesign, a new functionality, a new hype. It looks good on paper and signals leadership to the investors, even when what the customer really wants is just stability and consistency. We saw it with Windows, where Microsoft's endless hype-chasing led us to Windows 11. If stagnation is one extreme of business strategies, then whatever these tech companies are doing is the opposite extreme.
Valve knows what to change and, more importantly, what not to change.
Will probably require uPlay/Ubisoft Connect launcher anyway
They certainly will.
Just one more launcher bro just one more login bro just one more email verification bro just one more app bro just one more website bro just one more link to another game store bro just one more authenticator bro just one more
Won't buy from Ubisoft again so it wouldn't matter anyways to me. They've burnt any good will I initially had for them.
Goodwill asside, their games just aren't even fun. They're all the same game loop:
- walk around listening to an unskippable dialogue
- climb to the top of something to clear out part of the map and place a bunch of markers on it
- go to the various markers to collect pointless garbage
- fight some trash mobs with a very generous parry-based combat system
- complete the next main questline
- get a weapon upgrade you'll immediately forget about
- repeat
Yeah true. I haven't been interested in almost anything they've put out in recent memory.
as an illustration of our player-centric approach
Or in other words: We lots loads of money when people didn't flock to our exclusive platform like we wanted and it seems they don't like being squeezed for every penny they have.
Were they not launching day 1 on steam? I don't keep up with games I can't afford lol.
From 2019, they stopped releasing their games on Steam and exclusively released them on their own launcher and Epic Games Store. From 2022, they slowly began putting their games back on Steam (not as day one releases), and now it seems like they are giving up on exclusivity... EA tried same tactic, failed and back on Steam.
Go nuts, I already set my steam store to ignore any and all ubisoft releases.
Search Ubisoft in the steam store page.
On the right hand side of Ubisofts page you will see a gear icon. Click ignore to take out the trash.
That's nice but,
- Ubisoft games are ass
- Day 1 on Steam doesn't matter if I have to install a Ubisoft client and like 4 DRM software's to play the game anyway
- It would take a lot more for a long time for Ubisoft to repair the damage it's done to it's reputation over the last decade or more
hmm ubisoft trying to be atleast somewhat decent, next they should get rid of their launcher
