General Gaming News II: Steam Helpdesk Site Leak

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status...22650509164545
https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status...28500887953408

[Gokulo]

Random Polish news:
This War of Mine has been added as "supplementary reading" and will be part of the high school curriculum starting next year. The PC version of the game is available free for download on the Ministry of Education website.

[Mayareira]

Sounds awesome, good to see Poland able to develop its gaming culture further and retain talent.

[Andalusian girls]

we stan progressive Poland

[Gokulo]

we stan progressive Poland

Ohh, that's going too far by a mile. While this is something very cool, seeing a video game being recognized for its educational value here of all places, progressive is nowhere near the word that describes the country's current trajectory... Alongside this they're adding a new subject in school called "History and Present" and the first book they released for teaching it is e.g. demonizing EU for spreading atheism and includes a chapter called "Ideologies and nazism", where ideologies includes things like socialism, feminism and "gender ideology" (the conservatives favorite demonic phrase for LGBTQ+). I think the book still need to be reviewed before it's officially accepted as teaching material but it's been pretty wild reading various quotes from it.

[Andalusian girls]

we stan videogame-positive regressive Poland

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/st...37465748590593

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/st...37465748590593

Appears all of Game Informer's video production staff were laid off.

[Krandor]

Mass layoffs and firings at the same time they're doing a big stock split, ah capitalism

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/Nors3/status/154...B0TO_5g2BnqM4w

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/PaulTassi/status...85540278738945
https://twitter.com/PaulTassi/status...31966559100929

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/Nors3/status/154...B0TO_5g2BnqM4w

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/busine...tially-thought

It's more than just AssCreed: Liberation that's affected.

For the most part, the move will prevent players from accessing online multiplayer, linking Ubisoft accounts, or installing and accessing DLC in numerous titles including Assassin's Creed Revelations and Far Cry 3.

The list of affected titles provided by Ubisoft suggested that only one game, a multiplayer-only VR arcade shooter called Space Junkies, would be made completely unplayable as a result of the move.

Now, however, it seems like other titles such as Assassin's Creed Liberation HD and Silent Hunter 5 will also be inaccessible and therefore unplayable on Steam from September 1.

Updates to the Steam pages for both games now state they have been removed from the storefront at the request of Ubisoft and "will not be accessible following September 1, 2022." That means anybody who has purchased either title through Steam won't be able to revisit them from that point on..

The same notices also appear on the Steam page for Anno 2070, although that's likely because the strategy title is reliant on a third-party Ubisoft DRM.

[synistar]

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/busine...tially-thought

It's more than just AssCreed: Liberation that's affected.

TL;DW - You can access the CD keys via the steam menus, use the keys on UPlay, then refund on Steam.

[NynJa]

Shit like this is absolutely a valid reason to justify piracy. They should be offering an offline copy that legit owners can keep for their own archiving purposes if they absolutely need to remove it from their library. But a billion dollar company should have no problems using 50GB of storage to keep the media available.

[Corrderio]

Wait, what? Game companies can actually remove a game from the store and from Valve's servers so even if you bought it you can't download it again?

EDIT: Oh wait they mean online services. Does that mean even their single player games are required to have you be online to play?

[6souls]

Wait, what? Game companies can actually remove a game from the store and from Valve's servers so even if you bought it you can't download it again?

EDIT: Oh wait they mean online services. Does that mean even their single player games are required to have you be online to play?

In this instance, it's both. Most Ubisoft games have some sort of online check-in, though.

[Corrderio]

That's surprising on the end I always assumed you could download a game off Steam even if you bought it (Like I can with Deadpool) but retarded on the ned that a game requires you to be online for Single Player. I thought everyone learned that lesson after EA got roasted to oblivion and back pulling that shit in SimCity

[Bardicrune]

DRM check-in. If they bring down that DRM server, it can't check-in and won't run anyway. Because why release a patch to disable the DRM component when the can release a remaster version in two years.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/Nors3/status/154...B0TO_5g2BnqM4w

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/busine...tially-thought

It's more than just AssCreed: Liberation that's affected.

Update

https://twitter.com/Kotaku/status/1546544201025916928

[Kaisha]

How about they use their millions of dollars of yearly revenue and just do end-of-life support updates for each affected title so they could still 'sell' the single-player experience.