Ubisoft Ditching Connect App for Steam Users

so yeah, they are only starting with one game which is that latest Prince of Persia but plan on no longer requiring Ubisoft Connect for any games for Steam users. Personally i'm still salty about "The Crew" and consider that an unforgivable sin. and don't plan on returning as a customer.

Supposedly their stock is down 90% so it may be too little too late? Oh and one other thing, they say they are going to try switching to "ubisoft services" rather then make people use the launcher. but if that's some background service you have to install to play their games, which will probably startup at boot by default, i don't know if that's even any better? and what about linux users?

https://www.techspot.com/news/113817-ubisoft-finally-testing-way-ditch-own-connect-launcher.html

Hopefully people let Ubi die.

You be soft.

THat's not very [H]ard, now is it?

I mean, the fewer of these garbage forced launchers we have to deal with the better, though I tend to agree that the fact that they were willing to inconvenience their customers into try to force them to using their garbage store application, and only backed off out of desperation isn't necessarily anything to brag about.

I'm personally sick and tired of "launchers" in general. Absolutely pointless software that I want nothing to do with. If I own a game on a platform, just open it when I click it, don't send me into another piece of software where I have to click it again.

I have bought all my Ubisoft games on Ubisoft Connect for the past decade.