Here’s some on my list:
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Red Dead Redemption 2 - I do not want to deal with the Rockstar Games launcher.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Red Dead Redemption 2
RDR2 went on sale for $20 a couple of months back which was about what I was willing to pay for it, so I grabbed it then. I tried playing it and it’s just boring. WAY too much riding around on horses just getting to the next bit of action or story. I dropped it and doubt I’ll ever get back to it.
fuck the guy who thought fast travel is bad for immersion
Fast travel is a bit hidden in that game. You have to upgrade the boss’s tent to unlock it.
I did get far enough to unlock fast travel, but it’s extremely limited to the point of uselessness.
I knew this was a horse riding simulator and I had zero interest. like, how did that sneak up on you?
I was gonna buy the foundation game, so I checked out the pirated version (fitgirl repack) first. Seems like it doesn’t run quite as well on my laptop. Had to play in low settings to be bearable.
saved some money, ig. There’s always next sale.
Ubisoft and ea games; I do not want to deal with the launcher and ubisoft games are just so incredibly bad. They’re like marvel movies but less entertaining
Anno 1800 just inhales my free time
Ubisoft games. Too unreliable.
the RDR’s, because, yeah, fuck launchers.
‘deathloop’ love arkane, looks like kinda my shit, but will not tolerate denuvo on my fucking machine, especially because I don’t have particularly high end hardware. I’d love to give them my money, but they don’t seem to want it.
I’ve wanted to try out NFS Unbound for a while now, it regularly goes down to single digit prices but I’d rather eat shit than install an EA launcher on my machine.
The assassin’s creed games because of Uplay being a pain on linux.
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.
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.
Assassin’s Creed died a long time ago. The skinwalkers can’t compare.
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.
I liked Origins, but not as an Assassins creed game. I’d say Assassins Creed died with Syndicate.
I had no problem playing Origins through Heroic Launcher.
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. 😂😂
They’re all still too expensive for me. Like Flight Simulator 2020. I do believe the effort they put into it is probably worth 35 €. But I wouldn’t play enough for it to be worth 35 € for me. And I’m still salty about the time when they accidentally discounted it by 85 % instead of 15 % and snatched it right out of my cart when I was about to pay.
I got caught out by RDR2, tried playing it a few evenings ago, even signed up for a crappy Rockstar account only to be greeted by the “this game is registered to another account” message. Screw them
Got this when I went to play fucking Max Payne 3 a few months ago. Why the hell does a 10 year old name need a rockstar account and why is it such a pain in the dick to restore access? It was easier to just pirate the fucking game and actually own it.
I mean pretty much anything from EA, Ubisoft, 2K, Blizzard/Microsoft, Xbox, Rockstar, etc.
I did actually end up buying a Sony game after they dropped the account-linking requirement.
Anything with DRM. I refuse to put up with it anymore.
Including Steam DRM?
Depends what you mean, Steam is not DRM, most of the game is sells don’t have DRM. However Steam API has a DRM feature that developers can use of they choose to.
So what do you mean?
then why can’t i download an installer without using their client?
because the game itself wants to load the steamapi program library and connect to the steam client. but there is no encryption or other heavy protection involved. grab a steamemu (like the famous goldberg emu), install it for the game (basically copy/replace a file) and done
Most of the games Steam sells are also shovelware.
Major releases typically use at least Steam DRM, and Steam itself only mentions if 3rd party DRM is included. So in most cases, you can’t know if a game uses Steam DRM until after you’ve installed it.
I only bought games that cost 1.99 like portals 2 and undertale
That’s how I ended up with so many games in my backlog
I don’t think I’ll buy Stellaris DLC unless it’s 90% off
Is the game on sale?
Many DLC are.
Idk about the base game
The latest Indiana Jones game, because it’s too damn expensive. It’s normally $120 AUD and has been discounted to $95 AUD. When it’s below $50, then I’ll consider it.
Ghost of Tsushima amd ff7 remake because I’m waiting for steeper discounts
Are you looking for a percentage amount or a dollar amount? Which would seem more appealing?
Probably around 20 euros max per game is what I would be willing to pay
