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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
