As you probably already know, Ubisoft has officialized the game Assassin's Creed Valhalla for a few hours now. The latter offers you to play a certain Eivor, a Viking warlord ready to do anything to end the conflict between the English and the Vikings. The title will appear on many media, including ninth generation consoles and of course the PC.
However, Ubisoft has just announced news that will upset more than one player. Ubisoft has just announced that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will take the same path as The Division 2. It will therefore be the very first episode of the franchise not to be offered on Steam. Players will then have to go through Uplay or the Epic Games Store to play the game.
This decision is not trivial since it refers directly to the contract signed during the Game Developers Conference of 2019. The latter extended the collaboration between Ubisoft and Epic Games, thus allowing the Epic Games Store to have exclusive future Ubisoft productions including Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
The other reason for this choice is that Ubisoft also revealed that it wanted to avoid Steam because of its "unrealistic" business model. Indeed, these words had been declared by Chris Early, the vice-president of Ubisoft during an interview carried out by the New york times
This does not reflect the current situation of the world in terms of distribution of games.
As a reminder, Steam generally keeps 30% of the profits on the sales of games, unlike the Epic Games Store, which only shares 12% of these same profits. In other words, developers receive 88% of their income by selling their production on the Epic Games Store.
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