Reason for this meme is that some ubisoft titles are shipped with a broken version of ubisoft connect launcher. Installing these games is only possible by running the installer for the launcher again via protontricks.
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Wouldn’t that be first party launchers?
It always reminds me that genshin is playable on Linux with proton (at least in 4.2, and I didn’t even tested wine). It’s just the launcher that doesn’t work. They are just so close yet so far
It is fully playable? I play on Linux with HoyoPlay and I have absolutely no issues?
I haven’t booted it up since 4.2 but I do know I didn’t had any issues. You just need to start from the game exe instead of the launcher
There’s “an anime game” project to workaround the launcher and anti-cheat. Was fully playable when I used it a few months ago, but I did have to change to Proton GE or something else to fix some graphical glitches.
Also, no guarantee your account won’t get banned.
AAGL, it works great, but ‘going around the anti-cheat’ is no longer true, since the mHyProtect is working just fine on Linux
Huh, since when? I did check the project wiki and it still says there’s a workaround for anti-cheat, but whatever. Nice that it’s working better on Linux since I last checked.
Since 4.6 or something like that, don’t remember exact But the anti-cheat with even HoyoPlay is working fine on Linux, even ZZZ worked out of the box right on release
Really? Ubisoft though? If there’s any game studio I could do without, it would be Ubi. Because of their practices I haven’t bought a game from them in years and years, and honestly it’s not even been a challenge to pass them up.
I actually have a number of games that are Ubisoft that I love. They aren’t super new or anything, but they aren’t flops by my metrics (granted, I bought them used long after launch)
I didn’t know they were when I got them, then the ubiconnect thing comes up and I just don’t do that, and it’s just a game that takes longer to load than it should.
Idk about any super bad practices, maybe PC is different from console stuff? (which is how I play, hence used game market, because I can sell it later if needs must) or is this something that spans console as well? What sort of bad practices?
There’s so much attempted shaming in these comments. People like some of their games and some like them a lot. Even if you don’t feel like they’re the best, Original and Odyssey still carry the attachment people have for Assassin’s Creed and Anno 1800 has no real direct comparable alternatives.
Stop trying to make people feel bad for just wanting to enjoy something they like when they are the victim of these companies trying to make their life harder. The fact that Ubisoft treats their customers like trash isn’t something to rub in someone’s face, it’s too bad that some people’s hobbies are locked behind something like that.
The fact that other people dont like Ubisoft’s trash games shouldn’t trigger you so much
In no sense did I say that other people’s dislike for their games is a problem. I take no offense to that. I myself am literally of the opinion that the newer AC games are hard to enjoy and insulting to the players time.
Nonetheless, I can acknowledge that it’s a source of comfort for some, even when I fail to enjoy it. Making them feel bad about it just isn’t OK.
No one is making you feel bad except for yourself, stop being triggered and get over it
Nothing I said was an attempt to make people feel bad. I’m rubbishing Ubisoft’s games and practices: expressing an opinion. If that makes you feel bad then I suggest you look inward.
I’m sorry, but “Really? Ubisoft though?” is not just rubbishing Ubisofts practices. It’s condescending to OP.
The fact that just because I criticized your choice of words makes you assume that it’s in defense of my own tastes is unreasonable too. Is there not a chance someone might sympathise with someone without sitting in the same exact boat as them?
Point is, many people would feel bad about being approached the way you did and it is not exactly unreasonable to think that they would.
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I must confess that I love the Assassins Creed series
The anno series too is something that is very enjoyable
But only up till 4.
And including four, right? And Odyssey?
Four yes. Fuck Odyssey.
Odyssey on Easy/Very Easy, good (the story was fun)
Odyssey on Normal is a grind-a-thon which made me want to never play another Ubisoft game again. Thus far nothing has come out to prove me wrong.
For me, the launchers are sometimes the only thing that worked while trying Linux the other day.
I don’t know what flavor you were using or how skilled you are in linux, but I’m not very skilled with it at all and use PopOS and I’ve been able to play pretty much everything in my library besides destiny 2 and flight sim x.
If you need help, feel free to ask here on lemmy. At least my home instance has more linux users than windows users, and there are many who are happy to help.
The majority of the issues I have with WoW on Linux are because of the battle.net launcher. If they added the game to Steam, I’m sure I wouldn’t have any issues.
Oof, wow doesn’t work properly? That’s sad, out of curiosity, how you name adds ons? Install/download them manually?
It works, it’s just flakey to get battle.net started sometimes.
Add-ons can be managed by either wowup or the curseforge client. I prefer the former since it can install from other sources too.
Weakauras can be updated with both the weakauras companion and wago companion app.
Warcraft logs and raider.io also have Linux clients that can be used.
Well, not exactly to be honest. You’ll still have a lot more problems than gaming on Windows due to fragmentation.
But, if your distribution system is purely flatpak, then yes, it should be smooth.
You’re right. It’s just frustrating that most games could run better (or at all) if publishers paid just a little bit of attention.
linuxgaming without 3rd party launchers.Just slap the “Linux” onto any post and immediately get more upvotes on Lemmy.
Also it’s a Linux community this was posted to.
Lemme try this
upvotes Linux meme
Funnily the first time I tried Linux on my desktop was because I wanted to play BF4 but the EA App refused to launch on Windows 10 even after restarting/reinstalling everything.
I slapped Pop_OS on a backup SSD and got it running through Lutris within the hour.
Origin was a fucking nightmare to use even on Windows, and honestly…the EA desktop app wasn’t really an improvement.
Origin was better in literally every way, but it’s predecessor, the EA Download Manager, was even better, as it wasn’t an always-online DRM piece of shit. You logged in, it listed your games, it downloaded them, and games still used a CD key.
Though I’m still pissy, as I bought NFS Carbon and obtained it via EADM, but when they moved to Origin, existing games didn’t transfer, and there was no way to grab games for archival. So EA owes me a fucking copy of Carbon, since I didn’t have it installed when they sunset EADM.
Fuck you, EA. In every conceivable sense of the word and action.
and kernel-level anticheat. cant forget that one.
That’s a tough one. Clearly, everyone hates both kernel-level anticheat and cheaters. The level of hate depends.
Cheaters are a solved problem, in my opinion. It used to be that people hosted servers- moderating and managing their own communities. The industry went away from that in pursuit of cosmetics and control. There aren’t cheaters on well managed community servers in Valve games, but cheaters run rampant in matchmaking in those same games.
The issue is that that’s only a solution for a certain type of multiplayer game. MMOs and battle royales for example cannot feasibly implement community servers as their main form of multiplayer connection, because very few people have the capabilities to host such servers, much less moderate them at such high player counts. Heck, there’s even arguments to be made for the value of public matchmaking, despite how often it gets blasted in spaces such as this. Private servers are unfortunately not a one-size-fits-all solution.
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There’s plenty of private MMO servers though.
You’re right, there are, but my point was that private MMO servers are significantly harder to host and moderate than a private server in a match-based multiplayer game like say Team Fortress 2. An MMO that relies on private servers is almost certainly doomed to fail, so it must have some form of official server, which then will need some form of cheating prevention.
Cracks.
Piracy ர
Why do you want to play Ubisoft games?
Sometimes they’re fun, sometimes friends play them and you want to join?
Anno1800 is actually fun (bought it before the steam release and don’t wanna buy it again)
I really enjoyed origins and odyssey they were flawed but relaxing and fun
Oh no someone has a different opinion of enjoyment of an entertainment product better down vote them! Fucking cringe
honestly just PC gaming in general without 3rd party launchers
Sometimes they make sense for managing mod-sets/different instances (i.e. Stellaris or most famously Minecraft.
well yeah obviously, 3rd party launchers that are optional to use because they serve a purpose. Forced launchers like uplay and origin are the issue. they serve no purpose and offer a worse experience for the user and are forced on your system. Back in my day when a piece of software came with something else that pops up on your screen and runs in the background bogging down your system and collecting data, we considered that a virus.
Forced launchers like uplay and origin are the issue
These are usually first-party though (made by the same company that makes the game), not third-party.
in my mind tho steam is the first party launcher cause that’s the launcher I bought the game from. If your game comes shipped with another one that’s gonna run when I try to play just don’t bother putting it on steam. I bought Far cry 3 and refunded it just because of uplay being jank. I still played the game, just pirated it
tbh i’m pretty happy installing everything through Lutris
it works great for gog games and pirated games
Can’t play one of my favorite MMOs on Linux because it now strictly requires the launcher that doesn’t work.
The game works! Before transitioning to a new launcher and strict laucher-only startup, it was fine. But now…yeah.
No way to extract what the launcher does and use it as launch options in whatever youre using to launch the game?
Didn’t find a way
If you’re talking about runescape, I’ve been using the fan made Bolt Launcher and it works great
Nah, Revelation Online. Requires VK Games launcher to start. But I’ll see if your method works somehow, thanks!
Which MMO?
Revelation Online
Arr yarr ahoy and avast!
I hope you are running these games sandboxed and never on bare metal.
Cracking group reputation yadda yadda.
