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The spring Steam sale is happening right now. What games do you want to play but won't buy despite a deep discount and why? (leminal.space)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's some on my list:

Red Dead Redemption 2 - I do not want to deal with the Rockstar Games launcher.
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.
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.
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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

a few weeks ago I have seen watchdogs legion in a few streams an liked it. Recently it had a sale (maybe now again) but saw that it uses denuvo, the ubisoft launcher and that it needs a ubisoft account. no thank you. I'll rather pirate it and be reassured that it'll have less malware in it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised this series of games isn't bigger on Lemmy just due to the whole computer, hacking, type aspect of the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

yeah and also my impression was that it kind of talks about the horrors mass surveillance brings and tries to spread awareness. I was disappointed when my favorite streamer, a Cory Doctorow reader and someone who has a crossed out surveillance camera as their steam profile pic, was just bitching about how it runs and some of the bugs it had, while saying nothing about the story. But at the same time it was kind of expected, they live off of google (youtube) and amazon (twitch) money for a long time now..