It does require you to use Ubisoft Connect, but it's already embedded with the Steam download. You also still need to link your Connect account to Steam.

It just doesn't require you to download & install it separately.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

am i the only one that ignores every assassins creed release since the early ones?

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I haven't played since blackflag, and I've not regretted it

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 5 points 22 hours ago

Syndicate and unity are nice actually but so bad about optimization performance

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

this is the only one ive been meaning to play. heres hoping it aged well.

[–] uglycuckling@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

I've played it about 5 or 6 years ago for the first time and I loved it, but I don't know how it would have aged since then. I think they're making a remastered version though, if they don't fuck it up it could be worth waiting for.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 13 points 23 hours ago

It does require a Ubisoft account to be connected

[–] smegger@aussie.zone 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Good step. Can they go back and also remove the launcher requirements for some of their older games too?

[–] k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

This is a falsely misleading article, the launcher and login requirement are all there, theyre just not a separate install anymore.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 22 hours ago

They still require you to have an account and its running an embedded version of the launcher anyway. Surely peoples issues with the launcher isn't mainly "I don't want to have to have another application installed" and is more "I dont want to make an account with yet another company and have them harvesting my data"

[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 23 hours ago

Recently launched Sims 4 on my Linux System and was surprised to see that it worked despite EA App/Origin/orwhateveritscalled not being installed :3

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What are the chances that the launcher gets patched in after release? Wouldn't be the first time.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Actually read the whole post. The launcher is already embedded and you have to link you ubi account to your steam account.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago

The way I understood it is that the "lite" version of the launcher is embedded in the main menu of the game. I remember 2K games doing the same thing for some titles and adding the full launcher in a patch a few months after release.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I honestly don't understand how these publishers don't understand that foregoing their tumorous launchers and trackers would lead to a ridiculous amount of good publicity and a much-needed uptick in everyone's perception of them....

[–] k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yeah i assume ubisoft thinks they can get some of that good will by embedding their drm straight into their games where the layfolk will notice it less.

Clearly it worked for the idiots who titled this article and reposted it.