Steam Users Rejoice as Ubisoft Kills Controversial Launcher

Another PC game launcher is being taken out to pasture. It seems that Ubisoft will be the latest game company to move away from including its own launcher with Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. It's difficult to verify the Reddit post directly, because the linked Steam page appears The Lost Crown. While you can see part of the message if you search for “Ubisoft” on Steam’s news feed, .

Why did players hate the Ubisoft Connect PC launcher?

As for why the Ubisoft launcher was unpopular, many players generally dislike mandatory launchers for PC games. For one, this requires users to open Steam, and then open a second launcher. More pressingly, these launchers are often associated with other drawbacks, like requiring publisher-specific accounts to access certain games and built-in DRM.

In a particularly extreme example, the Sony-published , resulting in huge performance increases. While Tokon doesn’t use a launcher, Sony’s general handling of the game embodies everything players hate about this software's potential effects.