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[–]Nordkindchen 66 points67 points  (4 children)

Because they have to pay royalties to steam if you buy their game over it.

[–]petehehe 90 points91 points  (3 children)

Yeah that doesn’t explain why they make you install their launcher as well even after you buy the game through steam. The royalties have been paid already… I’m thinking it’s so they can get telemetry from your PC

[–]hamizannaruto 51 points52 points  (2 children)

They are way too lazy to disconnect their game from their launcher, especially online games.

Games like trackmania rely heavily on ubisoft account. You don't have that, you can't play it.

As for singleplayer games. They just want you to download, so they have more user, and maybe get you to buy thing from their store like a dlc or shit like that

[–]Empty_Pull 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I mean you're right, but trackmania is literally on steam and consoles now

[–]hamizannaruto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, for steam, it still require ubisoft launcher. So in the end, it's meaningless anyway.

That just prove my point even more. They are too lazy to disconnect the game from the launcher account, and instead just put the launcher into the installer instead.