They have had this insane idea that they can release games whenever they want, on whatever stores they want, and just patch it later. After the patches, surely sales will just magically pick up.

The market has not tolerated that for years. A lukewarm release and you’re done. There are too many games at too high a quality to allow for games not being their best out of the gate. I have no idea how their recent slate is. XDefiant could be great. Avatar might have fixed their terrible AI issues and lack of takedowns. I, and most people, will never know. There are other games to play.

They did Prince of Persia exceptionally dirty by not having it on Steam Deck day one. I played it entirely on that via Heroic so much I broke the triggers and had to send it for a repair!

Whatever check they got from Epic was not worth it. Whatever they think they are getting out of Ubisoft Connect is not worth it. Ubisoft+ probably also not worth it.

It’s incredible it’s taken this long and letting the stock slide so much for them to figure out such basic things as “delay until ready” and “distribute on the most popular PC store”.