{"id":112246,"date":"2020-04-30T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/362175"},"modified":"2020-04-30T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:14:00","slug":"assassins-creed-valhalla-wont-be-launching-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/30\/assassins-creed-valhalla-wont-be-launching-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla won&#8217;t be launching on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Ubisoft\u2019s freshly unveiled next <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em> game,<em> Assassin\u2019s Creed Valhalla<\/em>, won\u2019t be up for purchase on Steam at launch, instead opting to bring its PC release to only the Epic Games Store and its own Uplay platform.<\/p>\n<p>Though a high-profile game opting to skip a day-one Steam launch is noteworthy, <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Valhalla<\/em> doing so isn\u2019t entirely surprising at this point. Ubisoft itself forged a relationship with Epic Games back in the early days of the Epic Games Store right around the time <em>The Division 2 <\/em>was wrapped up in a <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/334073\/The_Division_2_is_skipping_Steam_in_favor_of_the_Epic_Games_Store.php\">similar exclusivity announcement<\/a>. This latest development looks to be a continuation of that previous arrangement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Ubisoft\u2019s freshly unveiled next Assassin\u2019s Creed game, Assassin\u2019s Creed Valhalla, won\u2019t be up for purchase on Steam at launch, instead opting to bring its PC release to only the Epic Games Store and its own Uplay platform. Though a high-profile game opting to skip a day-one Steam launch is noteworthy, Assassin\u2019s Creed Valhalla doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}