Rainbow Six: Extraction not being offered on Steam

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Summary

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Extraction comes out January 20 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, Amazon Luna, Stadia, and the Ubisoft Store on PC, as well as via Ubisoft+. The game is $39.99 for base game that includes a 14 day buddy pass for two friends. The game is notably absent from Steam.

 

My thoughts

 While no specific reason for the absence from steam has been given, it could be assumed Ubisoft is planning on including NFTs in the game. Other options could be that they don't want to pay steams fee or they can't implement the buddy system with steam.

 

Sources

 https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/rainbow-six/extraction/news-updates/hRMzJGq9mLGgdYsEpI1Ym/rainbow-six-extraction-launches-january-20-with-buddy-pass

[Quackers101]

might be an exclusive title, not quite tech news. and own thread for the other topic about NFT's.

yes that could be a reason, but we dont know yet. and if they do, its going to be very "balanced".

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

Wasn't that meant to be free to play?

[SlashedM]

On 11/11/2021 at 2:38 PM, tyswid said:

The game is notably absent from Steam

Hasn't most new Ubisoft games been absent from Steam already?

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

6 hours ago, SlashedM said:

Hasn't most new Ubisoft games been absent from Steam already?

They have their own launcher, don't they?

[SlashedM]

16 hours ago, Maury Sells Wigs said:

They have their own launcher, don't they?

Yeah most have just been on Uplay itself. IIIRC only one upcoming game is going to be on steam from Ubisoft, the last one was in 2019. 

[Andreas Lilja]

Last game was The Division 2 in 2019, it's unrelated to NFTs.

 

They did say they might come back if the Deck sells well, but that has been delayed two months.