My Steam Deck made me more aware of shitty practices by publishers/developers

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Phiedie on 2024-06-30 09:13:42+00:00.

I used to only play games on my desktop pc. So stuff like always online or additional launchers did not annoy me or i did not even notice them. On my Steam Deck this makes some games unplayable for me and i hate it.

Anything that uses Ubisoft connect i just do not play anymore as i don't want to log in every time. Why does it not safe my login? I know there is a way to make Ubisoft connect go into an offline mode. But they made it very hard to achieve that an every couple of weeks you have to repeat the process. I hate that as AC Black flag is great on the steam deck otherwise (Besides the cloud safes not working).

And then there is Shadow of War. A game i also really like but it needs an Internet connection to be played. Just why?

Why can i not play this single player game on the go?

Do you have any games that would be great on the Steam Deck but are unplayable because of stuff like this?