Driver San Francisco

Driver San Francisco

I am so sick and F*%k!ng tired of paying money for games I can't play because of some stupid 3rd party DRM ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!
GFWL, Uplay....... who the F*#K knows what else!!!
If steam is going to sell these games to people there should be some way to ensure they will work regardless of all this nonsense!! I can't even count how many times this exact type of scenario has been an issue for me and so many others!! I have a large library of unplayed games and every time I think I'm about to get around to playing one. All too often I discover that I'm not even able to play it at all!!
This is a huge issue and it needs to be addressed, there's nothing worse than paying your hard earned money for a game you can't even play.
I want to pay for games, I want to own them legitimately as it should be. But here's the kicker, I also expect to be able to play them without days on end of troubleshooting because of security issues.
And for the record, yes I've already tried all the helpful suggestions of how to get the game running and none of them have worked for me.
I'm so disappointed at the state of the gaming industry, instead of rewarding paying customers by making it a simple process to play our games. We are punished with all kinds of 3rd party software and security nonsense. I hope the message gets through to somebody at some point that you are hurting, not helping yourselves or us.
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Stoney140 Mar 15, 2015 @ 10:58am 
I have no idea what you're talking about. All of this "3rd part DRM" works perfectly fine for me.

And if it doesn't for you, on the store page there is always a little orange warning telling you about 3rd party DRM. Don't buy games with that warning if they don't work for you.
Wesleypipes77 Mar 15, 2015 @ 7:40pm 
You miss the point entirely, I'm glad it all works fine for you congratulations. But even a quick glance through the discussions, Steam reviews or anywhere on the net and you can see that U(don't)Play is causing problems for many people.
I know there are notices of DRM and a lot of them don't have issues but UPlay and GFWL (non existent yet still attached to older games) are notorious for wasting peoples time troubleshooting issues or even making games unplayable for people who paid for the games. Steam already has it's own DRM and having to deal with double and triple layers of DRM is an unecessary hassle and causes key validation issues as well as so many others. ( I personally haven't had key issues but I see others who have and I'm not only out to consider myself and my own experience here ;)
You are correct on one thing, I won't be buying games with either of these security measures attached any longer, which only means that the companies who use them will no longer make a dollar off of me and likely many others.
Judging from the amount of people having similar issues if we all come to the same decision that is a lot of money they could have made and now won't, which causes more of a problem for the producers than the gamers.
Which brings me back to the point you seem to have missed, this type of bull$#!^ creates a lot of ill will among gamers and ultimately keeps money out of the companies pockets and I'm pretty sure that's not what they want.
As of now I am on a strict "Don't buy anything made by Ubisoft policy". Ultimately that is more their loss than mine.
Last edited by Wesleypipes77; Mar 15, 2015 @ 7:43pm
ERNTE23 Mar 20, 2015 @ 7:09am 
Had problems with Uplay too.
After that the Gamecontroller is not able to steering.
Only in this Game.


There are no options for this problem...i dont think that i buy another Gamecontroller for this ♥♥♥♥.

I dont think that Games like this (i loved Driver I & II) are good to my thrust to Steam.

This is a acceptet problem for "Early acces" titles...in my view...not for Games from years ago.

A Big warning "Only Xbox Controllers" or something...that would be great.


In the End...before i buy anything i read a lot in the Community Hub and the Reviews.

Thougt it will help...then i have buyied DayZ (Great reviews...i dont know why...its disgusting) and Spintires wich was good and after every patch the saves gone away...now this Game dont start anyway.

At this time...i dont Buy 3rd Party and or early access.
Singleplayergames are off from automatic Update to protect them from senseless updates wich kills my Savegames.

Have a nice Day.








SGT. Thread Mar 21, 2015 @ 1:13am 
this sh1t game is hopeless f***ing game just wont work no matter what.
this crappy u(don't)play (as qoted) is horrible wont start every time i try to play i get the same message "uplay has crashed" it does so everytime i start and it says loking for updates. its not even funny i spent money i wokred for on sh1t i could of bought something so much better that could of worked but becuase i liked the other drivers i thought hey lets give this a go and uplay just gave me a NO. f*ck this sh*t. NEVER BUY A GAME BUY UBISOFT/UPLAY! ull just lose money

thanks
Aigis Mar 25, 2015 @ 5:58pm 
This problem is hopeless, it's typical ubisoft behavior. I am now limiting my games wit a strict NO u(DON'T)play OR UBISOFT 3RD PARTY DRM UNDER ANY CURCUMSTANCES.

I can't believe Nerd3 was actually right bout something(That was a sarcastic comment, he has a good batting average of being right, :D)
Shred Apr 3, 2015 @ 4:42am 
uPlay crashes if I try to launch this game on Win 8.1. What is this ♥♥♥♥?
Blue Mountain Apr 11, 2015 @ 12:31pm 
Just installed this for the first time to try out Driver.
Launcher keeps crashing. I can't play what I paid for.

gg Ubisoft; ♥♥♥♥ your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ scam of a company
Rapptture Apr 20, 2015 @ 2:15am 
Originally posted by Sliptack:
Just installed this for the first time to try out Driver.
Launcher keeps crashing. I can't play what I paid for.

gg Ubisoft; ♥♥♥♥ your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ scam of a company

Most of the issues with this game is due to compatibility not uplay. If you find the .exe file for the game usually in its file in steam or ubisoft you can right click it and go to properties, then compatibility mode and check the box to run it under windows 7 or just run the compatibility troubleshooter right there and let it do it. GL. This is the fix... usually.
Moo G60 Apr 26, 2015 @ 6:07am 
I agree with the OP. I am fed up with having to deal with UPLAY and GFWL and all the rest of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!
Jackal Apr 28, 2015 @ 7:57am 
total biscuit fanboys just parroting wah wah ubisoft mantra
i needed to make a uplay account (for no reason that i had to do that) and after that it wont work. i just waster money a few months ago. at least they now have refunding.
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Date Posted: Feb 22, 2015 @ 2:55pm
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