Why so much Uplay hate?

[ShaDoW]

Seriously, i can perfectly understand why people don't wanna play EA games through Origin, but Uplay? If you buy an Ubisoft game through Steam you only need click the play button and wait a few seconds for the game to launch, uplay is almost unnoticeable, so why so many people seem to hate it? What's the reason?

[Jimmi Stixx]

Yep. Just went to play the game and it needs a 5 minute patch for Uplay again. Then I tryed to play later and it started downloading another patch just about an hour later. ♥♥♥♥ UPLAY!

How come if it's UBI's money it's not my game? Too bad, I liked the game too but it's uninstall time I think. Maybe i'll torrent a cracked version.

UBIsoft is dead to me.

[pnkgtr]

Ubi wants to control their content and not have to share with some third party. I get that. They want their own rewards program, achievements and the ability to offer their games and DLC the way Steam does. Steam is very convenient for most of us and Uplay is sluggish but I understand why Uplay exists and I don't have a problem with it.

[Jimmi Stixx]

Автор сообщения: pnkgtr

Ubi wants to control their content and not have to share with some third party. I get that. They want their own rewards program, achievements and the ability to offer their games and DLC the way Steam does. Steam is very convenient for most of us and Uplay is sluggish but I understand why Uplay exists and I don't have a problem with it.

It will always be a failure if it only offers UBIsoft games unlike Steam. It's ill conceived DRM at best.

[XExarKunX]

ubisoft has some fun games and coming from console (where uplay is deffinetly better but still not a needed thing they need to have going on)i wont deny myself some of the most fun games ive played in a long time over some petty DRM crap lol.

[Retro]

This isn't my work, I got it off here, but I thought I would throw it out for people to try.
I made a shortcut on my desktop with the following command line:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon\bin\fc3_blooddragon.exe" "-uplay_steam_mode"

This is pertaining to my system of course, you would have to adjust to your directory structure. This starts up Blood Dragon without having Steam started, and goes directly to the game. I also have the uPlay client set to always start in offline mode, works a treat.

[robomagon]

Автор сообщения: Retro

This isn't my work, I got it off here, but I thought I would throw it out for people to try.
I made a shortcut on my desktop with the following command line:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon\bin\fc3_blooddragon.exe" "-uplay_steam_mode"

This is pertaining to my system of course, you would have to adjust to your directory structure. This starts up Blood Dragon without having Steam started, and goes directly to the game. I also have the uPlay client set to always start in offline mode, works a treat.

If only it worked the other way around...

[W_2_P]

Impossible to install games.

[*****]

Con:
- UPlay doesn't have ANY advantages compared to steam. So WHY do I have to install it?
- You have to register to another "service" - no additional use, but another service that can be hacked.
- UPlay crashes sometimes. At least on my PC. After that also most games stop working. Since it even crashes sometimes when no game is running, it's not the game's fault. Steam works just fine.
- Remember Settlers 7? Always On even in single player. But Ubisoft underestimated the number of players. So the game stuttered. If it could connect to a server.
Pro:
There is no pro about Uplay. Especially if you bought a game on steam. But a lot of con's. And that's the reason why Ubisoft deserves the hate for UPlay.

[T100]

I cannot play far cry 3 or blood dragon because of all the DRM.

[SK]

I'm trying to create Uplay account right now. It says "Ubisoft servers is currently unavailable". This is answer to your question. Why should i register in every ♥♥♥♥♥♥ service, rather than just play my game?

[Jimmi Stixx]

I was old enough to remember not being treated like a thief by the video games industry. Now it's just standard practice. Poor kids today will learn that eating sh!t is just a part of gameing. Having nothing but wistful old timers to listen to gripe about how things used to be better...

[丂ｱ乇丂丂ひ_丂乃]

Автор сообщения: Aaron Rodgers

I was old enough to remember not being treated like a thief by the video games industry. Now it's just standard practice. Poor kids today will learn that eating sh!t is just a part of gameing. Having nothing but wistful old timers to listen to gripe about how things used to be better...

I feel you on this, i really do..

[[_]]

My 2 cents on it.
This game is the first ubisoft game I play in 8 years, I didn't know about uplay, I don't have an uplay account, I hate the bloat of having to create 100 different accounts for 100 different services, and after installing and launching the game the first time having the "you need to install uplay and make an account" instead of going straight to the game annoyed me as hell.
So much I instaquitted uplay, so I didn't launch fc3bd, but steam kept thinking I was in the game and I couldn't launch any other game and I couldn't exit from steam, and my only option was to reboot my pc.

All this for a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless overhead service.

And now I read that if I register for the first time on a network I can't play the game on the same pc but on a different network? Are you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kidding me?

[R5CYA]

"And now I read that if I register for the first time on a network I can't play the game on the same pc but on a different network? Are you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kidding me?"
what? does that even make sense to you? did you get pc and network swapped around? and what networks are you talking about? i don't get what you're trying to say here.

[[_]]

I was quoting this guy.

Автор сообщения: Krimsonk

always on DRM, isnt it?

I have it on my laptop and cant play it unless im at home on my network which kind of defeats the purpose of putting it on my laptop.

Uplay hate is justified

I haven't had the occasion to verify if it's true, but if it is, that's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid.