What is UPlay and why is everyone so against it?

[Slimeyz]

I was thinking of buying Child of Light because it's on the Steam Sale, but after seeing the discussions, everyone's dismissing the game for having UPlay. What's wrong with it?

[kingfish_ak]

If you purchased on steam you need both Uplay and steam to play online. Once you own the game you can play with steam only in offline mode. People who are saying you can play without steam are incorect and are either trolling or there was a Uplay error in their favor (which rarely if ever happens)

Anyone who is defending Uplay is in a significant minority considdering it is among the most hated DRM/EDS available.

Steam IS NOT DRM. Uplay IS NOT DRM. UBIsoft uses DRM on Uplay.

As long as Ubi continues to use Uplay I am not interested in their product lineup of AC clones.

[waywardangelic]

I SPENT 15 DAMN DOLLARS ON THIS GAME AND NOW I CAN'T EVEN PLAY IT! UPLAY IS ABSOLUTE SH1T

[METAL]

uplay is not the most hated DRM. LIVE is. and with very good reasons. i sure cna share my fair experience with it. and steam, origin, etc are DRM.

@dumbledora
what exactly is the problem?

[Abaddon1]

Origineel geplaatst door METAL:

uplay is not the most hated DRM. LIVE is. and with very good reasons. i sure cna share my fair experience with it. and steam, origin, etc are DRM.

Ya, anyone who thinks Uplay is worse than GFWL obviously has never had to do anything with GFWL, ever.

[METAL]

Origineel geplaatst door ₰ abaddon1:

Origineel geplaatst door METAL:

uplay is not the most hated DRM. LIVE is. and with very good reasons. i sure cna share my fair experience with it. and steam, origin, etc are DRM.

Ya, anyone who thinks Uplay is worse than GFWL obviously has never had to do anything with GFWL, ever.

my observation as well.

[Scremlin]

I haven't had a problem with Uplay yet, and I don't really mind the double log in thing. Not sure why everyone's complaining unless Uplay won't work for them at all. =/

[JARK]

I think most people hate Uplay because other people are averse to it (Uplay represents change and having to kowtow to another's policy).

same reason why they hated GFWL -- I know very few people who had real gripes with it. My own gripes were at the very beginning of my LIVE career (2008) and at the "end" (there's no end at the moment) last month. I actually prefer LIVE achievements over all others and gaming with my "friends" in that community.

[Abaddon1]

Origineel geplaatst door Jarrkha1:

I think most people hate Uplay because other people are averse to it (Uplay represents change and having to kowtow to another's policy).

same reason why they hated GFWL -- I know very few people who had real gripes with it. My own gripes were at the very beginning of my LIVE career (2008) and at the "end" (there's no end at the moment) last month. I actually prefer LIVE achievements over all others and gaming with my "friends" in that community.

Well, no I had very real gripes with GFWL, it would never allow anyone I knew to log in unless you spent a few days fighting through various websites with hundreds of possible fixes until you finally found the one that magically made GFWL function again for a month or two only to break itself again. It was only a year or two ago that they actually made GFWL stable enough it wasn't breaking itself all the time.

[Authentic RooR]

Honestly, I like the UPlay. It is a slight pain to make another account, but if you just tell it to automatically log you in (which I do because it's the only game I have through it) it's basically an additional 5 seconds before your game begins, making it a non-issue.

The positives of it is that you get UPlay points for your time in game, which can then be exchanged for potions and buffs in the game. It's basically an achievement system that actually rewards you in game with additional items. This game is way too good to dismiss simply because you have to click a few extra buttons the first time you play it. Disregard complaints, get this game, and enjoy.

[LoTekRabbit]

Origineel geplaatst door Slimeyz:

Origineel geplaatst door Moon Punisher:

Uplay is ubisoft DRM , to make it simple , you buy it here on steam , then you need to create a ubisoft account and download/instal/login in uplay to play the game.

So you need 2 logins to play your game , which annoy a lot of people + uplay tends to have errors all the time , quite sure you can find multiple threads where people just could not login for example.

Thanks for answering. Do you know if it asks users to login every time they load up the game, or is it a one time thing?

You login once and it's automatic after. The UPlay client for Steam Ubisoft games is a lightweight version of it. I don't find it intrusive at all.

[Jinx]

Origineel geplaatst door Moon Punisher:

Uplay is ubisoft DRM , to make it simple , you buy it here on steam , then you need to create a ubisoft account.....So you need 2 logins to play your game

Or you could buy direct uplay as steam is the additional DRM that simply gives you a uplay key

[Tzitzimime]

Origineel geplaatst door Sjpeser:

All this BS is amazing, you are all on a DRM called Steam.. Even if the game isn't made by Valve, you still need Steam. UPlay isn't the best there is, but it does what it has to do, it has a cloud save which works flawlessly for me (I use 1 PC and 2 laptops). You don't even need Steam to play Child of Light, just Uplay!

I bet most of you also skipped Origin, and missed out on some amazing games aswell because it's the same as Steam. And guess what, Origin works flawlessly aswell!

To all the people complaining about Uplay, remember when you had to install Steam when Half Life 2 was released? Nobody wanted it, it was bad and blablabla. Seems like you all are on Steam now aren't you?

TL;DR:
Quit ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about Uplay, people ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about Steam aswell and it is the biggest most used DRM for anyone here.

This game is amazingly good, if you want to skip it because of some BS reason, go ahead, your loss. But don't make the decision for other people that probably don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about Uplay running next to all the other processes in your PC.

If you like what you see on the store page, get it. You won't regret it.

x2

[mimi7330]

It can't be that bad, if you log in once I have seen many people state that they only had to log in once for it to link with your steam account...if you really want a game like I do then just get it all you need to do is make an additional account which can't really be that bad.

[Malagon]

Uplay can rot in hell. I bought this game and could never get it to run because Uplay never did work for me. To this day I've not played a single minute of this game. ♥♥♥♥ Uplay and ♥♥♥♥ Ubisoft.

[mimi7330]

Origineel geplaatst door Malagon:

Uplay can rot in hell. I bought this game and could never get it to run because Uplay never did work for me. To this day I've not played a single minute of this game. ♥♥♥♥ Uplay and ♥♥♥♥ Ubisoft.

The game has not yet been released thats why you ca't play it because it is PRE-ORDERED