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?

[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.

[TristanMike]

You even need Uplay for a DEMO....a freaking DEMO, WTH Ubisoft ?

[Vegeta501]

I have many games from ubisoft and never had a problem with Uplay, guess I'm lucky.

[Slimeyz]

Oprindeligt skrevet af 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?

[mrraser]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Slimeyz:

Oprindeligt skrevet af 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?

its like steam, bnet, origin ect, you have to log in every time you wanna play the game

[Odai]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Slimeyz:

Oprindeligt skrevet af 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 will need to start steam, to start uplay, be logged in both of them to play the game.

Its annoying like hell, i hope they die like games for windows live

[Noxx]

You basicaly link your Uplay and Steam and it just automatically launches after the first time. I've never entered my Uplay after the first time.

I've played the Assassin Creed games, Might and Magic X, Fry Cry 3 and Blood Dragon, Splinter Cell and probably some other games I can't remember that use Uplay.
I've never had even a single problem, error, or service disruption.

I don't exactly enjoy being forced to use Uplay, and Ubisoft as a company makes some pretty questionable decisions people may not want to support. Others DO have problems with Uplay but I've personally never had any issues with it.

[Slimeyz]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Katalist:

You basicaly link your Uplay and Steam and it just automatically launches after the first time. I've never entered my Uplay after the first time.

I've played the Assassin Creed games, Might and Magic X, Fry Cry 3 and Blood Dragon, Splinter Cell and probably some other games I can't remember that use Uplay.
I've never had even a single problem, error, or service disruption.

I don't exactly enjoy being forced to use Uplay, and Ubisoft as a company makes some pretty questionable decisions people may not want to support. Others DO have problems with Uplay but I've personally never had any issues with it.

Well, could be worse. Thanks to everyone who replied.

[Don Vincenzoo 57]

i have uplay for 3 games .... it had things that steam have .... globally it's the same than steam but it's not as good .
it fail 3 times to cloud save so i lost all and have to do again from start a game 3 times.
it take time to save leaderbnoard on game like TRIALS evolution ...
no possibility to change your name ....
you have to do again a new friendlist for this game cause it don't use steam friend list .
you don't have automatic update from steam and when you want to play a uplay game you have to wait for a download.
it is useless cause we alreadf use steam and manage our game with it .

if i use big picture and start uplay game i have to go pc and enter username pâssword and it broke big picture experience and it is serious when you have 2d screen in use only in an other room where yu can not bring kb and mouse .

i really stop support this uplay and will never buy a game that force me to use it now !

south park and gunslinger western shooter are ubisoft without uplay !

[Ryu_Sheng]

Same TBH. I've never had any major problems with UPlay, and the ones i've had i've resolved by ringing their tech support.

Steam however has a lot of issues for me (and others), and getting any sort of support from valve is like getting blood from a stone.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dieudonné Mbala Mbala:

i have uplay for 3 games .... it had things that steam have .... globally it's the same than steam but it's not as good .
it fail 3 times to cloud save so i lost all and have to do again from start a game 3 times.
it take time to save leaderbnoard on game like TRIALS evolution ...

Steam cloud save is horrific, it can screw over your games no end. As a result i personally don't use it, prefer to use dropbox. I've also had steam corrupt saves of games while playing the game because steam overlay has crashed.

As for UPlay not being as good, firstly Steam is a LOT older, secondly steam only recently started to add in functionality that should have been in from the start. And what's more UPlay has the reward scheme, which i personally like. Makes achievement completion worth while.

no possibility to change your name ....

Of course this is vitaly important and not having it is a crime against humanity!! (with ultra heavy sarcasam!)

you have to do again a new friendlist for this game cause it don't use steam friend list .

Not so, if you bought the game on steam then just use your steam friends list, nothing says you HAVE to use UPlay friends list. It's just there because their games aren't sold exclusivly on steam.

you don't have automatic update from steam and when you want to play a uplay game you have to wait for a download.
it is useless cause we alreadf use steam and manage our game with it .

Never had a problem with this, mainly because my rig is set to auto update anyway./ so all my games auto update.

if i use big picture and start uplay game i have to go pc and enter username pâssword and it broke big picture experience and it is serious when you have 2d screen in use only in an other room where yu can not bring kb and mouse .

Called a wireless pad bro, look them up. There's various sizes from full laptop style pads all the way down to mini ones.

[Slimeyz]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Industrial:

Uplay = No Play

I was about to buy it but I won't I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate uPlay, I'll get it another way, too bad...

Yeah, but why is UPlay stopping you from buying it?

[Ryu_Sheng]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Slimeyz:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Industrial:

Uplay = No Play

I was about to buy it but I won't I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate uPlay, I'll get it another way, too bad...

Yeah, but why is UPlay stopping you from buying it?

Mostly it the usuall internet bandwagon. It's the 'in' thing to hate on anything none steam. However some people genuinely do have issues running UPlay, just like theres people (like me) who have issues with steam

[Slimeyz]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rhenthyl:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Slimeyz:

Yeah, but why is UPlay stopping you from buying it?

Mostly it the usuall internet bandwagon. It's the 'in' thing to hate on anything none steam. However some people genuinely do have issues running UPlay, just like theres people (like me) who have issues with steam

Apparently UPlay isn't too big of a problem so I guess i'll be buying Child of Light when it goes on sale. Though the 25% off for a daily deal seems like a little much...

[Abaddon1]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rhenthyl:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Slimeyz:

Yeah, but why is UPlay stopping you from buying it?

Mostly it the usuall internet bandwagon. It's the 'in' thing to hate on anything none steam. However some people genuinely do have issues running UPlay, just like theres people (like me) who have issues with steam

At least its not Games for WIndows live. Good god that thing never worked. I'd buy a game that happened to use GFWL, and then it would be a couple days before I could get GFWK to work at all. At least Uplay hasn't done that to me.

[데킬라 샷]

I never have any problem with Uplay, sometimes it's a better alternative for me since Child of light is region locked on steam, at least in Asia.
So I got the Uplay version, it's fully unlocked I won't have any problem since I'm traveling a lot.
I kinda like there rewards system as well, instead of steam cards you unlock in games items.
The only thing that bother me is that I can't minimize Uplay to my taskbar but that's not a big deal.