Activate uPlay key on Steam?

[nightcabbage]

I just got a copy of FarCry 4 with a promo code, which forced me to redeem through uPlay (which I loathe). I found the section where it shows me the "Activation Keys". However, when I try to activate it on Steam, it doesn't work. Please, please tell me this is possible and I just haven't found the correct key yet...

[nya[dc]]

It's not.

[nightcabbage]

GAH!!! Why oh why, publishers, must you hate gamers so?

[INSTG8R™]

If you activated on Steam it would just use Uplay anyway...

[nightcabbage]

The real issue for me is that my entire collection is on Steam, and that's the client I use everywhere I go. I don't use uPlay for anything, nor do I want to. 'Tis forced upon me like GWL. I hope it disappears like GWL. :)

[INSTG8R™]

Originally posted by The KillSmith:

The real issue for me is that my entire collection is on Steam, and that's the client I use everywhere I go. I don't use uPlay for anything, nor do I want to. 'Tis forced upon me like GWL. I hope it disappears like GWL. :)

Good luck. Ubi has Uplay, EA has Origin, it's not going to change. You want to play their games you have to use their services.

[bujablaster]

Of course it will not work on Steam. It is Uplay key. Same as Origin key will not work for the same game here at Steam or anywhere else.

If you wonder "i can buy Steam key for Uplay game, so what nonsense is this, why it isn't reversible?" - it is simple. Consider buying Steam key for Ubi game means it is just resale and you still do need activate game on Uplay, otherwise you will be not able to play it. Only difference here is that you can have such game in your Steam library, but it is still installed and activated via and on Uplay.

[swenor]

Uplay is primary DRM for Ubisoft games. Where have you been for the last couple of years? It's a basic requirement for their games.

Why would a Uplay key activate on Steam? O.O It's called a Uplay key for a reason.

Originally posted by The KillSmith:

The real issue for me is that my entire collection is on Steam, and that's the client I use everywhere I go. I don't use uPlay for anything, nor do I want to. 'Tis forced upon me like GWL. I hope it disappears like GWL. :)

Oho, another person who has no clue about marketing and doesn't use common sense.
Ubi treat Steam like distribution channel. Noones give a ♥♥♥♥ about you not liking Uplay.
You have two choices - accept Uplay (not a bad service either, unless you like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about everything) or quit playing their games. Steam is just a place where you buy games, but Uplay is primary DRM for Ubi games and that's how it is.

Both Uplay and Origin have become strong and estabilished services. They were faulty, glitchy (just like Steam was on start), but they are decent now. I would bet my life that they don't disappear. It just makes zero sense to phase them out once they bacame reliable.

[nightcabbage]

swenor, buddy... caaaaalllmm dooooowwnn. You're wound too tight.

Where have I been? Well, not playing Ubisoft games actually, which would explain why I haven't run into this question until now. They don't call it a "uPlay key" within the application, only an Activation Key.

I have a little bit of "a clue" about Marketing as I've been working in that field for 15 years, and I'd like to think I have a bit of common sense here and there at the best of times. I assumed I would get the obvious answer, but I just wanted to confirm which is why I asked. The strategy behind uPlay doesn't confuse me if that's what you're trying to insinuate, but that doesn't preclude me from having my own opinions as a consumer either... especially when I'm not forcing them down others' throats, but rather just clarifying the intent of not pursuing another method described above. I didn't make the statement that I wouldn't play any Ubisoft games because of uPlay, did I? It's like you're reacting to an entirely different post here.

It's amazing to me that people have trouble answering questions without insulting others for having asked them, especially when the question had already been answered. Thanks though?

[Mav]

Originally posted by swenor:

Uplay is primary DRM for Ubisoft games. Where have you been for the last couple of years? It's a basic requirement for their games.

Why would a Uplay key activate on Steam? O.O It's called a Uplay key for a reason.

Originally posted by The KillSmith:

The real issue for me is that my entire collection is on Steam, and that's the client I use everywhere I go. I don't use uPlay for anything, nor do I want to. 'Tis forced upon me like GWL. I hope it disappears like GWL. :)

Oho, another person who has no clue about marketing and doesn't use common sense.
Ubi treat Steam like distribution channel. Noones give a ♥♥♥♥ about you not liking Uplay.
You have two choices - accept Uplay (not a bad service either, unless you like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about everything) or quit playing their games. Steam is just a place where you buy games, but Uplay is primary DRM for Ubi games and that's how it is.

Both Uplay and Origin have become strong and estabilished services. They were faulty, glitchy (just like Steam was on start), but they are decent now. I would bet my life that they don't disappear. It just makes zero sense to phase them out once they bacame reliable.

I seriously gotta ask, why the ♥♥♥♥ are you so mad? Chill the ♥♥♥♥ out.

And in case some of you idiots didn't know, you CAN activate certain Origin games on Steam.

Don't worry OP. You can't fix rude or stupid. Just like you I also want to keep all my games in Steam unless Steam doesn't have them.

[nightcabbage]

Word.

[CursedPanther]

Originally posted by DatGrunt:

And in case some of you idiots didn't know, you CAN activate certain Origin games on Steam.

Don't think that's possible with the newer games anymore after EA has pulled away from Steam completely over a year ago.

[Nabbs1]

he is just mad he has to use Uplay

Originally posted by DatGrunt:

I seriously gotta ask, why the ♥♥♥♥ are you so mad? Chill the ♥♥♥♥ out..

[3Gundi]

Originally posted by bujablaster UR-Brotherhood:

Of course it will not work on Steam. It is Uplay key. Same as Origin key will not work for the same game here at Steam or anywhere else.

This is not true. Mass effect's and dragon age's keys from steam activated same games in origin.