What a pitty about Ubisoft Connect

[Oh shit, he]

For if it were not for the second game launcher and account, I'd definitely consider FarCry 5 @ ~AU$10.

Oh well.

[SteahmChip]

Its a great game, just bite bullet, create account and get it off of UBISOFT

[Oh shit, he]

You know what, I;ll prolly be able to pick it up for Xbox One, cheers!

[SteahmChip]

I must add quickly though with the RESISTANCE mod one can even get tremendously much more enjoyment out of FC 5, I do not know if it wlll work on XBOX

UBISOFT in and of itself is similar to Steam and if a game requires two launchers on Steam, Ill forgo Steam (heresy) and just get it on the "home" launcher to avoid cross launcher issues. UBI has frequent sales as well.

[-=SOF=-WID99]

Originally posted by SteahmChip:

I must add quickly though with the RESISTANCE mod one can even get tremendously much more enjoyment out of FC 5, I do not know if it wlll work on XBOX

UBISOFT in and of itself is similar to Steam and if a game requires two launchers on Steam, Ill forgo Steam (heresy) and just get it on the "home" launcher to avoid cross launcher issues. UBI has frequent sales as well.

its also on sale in the ubi connect app and ubi store currently for $9 us dollar /standard edition
$13.50 for gold Edition

yes steam may be cheaper right now .. but you have to deal with 2 launchers if you buy on STEAM

no matter what the game will always require UBI connect as that's the way the servers are set up for connection for co op and MP on custom maps

steam / valve does not own ....or control those servers for connection .. UBISOFT DOES

so suck it up...UBI connect will always be part of this game

there are literary tons of great custom maps out for FAR CRY 5 as well as good mods

unless steam buys the rights to FAR CRY games from UBISOFT ..which will never happen..yes you have to install and register a ubisoft connect account .. mine goes back over 13 years and i never had a problem with it

ALWAYS write down the e mail address you use and the password you create

if you need to change e mails address ?? .... do so by contacting ubi support

see

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/account/article/recovering-access-to-your-ubisoft-account/000063351


STEAM WORKS THE EXACT SAME WAY

your games are registered to your e mail address and password to the account that you use to activate them on

WRITE IT DOWN ALWAYS ...and save it to a safe place ..do not share those details with any site or any one... and use a small book or , even a sheet of paper inside your PC case will do

and yes your always better off buying the game directly from the maker of the game .. and not having to use a second launcher .. like STEAM is in this case with all FAR CRY GAMES

[Oh shit, he]

No. I have a Ubisoft account, I;ve had it since UPlay was a thing!
I don't like it, It's in my view unnecessary, at this point in time, Far Cry 5 would be the very single PC game that I play, from Ubisoft on PC. Just like Rockstar games launcher, EA Games launcher, Ubisoft Connect is another piece of bloatware on my PC from yet more developers who's code I need to trust.


Am I a steam purist? Defiantly not. I also use GoG & Epic Games Launcher on my PC.
Why? These are direct competitors to steam who offer the games industry and I value in opening the market place. This is a contrast to being a ploy by a publisher to maximise profits through first party platform sales. By all means, encourage first party sales! But if I get this game on steam, there is negative value added by having me use another launcher AND another account. e.g, increased resource use, greater cyber threat surface, another terms, conditions and privacy policy not only to read, but to keep up to date with.


Their executive staff do not even hold the view I should be able to own games that I purchase.... How petty can you be?

I do appreciate the time you've taken to express some good arguments, Far Cry 5 certainly sounds like a good experience, especially with modding ability. As it turns 10 in 4 years time, I am forced to wonder though, will I lose access to it such as when the Crew celebrated it's 10 year anniversary?
I know the Crew appears to so far be a stand-alone case though, I cannot put any more money towards this methodology of business. I will not give them the oxygen to erode the rights and basic luxuries that have enabled people such as myself to get into PC gaming.
Imagine if your work software was tied to a subscription only model?... Oh wait, Adobe...

Ubisoft have been here for a fair many years and developed some title's I've really enjoyed over the years: Watch Dogs, Far Cry 1 -> 3, Tom Clancy series. They could almost be considered a games industry heavery weight If it were not for the reputation they have garnered. A reputation that sits them next to EA games, un-polished AAA releases, forced platform pivoting, excessive DRM.

I kind of feel alone in all this passion of my argument but I see it as a necessary cause. There is no reason, in my view to bend our backsides to wards companies such as Ubisoft and say here, take me, who ever wanted to re-visit a game 10, 20, 30 years after it launched?.
*sigh*

[-=SOF=-WID99]

really?? ..What part of VALVE / steam does not own the title are you not understanding ???

also you DO NOT own ANY games .. its been that way for decades ..you only purchase a licence for ANY AN ALL SOFTWARE ..see your steam subscriber agreement for F*cks sake

AGAIN ..

you don't OWN ANY GAMES ..unless you are the developer of the game

you are only buying a licence to install it ........and play it
and you must abide by the EULA

the END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT to install it


even WINDOWS works the same damn way FFS ...

look kid
i am 61 years old and yes , even old dos games had an EULA you had to agree to

to install a product ..even old commodore vic 20 games did ................. and old DOS games

you do not OWN GAMES

you buy a licence to play them while they are available


.....
personally i don't care if you buy it or not but you are basically being silly for not buying a game that you already admit you have an account set up for ON their =service >??

SO fine don't buy it ..no one here cares ..and i'm pretty certain no one at ubisoft cares ....as FC 5 was one of the best selling games of the series

really they don't need your 6 or 7 bucks

your loss not mine ..i got to play it a year before it even shipped at E 3 in 2017 ...and i yep enjoyed it.. and still am on more than one PC

but what ever bring the crew up................


a game that had zero players after a few years and was a MP only game ...so yea they shut down empty servers ??

they also shut down empty far cry 3 servers ..

its not worth paying for servers for a game that no one was playing anymore.. counts were under 200 ppl for gods sake per day

whatever man your loss ..not mine

[Oh shit, he]

It's our loss brother, not mine. Why should we accept regressions is service? Duh, Valve does not own the IP to FarCry, neither does it to Bohemia Interactive's games, I still don't need an additional account or game delivery platform for those. Better still, I can play the majority of my steam games offline after I launch em once with the internet connected! I'd say that's damn acceptable DRM.


When I mention ownership of games, of course we don't 'own' the games, but the licenses generally provide us the ability to play games indefinitely. Alan Wake, when it was pulled from the steam store for licensing issues, the publisher was unable to sell it, players who already had the game in library were able to install & play it still!

The Crew, multiplayer only? Sure you had to connect to a server to play, there were however single player and co-op opportunities. Why not spend some resources enabling an ability to play offline, setup unofficial dedicated servers and or the like?

At the end of the day, on the whim of corporations such as Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar, we can see the cultural and technological happenings of our time dissapear for the generations ahead.


Should we accept that when modern Call Of Duty's reach end of life, their campaigns become unplayable because it can't reach the Activision activation server cause it don't exist no more? I mean, as I understand it you are unable to launch the MW2 & BO6 campaigns without an active internet connection. Not just for the first time you launch the games, for every time you launch the game.

I think to the future with all of this. In the year 2050, how many big titles will university lecturers be able to reference, study and teach with from our era? What lessons in design and success/failure will we lose to the short term, ruthless pursuit of profit?

The peeps at Ubisoft might not care about video game culture or history, but I do. Being amongst the first of the public to enjoy FC5, it sure as hell sounds as though you do to.

[Unfit]

I removed this game and all games from Ubisoft from my wishlist. If they think I am okay with their sentiment that I will own nothing be happy; they dead wrong. Nothing can make me happy you stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I'll pirate your games, but out of pure spite I won't even play them.

[geekguy]

So sick of the launcher wars.... Half my games now don't work, and I paid these guys. It's like if you bought a car, and they moved the engine out of it on you and then ask for you to pay again. Such BS.

[Playr0ne]

yeah, dont buying games from ubisoft many years only because this

It's unreliable to give money for a game that is tightly tied to a third-party launcher, whose owners also believe that it's okay to take games away from players.