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#1 MariusJS

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Posted 22 June 2014 - 01:32 PM

Ok, so if we could only have the ubisoft games on steam, right? Well, we can you might say, but the steam part is just a "link" to uPlay, and you need to enter the key that steam provided.

I recently just bought almost all the Assassins Creed games on steam (finally time to play through them, yay!) and I start entering the keys into uPlay, so I start adding the game keys, everything seems fine, then I try the DLC's none of them seems to work, I kept trying for the other games, and yay! my uPlay account got locked, so now I can't play for an hour, and ubicrap only provides support Monday to Friday  :angry:

 

Anyone else got some uPlay/Ubisoft stories?

            Except Watch Dogs, who everyone knows Ubisoft fucked up with


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Posted 22 June 2014 - 01:33 PM

Ok, so if we could only have the ubisoft games on steam, right? Well, we can you might say, but the steam part is just a "link" to uPlay, and you need to enter the key that steam provided.

I recently just bought almost all the Assassins Creed games on steam (finally time to play through them, yay!) and I start entering the keys into uPlay, so I start adding the game keys, everything seems fine, then I try the DLC's none of them seems to work, I kept trying for the other games, and yay! my uPlay account got locked, so now I can't play for an hour, and ubicrap only provides support Monday to Friday  :angry:

 

Anyone else got some uPlay/Ubisoft stories?

            Except Watch Dogs, who everyone knows Ubisoft fucked up with

I bought AC2 over a year ago and wanted to play it, but I couldn't connect to uPlay on my internet....and apparently I'm not alone on that--a lot of people have that issue. 


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Posted 22 June 2014 - 01:35 PM

I bought AC2 over a year ago and wanted to play it, but I couldn't connect to uPlay on my internet....and apparently I'm not alone on that--a lot of people have that issue. 

Yup, and that reminded me of that FC3 requires you to only not have any virutal NIC's


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Posted 22 June 2014 - 09:25 PM

I just bought Assassin's Creed IV in the steam sale, and the only problem I had was Uplay doesn't like PeerBlock, I tried to make an exception but to no avail.  The only way to get it to run is to disable PeerBlock before I start playing.  A minor issue but one that will get annoying after a while


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Posted 22 June 2014 - 10:27 PM

There are plenty more reasons Ubisoft games suck.

 

1. They are mass produced dribble in the first place.

2. The ports make them even worse.

3. Everything is serialized so far up it's own ass it's dropping sequels out of every pore.

4. The only game with soul they ever made, they called a "mistake". (Beyond Good & Evil)

5. They destroyed one of the greatest franchises ever (Heroes of Might & Magic)

6. Everyone at the top levels of the company are scum with some form of extremely sociopathic dysfunction, saying crap like "PC optimization isn't necessary" and always spending more time looking for DRM and ways to bleed more money from DLC than the base game is even worth.

7. They won't license anything that isn't complete garbage. All they license is copypasta third person shit action games engineered using market studies to make the most easily digestible unartistic Hollywood-esque teen-milking franchises. And if you present them with an idea they can't make at least two sequels from, they'll send you out the door before even explaining what it is.

8. They have always been the most aggressive at employing and developing new DRM, culminating in the customer-rape called uPlay.

 

They are everything wrong with gaming, and they are actively at war with their customers.



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Posted 22 June 2014 - 11:00 PM

My only experience with Ubisoft on PC:

 

I got Blood Dragon with an AMD GPU a while ago, needed uPlay, something I had not used before, so new account required:

 

- Would not allow the password I wanted (either too long, or special characters, cannot remember now)

- Despite entering a code for a game I own from the AMD Never Settle thing, uPlay demanded I enter credit card details

- Terms stated should I delete the game from my computer and want to redownload it X months later (IIRC it was 3-6 months) I would be charged a fee to do so.

- Took 10+ attempts to log in to the damn client

- Shortly after uPlay was hacked and i needed to reset my password

- Took 10+ attempts to reset password

- Fuck uPlay, after all the effort to get the single free game I don't bother playing it and remove their shitware from my computer

- Will eventually grab Blood Dragon in a Steam sale, all games that require uPlay can go fuck themselves - on the upside it saved me from the shitstorm that was Watchdogs, just waiting for Rayman Legends, Trials Evolution and Trials Fusion to lose uPlay requirement.

 

I've not been much of a fan of EA's Origin either, but at least they don't go out of their way to fuck me over repeatedly with a rusty blunt sword covered in starving fire ants - hey i even got a bunch of games on Origin from bundles and haven't had any of the bullshit like uPlay does, so ya, fuck you Ubisoft.



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Posted 23 June 2014 - 12:52 AM

- Will eventually grab Blood Dragon in a Steam sale, all games that require uPlay can go fuck themselves - on the upside it saved me from the shitstorm that was Watchdogs, just waiting for Rayman Legends, Trials Evolution and Trials Fusion to lose uPlay requirement.

You do know that buying Blood Dragon on steam will still use Uplay



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Posted 23 June 2014 - 01:01 AM

Ok, so if we could only have the ubisoft games on steam, right? Well, we can you might say, but the steam part is just a "link" to uPlay, and you need to enter the key that steam provided.

I recently just bought almost all the Assassins Creed games on steam (finally time to play through them, yay!) and I start entering the keys into uPlay, so I start adding the game keys, everything seems fine, then I try the DLC's none of them seems to work, I kept trying for the other games, and yay! my uPlay account got locked, so now I can't play for an hour, and ubicrap only provides support Monday to Friday  :angry:

 

Anyone else got some uPlay/Ubisoft stories?

            Except Watch Dogs, who everyone knows Ubisoft fucked up with

When added DLC codes you need to put them in the redeem codes section of the game not at the Uplay UI at the beginning.

 

I did have problems putting my code in for AC III Season Pass this weekend but it seems to be a problem with Steam, I bypassed steam and loaded up Uplay it self instead of letting Steam doing it and then put my code in that way.

 

I have had real problems with Steam codes in the past with dlc not just Ubi games either.


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