Ubisoft Launches Uplay PC Distribution & Social Platform

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Move over Steam and Origin: here comes Uplay PC from Ubisoft with loads of discounts in tow.

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  • shin0bi272
    so wait if they arent dropping their steam support... why do we need this?
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  • tomfreak
    Just checked, good news, I login their web with my Uplay login and I have my steam ubisoft game there. Hopefully can by pass the steam DRM. *(update, see post below, it wont allow me to download my steam ubisoft game, so F* them)

    Buying ubisoft game in steam = Use steam + Uplay to play = which sucks more than just Uplay alone.
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  • Steelwing
    I'm not touching Ubisoft anything with a 10-foot pole.
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  • bustapr
    that 1euro game deals are very good. But I cant help but feel like they shouldnt be on the USA part of the website -.- ubisoft trying to lure unsuspecting gamers into its service with some false advertising?
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  • MAC_HATER
    getting real sick of yer sh*t PC games industry - i now count at least 6-8 separate proprietary content delivery systems that are choked down with DRM interfering with the experience - if this crap keeps up im going to have to just buy the games, stash them in a cupboard without even opening them, and download the cracked version thats stripped of the parent handler application and DRM just to avoid having to stuff around with this nonsense!
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  • fenixkane
    As long as Steam support isn't cut, there isn't an issue for them or any other customers, and this does make sense from a business standpoint.
    It gives them a direct outlet to sell to gamers that does not have any middleman, meaning they get 100% of the profits per purchase. If, for some reason, a player really wanted to make sure Ubisoft gets 100% of the money from their purchase, they now have an outlet to do that.
    That said, I'll still be buying my games off of Steam. Also I wont buy anything with extremely restrictive DRM, which Ubisoft has up the nose, so I wont be buying their games regardless. (And yes, while Steam itself is a form of DRM, it doesn't hinder me from doing much, and I get a ton of services and other benefits to counter-balance it)
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  • tomfreak
    Update, F* them. They are worst than Origin. I just installed Uplay, and my steam Ubisoft game that require Uplay to launch isnt there.

    Dont bother using it until they allow steam user to download the game there.
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  • alidan
    who would get a ubisoft game on the pc?
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  • I'm afraid that every publisher now is going to make their own digital distribution platform, eventually leading to a "walled garden" approach to distributing of their new titles. EA did this with Crysis 2 under the guise of a contract dispute with Steam shortly after Origin opened and then didn't bother hiding their intentions with Battlefield 3 nor Mass Effect 3 (both of which I still do not own). Hopefully, Ubisoft doesn't follow EA's example.
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  • Cons29
    to be honest, i like several of their games, but with the issues i've been reading i wont buy any of those unless it is a very very good game. but with my back log of games, they won't get anything from me anytime soon
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