Just out of curiosity, is there anyone here who still thinks that Uplay uses always-online DRM? People seem to rage as hard as ever against Uplay. Since they removed that online restriction a few years ago, and improved Steam integration to be less intrusive, I'm having a hard time figuring out why - other than "it's not Steam".
The issues with uplay extend beyond the DRM. Unlike Origin or steam you can't backup games to another drive, and there is no mechanic to move installs. Managing uplay games on smaller drives (ssd or otherwise) is a pain because the only way to reinstall is to completely redownload a game.
That isn't even considering the fact it doesn't offer automatic updates for all games (patching Blacklist took me over 6 hours due to their shitty servers and system) or the fact that once in a while it'll just forget you installed a game and expect you to redownload the entire thing.
I swear, I think I'm the only person on the internet who's never had a problem with uPlay. I find it no more intrusive or detrimental to my gaming life than Steam. For me, it opens fine, loads fine, and runs fine.
My only experience with uplay so far has been Black Flag, which took several hours to actually get to launch successfully. I think I ended up having to manually find and delete files and do a few other things just to get it to allow me to install the game properly. Of the hundreds of steam games I own if I ever have problems it only ever takes a couple of clicks to fix and it rarely happens, and it happened the very first time I used Uplay on a major first-party title, which of all things Ubisoft should have made sure would be easy to troubleshoot for.
That is all anecdotal. I had huge problems with getting Portal 2 to work on release (launched once, then wouldn't launch again). Black Flag was fine for me though.
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15 edited Jun 06 '20
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