Gotto love DRM that punishes the people who actually purchase games :')

Of course they suck, troll companies gonna troll.

I also doesn't like uplay. I must wait more time to game load...Loading uplay...update...logging...launch.

Yeah, I know that feeling, My brother and me stopped playing splinter cell: conviction after the problems we had (deleted savegames, uplay crashes and being unable to join the match).

Yeah, I've never even used Uplay but, even before Uplay, Ubisoft has had a record of being very shitty. If I can help it, I never even play their games anymore, there's just usually too much added bullshit with DRM and stuff.

So, yes, I agree, Ubisoft sucks, and I hate them too.

Still can't launch Anno 2070 because of this crap

I was lucky when activated my Assassins Creed 3 on Uplay without problems, seems there were A LOT of problems some time before I did it :D, but yes Uplay sucks.

I hate to be rude, but it serves you right for owning a uplay game. Sane gamers have been sounding warnings about DRM for years.

each time I lauch farcry 3 it strucks me how much this uplay shit is bad :o

I hate the uplay drm, but I like ubisoft's games

Nothing about Uplay makes sense, anyway. They make you download the game outside of the system, even though it is supposed to be a game manager. Somehow the system can patch your game, though. Oh yeah, but of course if you want to add some of the DLC you have to do it outside of the system again, at least for some of the stuff.

Then they market games that don't even work within Uplay. Ghost Recon Online is all over the place in Uplay, yet doesn't actually use Uplay. I downloaded it around Christmas and it ended up not being able to use it in Uplay, at all. Then, they had an ad linking to some Christmas stuff they were doing, so I clicked on it and it brought me to the British version of it, even though I live in NY and have no connections to GB, at all. I wrote them three separate tickets asking why nothing is working for me, until one of them pointed out that I was trying to use the British site. The client still links me there and there is no way for me to change it.

The worst thing. They don't run their own store, Digital River does. They can't do anything for you, at all. They say we have no power and Digital River isn't going to help you. I have asked all sorts of normal store related questions and every time they are like sorry, we don't run the store, but we provide tech support for it. Ok... So you help people with a store that you have no control over whatsoever. This reminds me of the BBB for some reason. Completely powerless, but still exist for no apparent reason.

So yeah, add me to the I wish Uplay would go away club because it is absolutely horrible. The only halfway decent feature it has is that you can earn extra stuff for playing games through it. That is kind of cool, though most of the stuff should have been in the game in the first place.

Uplay ddoes suck alot. Make playing LOOD of awful @_@

Is it me or ppl are "insert_random_word_for_opposite_of_smart" ? They will bash uplay for a whole week here and then go buy next Ubisoft game when its released?

These ppl are the crying guy from EA in a Nutshel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LE0ycgkBQ

me too i'm avoiding all their games from uplay they really brought me only pain...

uplay is like a twitter client with a shitload of advertisements and sometimes you can start a game with it.

And where did you purchase this so-called 'legal' key from???
ps: That's a O not a 0 in your key generator you blind wombat!

... I don't see what people's problems are with uPlay, I've not had a problem with uPlay. I'll grant you that it isn't very well built, but I've used worse (looking at you GFWL... )

I also don't see the problem with Origin, but then again, I only ever used it for about 1 hour when BF 1942 was free. Wasn't a fan of bf 1942, uninstalled it and Origin.

As for your problem, looks like you are going to need to send of a few sharp, but polite e-mails.

meh Uplay is fine

Uplay is okay for me. I don't like that to start AC3/AC2/FC3, I have to open another program, but it gives some benefits I guess. Like some of those "rewards" they give, with Uplay points you get from playing the game itself. Recently, for some reason, all the "rewards" for AC3 turned to 0 points ea for me. I clicked Redeem on all of them...lolz Running around in Ezio's costume in America...

'Murica

Make a shortcut to the game exe and add this to target: -uplay steam mode

I don't know how to properly format with these weird shits. Use underscore between the above words (_)

Reminds me of Far Cry 3 took me 2 days and 3 complete downloads of the game to get it running through Steam.

Fuck Uplay indeed, even with GFWL I 'only' had to waste 3 hours before I got Bioshock 2 running :p

If you own the game with a steam installer, it will only work via Steam and not directly in uplay. This is kind of sucky, but I guess it works.

Uplay is a spectacularly clunky piece of corpulent bloatware, and universally awful.

I just loaded it up to remind myself which games I owned on there, and idly checked out the "shop" page. What an unmitigated pile of mouldering dog-eggs. Check out the screenshot. The entire Store page is plastered with inviting "ADD TO CART" buttons, but nowhere on the entire sorry Space-shuttle-crash of a screen is there one single fornicating price.

Yes, I have learnt to hate Uplay with a smouldering passion. Its only good feature is that it doesn't contemptuously treat my private files like public library books, with an EULA asserting its right to circulate them amongst as many of its "third party" mates as it sees fit, unlike certain other distribution platforms I could name...

I hate Valve. They want all my money.

I don't have any games that require Uplay (only the first two AssCreeds come to mind, and both of them are non-Steam), and if I have, then I haven't started them once since Uplay launched, so there was no need for me to download and install the client. Reading the horror stories in this thread, I hope it stays that way.