So,why do people hate Uplay?

I tried to play Splinter Cell Conviction online once and it just wouldn't let me. Said my CD-Key was invalid or something, I bought it on Steam and I checked online and it seems a lot of people had the same problem and Ubi just did not care.

It's not Steam

Because it give same or more problems than downloading the same game for free. And their Uplay launcher sucks.

well, let's see, i got a copy of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist Deluxe version from the nvidia promotion, redeemed it on Uplay few weeks ago. Steam already has it for preload last night, and is released today, while Uplay still doesn't have their own game release on their own client

Downloaded Far Cry 3 from it the other day due to getting it free in a GPU promotion. Once it downloaded, I then had to install it. What the hell service still downloads installers now-a-days? I then had to download a patch (1.04) that came to around 250mb. OK then, i'll download and install this then. Once that had installed, I was then prompted to download another patch (1.05) which was exactly the same size as 1.04. It kept giving me problems so I had to download it MANUALLY like back in the early 2000s.
If you click on the Win tab, you can get the High Tides DLC free, so I got it. I then had to download it MANUALLY and install it MANUALLY.
On steam, all of this is done automatically.
It really says how crap uplay is when their games, addons, and patches are easier to get and install on their competitor's client.

No UPlayGifts.

Well... I do not hate?

Too few games for it.

because it sucks.

As someone said before, hate is a strong word, but let's just focus on it.

• DRM inside DRM.
• No Offline play
• Double loading time and load on computer memory.
• Problems to activate/validade games and DLCs brough on steam.
• Problems to activate/validade games and DLCs brough on steam.
• Problems to activate/validade games and DLCs brough on steam.
• Problems to activate/validade games and DLCs brough on steam.
• Problems to activate/validade games and DLCs brough on steam.
• Problems to activate/validade games and DLCs brough on steam.
• Problems to activate/validade games and DLCs brough on steam.

Because it fucking sucks. What's not to understand?

I bought might and magic heroes VI retail and was Uplay xD its so depressing that i havent played it yet... the servers are SOOO slow... the game had a 5GB update and took forever to download... its just annoying, i thought it was going to be steam game... :(

It's poorly implimented, badly written, an unneeded extra level of DRM, takes space that could be used for other things and often has issues. Also games on Uplay tend to not bring the achievments back to steam, and I'm a steam achievement whore.

I don't hate Uplay. I simply don't accept it!
If I purchase a game on Steam, Steam is the DRM. If a company wants me to use a second DRM layer, they can keep their games. Nothing to hate here, simply ignore games that use it (and don't be a ridicoulus and say you NEED to play this games). Same more or less with Origin. The only thing I hate are people who would accept everything, even a gun pointed at their back of the head while playing games as copyright protection as long as they can play Farcry 4, Battlefield 5...

It was originally ALWAYS ONLINE
Something which Origin, Steam AND GFWL have never been, they've always had the option of offline.
It debuted with Assassin's Creed 2 and was horrendously draconian with it's always online enforcement to the point that if you temporarily lost connection that gameplay session was essentially wasted because you lost the ability to save.
So that automatically made it the worst in the past, and the worst BY FAR.

And now it's just the annoyance of having yet again another stupid digital service to deal with.

But yeah, this idea of rewarding gameplay with additional content it employs is indeed really nice and would be great to see on the other services.

While I can buy the games on steam and Ubisoft don't make them uplay exclusive, I don't give a fuck.

If you want some specific examples: one could activate Assassin's Creed Brotherhood using its DLC code and the game would register itself, however after that multiplayer became disabled due to the key failing to validate, and you couldn't activate the actual game key after you registered it with a DLC code as it would say the game has already been activated. And in order to deactivate that key Ubisoft had to do a global server reset thus requiring everyone to reactivate their game, so it took them a few months and a lot of complaints to actually decide to use that method.

I love uplay & of course encourage more publishers and even developers to create their own networks as well

Its a bit of a farce. They seem to always have issues with big launches. AC3, Far Cry 3, and yesterday with Splinter Cell Blacklist (which they fixed quickly). Other than that I definitely prefer it to Origin. The Uplay overlay is complete balls too. I just add the .exe to Steam anyway no matter what Im using so I can use the overlay and screenshot ability. I got Blacklist on ST cheap for Uplay so I couldnt pass it up.

The downloading of a game and then having to install is the most annoying part though.

Two reasons for me personally, I don't speak for anyone else. Christmas 2012, playing Far Cry 3. Press ESC to check settings, save, anything like that lead to "Connecting to uPlay" which took ages or failed completely. Other reason I'm pretty sure they got hacked awhile ago.

I cant change my profile name like steam :(

Just stuck with UplayID

Better than origin? Just NO. You can't even use it properly to download games you previously played on your account since there is no redeem key feature. I have World in Conflict and it is utterly useless to me since I got only key that I can't activate anywhere to download it from their program.

I like uPlay, on consoles at least. Never tried it on PC except for when I launch Trials Evolution. I like how you can earn points by unlocking the specific achievements on a specific Ubisoft game and use them on in-game stuff and dashboard themes.

1. A few weeks ago there was an attack on their servers, since then during every login attempt they've prompted me to change the password. NEVER worked (tried like 10 times). I always get Error page doesn't exist crap, no matter if it's Firefox, Opera, IE. Once I even spent 10 mins writing a ticket, after clicking Send I obviously got another error. Well I don't care about it anymore.
2. Another thing as some people have already mentioned - online DRM. You lost connection? don't worry just no save for you.
3. Also mentioned, quite often there is a problem with acknowledging your achievements and rewards.
4. Out of my 6 downloads 4 were corrupted and I had to redownload parts of them.

On the other hand there are some upsides (but nowhere near to even pararell the downsides).

1. Starts quickly and is light.
2. Interesting reward system.

I like uplay,never had any problems with it.
Btw uplay is better than origin :D