Ubisoft enters digital distribution arena with Uplay PC
Origin, Steam, and GameFly just got some more competition. Ubisoft is also throwing its hat into the digital distribution arena with Uplay PC.
Origin, Steam, and GameFly just got some more competition. Ubisoft is also throwing its hat into the digital distribution arena with Uplay PC.
Uplay PC is an extension of the French publisher's cross-game rewards system. Beginning with Assassin's Creed 2 in 2009, many Ubisoft games have allowed gamers to log into a persistent Uplay ID to unlock additional rewards in-game. The service has since expanded to Facebook and free-to-play games.
Uplay has already amassed 35 million members across various games and platforms. With the launch of Uplay PC, the company is replacing individual game launchers, and will let gamers access all their Uplay-enabled PC games from one place. In addition, the new launcher will include a digital distribution service that allows the direct purchase and download of PC games.
To celebrate the launch of the new service, Uplay PC is running a sale. Hawx 2, From Dust, Silent Hunter 5, and Driver San Francisco will all be available for $1 each, with each title rotated on a daily basis. Other games in Ubisoft's catalog will be discounted up to 75%.
When EA launched Origin, many of the publisher's titles ended up getting pulled from Steam. It appears that Ubisoft's library has remained intact (for now). Shacknews has contacted Ubisoft to see if it intends on expanding the catalog to third-party games, much like EA has with Origin. The publisher responded by saying "as of right now, nothing has been announced."
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Origin, Steam, and GameFly just got some more competition. Ubisoft is also throwing its hat into the digital distribution arena with Uplay PC.-
I'm sure they won't completely fuck this up and make a hatable abortion with no redeeming qualities like every other time they have tried to do things like this. I feel good, this is the one that will work.
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Call me when they turn it into Steam.
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booooo, while competition is healthy, I'd rather just see a steam monopoly. Actually I wont care at all as long as all titles are still avaliable elsewhere.
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ummm from the company that recently had their addon hacked ??? no thanks...
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Ubisoft, you have proven over the past half decade that you don't care about pc ports and continously shit out the worst ports imaginable on the PC. Why the hell do you expect PC gamers to glom on to this?
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You never know, might great/terrible. Ubisoft pretty much set the bar for shitty restrictive DRM after all.
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Even PC pirates won't buy $1 games, so why try Ubisoft?
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Speaking of fucking UPlay, let's fucking talk about it. So there I was last night wanting to play some Silent Hunter 5 again. I figured there's been enough time since it came out that the incredibly shitty experience I had back then of it constantly losing connection and trying to stop me from playing four or five times in a half hour was probably gone.
So I reinstall it off Steam and log into my uplay account and it asks for my cd key. I put it in and it bitches that the key's already been used. NO FUCKING SHIT, SHERLOCK! I played the game when it fucking came out.
So I log into the UPlay website on my browser and look at the games I own. Not only did UPlay decide to eat my Silent Hunter 5 copy, it also chose to forget that I bought Anno 2070. The only games it remembers me having owned are Assassin's Creed games.
What in the fuck?!
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Hey guys, isn't GAMESTOP's Impulse in the competition?
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anyone that already has uplay, have you noticed its need to sync your game saves has gotten slower and slower over time. It sometimes takes up to 10 minutes just so I can launch the game. If you want to do this fine, but atleast have the hardware at your end capable of taking all these requests!!
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This just in, not only does Ubisoft require a constant internet connection to play single player games, but it also requires insertion of a rectal probe to authenticate that the user is the legitimate purchaser of their products to enable saving of games.
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That should be perfect for steam fans.
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Yeah, this is more like a pathetic attempt to catch up. No way in hell it amounts to anything.
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I signed up for Uplay on my 360 for Driver. Is that account connected to this somehow?
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I've only had issues with Uplay once, hasn't been too bad for me. I don't think this would stop me from buying AssCreed 3 on PC. AssCreed series are pretty great on the PC, they're not straight console ports (have tons of graphical options, etc).
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I'm so relieved. I mean, I've been starting to get tired of gaming in general. Too many good games coming out, and yet they all seem like they are missing something. I've found myself wishing the industry would just invest a lot of their working capital in something a little different to bring the spice back. Something that hasn't been done over and over. And now we have the perfect answer: another digital distribution service. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K21eROBSNmM/TyYi7JTQ3II/AAAAAAAAAwA/9zD4DWlU14Y/s1600/citizen+kane+clapping.gif
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