tell me about uplay and watch dogs

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norseamd

norseamd

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so watch dogs will require uplay for installing on the pc

however it is only needed to register the game at least for the steam version and then you will never need to start uplay again

the question is there any reason not to get watch dogs for any of the reasons like instability or intrusion or moral questions

what do you think

since this is about commonly argued issues that are beyond gaming and that often cause yelling and swearing this is why i put this in off topic

No, this is not about issues that are beyond gaming and it belongs in PC Gaming so I have moved it there.
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Soundmanred

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norseamd said:
so watch dogs will require uplay for installing on the pc

however it is only needed to register the game at least for the steam version and then you will never need to start uplay again

the question is there any reason not to get watch dogs for any of the reasons like instability or intrusion or moral questions

what do you think

since this is about commonly argued issues that are beyond gaming and that often cause yelling and swearing this is why i put this in off topic
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This makes no sense (no surprise there).
It belongs in PC gaming.
 
Raduque

Raduque

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I don't know how it's going to behave with Watch_Dogs, but I just recently bought Far Cry 3 on sale on steam and...

When I hit play in Steam, it launches Uplay, then I have to hit play again.
If I launch Uplay and hit play, it launches Steam.

It makes no sense. This client has no reason to exist. Why Ubisoft, WHY.
 
Hinda65

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I guess I've been lucky....Other than the horrible way it updates games, Splinter Cell i'm talking about you, I have never had a single issue with Uplay.

I will get Watch Dogs and Install/Play through Uplay without a second thought.
 
sweenish

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norseamd said:
oh shut up

suppose i was hoping for some intellectual thought on using uplay
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What intellectual thought? There is no deep, underlying philosophy here. You want to play the game enough to deal with another client, or you don't. That's it.

Personally, I've had no issues with it. Far Cry 3 and ACIII both launch Uplay when I hit play in Steam, and getting set up initiall was a tiny hassle, but outside of hitting play twice (which I think doesn't even happen beyond the first time), it stays out of your way.

One thing to note, you have to install most Ubisoft games on your C: drive.
 
gorcorps

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sweenish said:
What intellectual thought? There is no deep, underlying philosophy here. You want to play the game enough to deal with another client, or you don't. That's it.

Personally, I've had no issues with it. Far Cry 3 and ACIII both launch Uplay when I hit play in Steam, and getting set up initiall was a tiny hassle, but outside of hitting play twice (which I think doesn't even happen beyond the first time), it stays out of your way.

One thing to note, you have to install most Ubisoft games on your C: drive.
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That's not true, you just need to keep the games and Uplay on the same drive. Whatever drive that is it doesn't matter, just the same drive. Just make sure to point the UPlay folders in "settings" to the right drive, and you're good.

What pisses me off is that I USED to have Uplay installed on my C drive, and it was happy to let games reside on my game drive (the way I have steam setup too). Some time last year one of the updates to Uplay completely screwed that up and I've had to keep Uplay on my games drive ever since. It's one thing for it to be broken from the get-go, but to have it working and then taken away from you one day is infuriating. I used to be of the opinion that Uplay wasn't that bad, but the multi-drive issue pisses me off.

Anyway, if you keep everything on the same drive it seems to work okay. I haven't had any problems with it after setting it up on one drive. I don't know why people still can't wrap their mind around how Uplay games in steam behave, but it's been explained many times.
 
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yepp

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Dunno if Ubisoft will implement their 24/7 big brother style DRM into Watch Dogs for namesake. But they've stealthily implemented it into Blacklist, the game doesn't save or load while Uplay is set to offline mode, thus requires online connection to Ubisoft servers to progress through the game. No idea why the game industry hasn't caught onto this, no mention of this on the Steam store page. I've personally blacklisted future Uplay titles. If Ubisoft consider saving and loading game an online feature, they're crippling their games by design for the enduser. Something the black flaggers won't have to deal with.
 
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thedosbox

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greenhawk said:
uPlay has issues if you try to install onto a drive which is not C drive IIRC. It is a design bug/feature in uPlay and has not been addressed since it was released.
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Reading the thread can sometimes be useful:

gorcorps said:
That's not true, you just need to keep the games and Uplay on the same drive. Whatever drive that is it doesn't matter, just the same drive. Just make sure to point the UPlay folders in "settings" to the right drive, and you're good.
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HeXen

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Raduque said:
I don't know how it's going to behave with Watch_Dogs, but I just recently bought Far Cry 3 on sale on steam and...

When I hit play in Steam, it launches Uplay, then I have to hit play again.
If I launch Uplay and hit play, it launches Steam.

It makes no sense. This client has no reason to exist. Why Ubisoft, WHY.
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Just be glad it's offered as an integrated option and not exclusively a completely different client like Origin, we have enough clients to launch and segregate our libraries as it is. What I hate about Uplay is it's all clutter and spammy looking and of course is just yet another Login username and password I need just to play a game.
I'm getting this on PS4, screw the dumb crap.
 
Raduque

Raduque

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HeXen said:
Just be glad it's offered as an integrated option and not exclusively a completely different client like Origin, we have enough clients to launch and segregate our libraries as it is. What I hate about Uplay is it's all clutter and spammy looking and of course is just yet another Login username and password I need just to play a game.
I'm getting this on PS4, screw the dumb crap.
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Honestly, I wouldn't mind that as much. I just don't get the whole "launch a client to launch a client to play a game" thing Ubisoft likes to do.
 
JujuFish

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I have uPlay installed on my C drive and every uPlay game installed on a separate drive. Never had an issue, and I've been using it for years.
 
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