UPLAY / Steam and Far Cry 3 / Assassin's Creed 3

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So I wanted to play the games on day of release and they weren't available on Steam for whatever reason, I decided to buy them via Uplay for a slightly higher price.

Now both of these games are available on Steam to buy for less than what they are on Uplay.

Has anyone else done this and also feel a little bit cheated by Ubisoft?
 
Well if you buy them on Steam, you have no overlay, no gametracking and your status to your friends won't display in-game while playing AC3/FC3. However, adding a Non-Steam Game shortcut to the Uplay version of AC3 & FC3 will give you an overlay and a status.

Far from cheated, you lucked out, I feel for those who bought it on Steam.
 
Thesnipergecko said:
I'm one of "those" people who likes all his games in one place, hate the likes of Origin and Uplay are being forced upon us.
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Yet you'd happily have Steam forced on everyone. There used to be this time where, you know, I'd want to play a game, then I'd play a game, then I'd be playing a game, and everything else means **** all to me.

Steam "fan boys" seem to me people who hate change, the guys who hated leaving Win XP, etc, etc, it was there, I use it therefore everything thats different I hate for no real reason, despite offering the same service, buying, downloading and playing games. Origin, Steam, Uplay all achieve this, beyond that, who the **** cares, honestly?

Either way, vouchers, thats the difference between Uplay, Origin, and Steam. Steam + new game + decent price = impossible. Origin + pre-order = anything from 5-50% off depending on when you get it. Crysis 2 was £20-30 in the shops, a crapload of people got it for £15 off Origin, no where else was cheaper. Far Cry 3, Uplay + special edition having £5 off, + £10 voucher that was widely advertised meant the cheapest deluxe edition available.

Currently the deluxe edition is £35 on steam, the normal £30 and I got the deluxe edition on Uplay for £25. Assassins Creed 3 basic edition is £30 on steam, I got the special edition version on Greenman for £24.50, I saved £14.50, with a few extra's and had them available on launch, and both have Uplay extra's. So is Steam better and cheaper, no, Steam is ALWAYS more expensive, the only time its ever "cheap" is buying keys through other places or getting something literally 6 months + after release.

Origin has by far the best deals for pre-order games, but they do them pretty randomly, good deals around xmas, if you go looking 2 weeks before a game release they'll probably have some kinda voucher, 50% off like for Crysis 2 was almost a year in advance. Uplay/Ubisoft are starting to catch on to Origin's vouchers/early deals and value.

Steam is using its own users reluctance to click a different button to always charge more.

The better Origin, Uplay, and anything else do, the less Steam will continue to rip everyone off, the cheaper Steam gets, the cheaper Origin/Uplay get as well.
 
I think for me it's the case that each of these clients require system resources - not many, maybe, but still enough when you're trying to optimise performance.

Having already got Steam, as it got there first with a truely effective system, the fewer additional clients I have to install the better.
 
You only need to run one of the clients at any one time (given that you'll only be playing one game). Ironically Steam is by far the worst for resources in my experience (disk thrashing and inability to exert much control over downloads).
 
Uplay isn't so bad. It loads up fine and I've been using it recently to replay through AC2/ACB and now on the disaster that is AC3. uPlay has behaved itself very well in terms of stability and doesn't pester you for updates like Steam would.

I too would like my games in the same area but we can't always win regarding that.
 
Thesnipergecko said:
Has anyone else done this and also feel a little bit cheated by Ubisoft?
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Nope, I got it for £7 before the release. But it's amusing to see that you're one of those sillies that buy games on release at full price and then get SO surprised that the games are available cheaper elsewhere and drop in price by half within a month.

You brought it upon yourself, should have done a little research first. Far Cry 3 was available on Steam from the beginning, it just wasn't on Steam UK (along with AC3), but everyone knew they would eventually show up on Steam anyway. Not that it matters when you can have the same game for half the price in retail...
 
Kainz said:
Uplay isn't so bad. It loads up fine and I've been using it recently to replay through AC2/ACB and now on the disaster that is AC3. uPlay has behaved itself very well in terms of stability and doesn't pester you for updates like Steam would.

I too would like my games in the same area but we can't always win regarding that.
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I lost all my Far Cry 3 saves two days ago and there doesn't seem to be a way to bring them back. Splinter Cell Conviction is still not showing in my games' list, even though it was added to another account.

The game takes triple time to load with Uplay loading its stuff in the foreground.

Yes, Uplay is bad, and the DRM is horrible. But it's a necessary evil in some cases.
 
Its annoying that we can't just have all our games on one client but almost all of mine are on Steam. My free Assassin's Creed 3 code with a GTX comes on UPlay only but I can't really complain because its free. Not bought Far Cry 3 yet but will get it on Steam soon.

The last time I used UPlay for Anno it took a whole day for their support to fix the servers because nobody could activate their game. Hopefully that wont happen again.
 
It bothers me more that AC3 is getting FIVE DLC packs within SIX months of release that Ubisoft want an additional £20 for.

For that reason i'll wait for it to come up in a sale, **** the greedy ****s.
 
I dont mind my games being on Uplay/Steam/Origin, or anyother for that matter, it's only a few clicks away, all this "I want my games in one place" yea thats great but you can only play one game at a time so load up Uplay/Steam/Origin, When youre finished close it down then play a new game, it only takes a few seconds no real heartache. Tbh it's no different from having to change disks over when you want to play a different game like in the old days or console gaming.
 
Tute said:
It bothers me more that AC3 is getting FIVE DLC packs within SIX months of release that Ubisoft want an additional £20 for.

For that reason i'll wait for it to come up in a sale, **** the greedy ****s.
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I bought the season pass for this and the first DLC1 wont even download, there is uproar on the forums about it and ubisoft havn't even bothered to reply to the error.
 
Omaeka said:
Well if you buy them on Steam, you have no overlay, no gametracking and your status to your friends won't display in-game while playing AC3/FC3. However, adding a Non-Steam Game shortcut to the Uplay version of AC3 & FC3 will give you an overlay and a status.

Far from cheated, you lucked out, I feel for those who bought it on Steam.
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The Uplay stuff should till be with the Steam variant should it not?
 
Spook187 said:
I bought the season pass for this and the first DLC1 wont even download, there is uproar on the forums about it and ubisoft havn't even bothered to reply to the error.
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Can't say i'm surprised as nobody seems to give a **** about PC these days, my stab at the DLC was more about the fact that Ubi seem to expect £50 for the full game, or £30 for one with some of the missions missing.

The cheek of it, this isn't a console game, £50 is out of order tbh.
 
Martini1991 said:
The Uplay stuff should till be with the Steam variant should it not?
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Yeah, and it disables all Steam features for some reason, whereas a Uplay version added as a Non-Steam shortcut will have them all. So if you buy the Steam version and want the features, you'll have to run it as a Non-Steam I think and have two of the same game in your list, whereas Uplay you just drop it in as a Non-Steam shortcut and away you go.

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Neither version will give you game tracking.
 
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umboma said:
I dont mind my games being on Uplay/Steam/Origin, or anyother for that matter, it's only a few clicks away, all this "I want my games in one place" yea thats great but you can only play one game at a time so load up Uplay/Steam/Origin, When youre finished close it down then play a new game, it only takes a few seconds no real heartache. Tbh it's no different from having to change disks over when you want to play a different game like in the old days or console gaming.
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+1
If people are so obsessed, you can always add all your games to the Steam software and push go from there. They still launch from the original client though.
 
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