Uplay - good, bad or dangerous?

Bad, as it's forced. I would have no problem with it if it was optional. Steam and Origin are also bad for this, but the trade off with Steam is that it's at least better designed and managed.
 
It works fine for me. Have about 10 games on it either from codes or that I've bought.

As an aside I do wish Valve had taken a far tougher stance on other gaming clients and secondary app stores to begin with, and at least with EA they are clear that if you want to play their games you must buy and download from them. It's messy and introduces issues where the games don't plug into the Steam store and recognise you already own DLC.

But I guess the truth is PC gaming is fragmented and virtually everyone has their own store front, client and DRM these days.
 
UPlay is much better now that it was at first, it just sits there and launches games and is pretty inobtrusive these days.

I like Steam but I am happy to buy games on Origin/UPlay, because I don't believe the domination of Valve is good for the industry. It's like mobile gaming now, your success is more predicated on your ability to tap up contacts at Apple to get on their storefront than it is the quality of your game.
 
Steveocee said:
uplay is fine. I find it no different to Origin. Just a stupid platform that won't bow down and submit to Steam the "real" go to gaming platform for PC.
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steam has gone well down hill though. :o
at times crappy dl speeds, random drops of connection,...
 
Seanspeed said:
One thing I like about Uplay is that it actually makes achievements useful, where you can spend points on tangible in-game items and whatnot.
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This! I like that it rewards loyalty - e.g. I can complete a load of achievements in Assassin's Creed, and use the points to unlock things in FarCry

Other than that, I'm not fussed, it launches games, does the job!
 
Seanspeed said:
One thing I like about Uplay is that it actually makes achievements useful, where you can spend points on tangible in-game items and whatnot.
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+1

I was chuffed when I discovered that my account had saved up all the Uplay points I earned from my Ubisoft Xbox 360 games and was able to spend it on the PC version of Rainbow Six: Siege skins and perks.
 
The only problem I've had with Uplay is how it handles cloud saves. It has a history of keeping your only game save in the cloud, deleting the old save. The problem comes is Uplay is offline/unavailable when you start a game. The game then can't use the cloud save (not available) so it assumes you are starting a new game. This new game will replace your old cloud save as soon as uplay comes back up. Lots of people have lost saves and progress to this madness in the past.
 
Uplay is now one of my favorite game clients after Steam. Probably on par with Steam bar the lack of readily available games to buy. I've never experienced any issues logging in or playing/buying games.

Origin is my least favorite due to the inability to play games if you're not online.
 
Haggisman said:
This! I like that it rewards loyalty - e.g. I can complete a load of achievements in Assassin's Creed, and use the points to unlock things in FarCry

Other than that, I'm not fussed, it launches games, does the job!
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This. I don't get involved in stupid little crusades against companies or whatnot. It's a perfectly good client.
 
It's fine- it does what you want it do to with minimal frustration. Origin is fine too now as well. I hope we're moving past thing "I hate this client because it's EA /UBI so I'm going to throw all my toys out the pram and not use it, and therefore miss out on some good games"
 
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