Did Uplay/Origin requirement ever stopped you from buying a game?

[naruball]

Captain_Yuri said:

naruball said:

Captain_Yuri said:
Yes, virtually every game after bf4 I skipped from buying due to origin and pretty much every game I skipped from buying due to Uplay... Uplay is by far the worst DRM that I have came across... Its just so bad

Care to explain why? I just installed it today and after reading this, I'm considering removing it.

I bought the entire Might and Magic franchise for $15 and the only way to redeem the keys was through uplay and steam.

Quite a while ago, I bought a game called HawX and it was an arcade flight sim and it was kinda fun, at least fun enough for me to buy the sequel. So when I bought the sequel at launch, it had Uplay installed and oh look, I couldnt get it to play for 2 weeks... $60 game... Can't get it to play for 2 weeks cause their servers sucked... And even after that, I still couldn't get it to work all the time. Plus it required me to be always online even for the single player mode and when I went offline for like a second cause my wifi back then had a hiccup, bam disconnected, kicked from the game and lost my save progress.... Fuck that shit

That sounds terrible. How they can get away with something like that is beyond me. A few years ago, when I had it installed on my PC (I now have a semi-decent laptop) and wanted to play Heroes of Might and Magic 6, I'd get disconnected in the middle of a long battle and lose all my progress. The only difference was, there was an offline mode, but you didn't get some really strong items that could help you with the game. So despite being constantly infuriated, like a person stuck in an abusive relationship I'd go back to online mode and risk losing my progress again.

Le sigh...

But anyway, thanks for replying. I'll try to make sure there is an offline for the games I bought before trying to play them.