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Zkuq on 06 November 2017
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Chazore said:
Zkuq said:

Yeah, that's pretty bad. That's why I don't really buy almost any of Ubisoft's titles on PC. I think I've grabbed a couple of Ubisoft's Humble Bundles, but that's it. It's a shame, because Ubisoft makes some pretty interesting games.

I would honestly bother buying Ubi's titles if they:

1) Made superb PC port jobs, I'm talking absolutely stellar cream of the crop quality and not botched jobs, downgrades and 4 layers of DRM attached, all while asking double the price.

2)Made their store on the level of Steam in terms of features and library selection, not just a few AAA games that EA lazily adds to their store as well. 

3) No actual need to attach Uplay to their games being sold on Steam. This is a massive gripe of mine, because buying one of their games from Steam, downloading it and then you launch it, only to be told that you'll also need Uplay, effectively adding a second layer of DRM. No other publisher I know of does this when selling their games on Steam.

4) Hold really good sales, and I mean old Steam sale level of sales on the majority of what they have within their store. if they want me to buy, they have to entice me.

 

I'd love for at least 3-4 of those points to be taken up by Ubisoft, but I haven't seen them trying for any of those points over the past decade. They seem perfectly content with shipping AC Origins with 4 layers of DRM, then excusing it's entire existence, when it's been shown to hamper gameing performance. This is the same company that called 90% of PC gamers pirates, and never apolgised for it. The same company that claimed back in 2014, that DRM was worthless, yet here we are in 2017, with them using 4 layers in total.

My main problem with Ubisoft is DRM, although bad ports and a useless marketplace (uPlay) don't help either. DRM kills the value of games for me, especially in the case of companies like Ubisoft whose games would almost certainly cease working if the company ever went down or anything. I'm OK with DRM at launch if it's removed later, but Ubisoft hasn't show any good will in this regard as far as I can tell. But yeah, Ubisoft handles PC gaming pretty poorly in general. At least they do support it, and there's some effort put into the ports (I don't think they've hyped basic PC features very much, unlike some other companies), but overall, the situation doesn't seem great. Your mention about sales was pretty good: I think I've never heard about Ubisoft having a sale of any kind. There probably have been some, but apparently not good enough to hear about.