Ubisoft: Tencent, Guillemot Family Weighing Buyout

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Pemalite said:

Same here. That comment has probably lost them a few thousand dollars just from me.

The client itself is DRM, there shouldn't be a need for other layers of DRM.

People will buy a game if it's convenient for them to do so.
If I buy a game on Steam... I should only need Steam to play it, not uDontPlay, not Denuvo DRM and not other accounts like Ubisoft Club, Ubisoft Connect or other rubbish. Just Steam.

If I have to jump through a thousand hoops... To the point where it's actually more convenient to just pirate a game, then they have missed the point of Steam and what made it successful, it made PC gaming more convenient as we didn't have to juggle CD Keys... And it stayed that way.

Denuvo has already been documented to cause erratic performance even on high-end machines... But Ubisoft have even added that DRM -after- a games release, after the reviews have gone live... Like with Assassins Creed: Mirage.

And then you have the long-term viability anyway of these other lesser (Yes they are lesser) platforms... Where we have historical precedence like Games for Windows Live! being folded which has made some games hard/impossible to get working again, even via Steam to the point where you need to use piracy tools like cracks anyway.

I have no time for these other publishers trying to make our legitimate lives more difficult.

I had a super interesting and annoying as hell instance some years ago with U(can't)Play; I installed Creed 3 on Steam right?, tried to launch it from Steam, the Ubi client booted up, spent 15 mins to update itself, then claimed I "did not have the game installed", so their client demanded I install the game AGAIN, but via their client.

I basically had to install the game TWICE on the SAME drive, or I flat out was not allowed to play the game at all. Also deleting the Steam installation ver of the game meant I couldn't play the game at all (as I found out), because Ubi's client also stated I did not own a copy on their client (which was true, I owned it on Steam), and then I tried to reinstall again, tried to delete Ubi's game install, but then it threw me back through the loop to reinstall the game via their client.

So I was stuck with double the drive space taken up via Steam and ubi's clients, just to play one Ubi game...

Yeah I uninstalled both after that and decided not to bother with their client afterwards, it was such a horrible experience of a lifetime.