Reminds me of this:

Some can't resist Ubisoft games, some don't have issues and some claim they will boycott and then simply go back on their word.

For me I'm not touching their games until I no longer have to use Uplay or get gimped ports. So far it's worked wonders for me in terms of saving money.

How so?

DRM

Reminds me of this.

Personally, I don;t feel safe buying Ubi games on PC, so I actually haven't even seriously considered doing it... besides Rayman Legends. Such a great game.

I got FC3 and FC4 on PC, and they both worked great for me. I also got a free copy of AC:U with my 970, and that seemed okay too, but then again I only played it for maybe an hour or so before deciding it just wasn't my cup of tea.

Hopefully this means more and better PC ports as a trend (in fact, this gen I'd say this is MOSTLY true, with notable exceptions like the latest Batman fiasco).

It's far from the dark ages in the mid to late '00s though, when PC ports for major multiplats were fewer and farther between, and with often horrendous hatchet port jobs.

Next one on my radar is the new Deus Ex : MD.

I'm 100% shocked at those PC numbers, specially given how Ubisoft is infamous for its lame PC ports. :P

Regarding the PS4/XB1, no surprise here since almost every third party game is selling 2:1 on PS4.

I'm not concerned of safety when it comes to Ubisoft. WHat I really dislike is their crap support towards their ports in general. Their DRm is basically giving PC gamers the double finger since they sell their titles on Steam but also their own store to reap whatever profit they can grab, the underyling result for gamers is that if you buy the game on Steam and proceeed to launch the game, the game will still tell you that you need to install and run Uplay to which their DRM then decides it wants you to download the game again (happened to me on two different setups and different games) or update the game via it;s own servers despite it being done on Steam.

I honestly just hate their client because it does nothing that the other ones outt ehre have already accomplished and done so in better ways, Uplay just looks and acts like a sub standard client, their Uplay rewards program is also a shell of it;s former self and their recent rebranding of the name Uplay to "ubisoft club" isn't doing them any favours and it hasn't changed drastically either.

The only way they will ever get me back on board with them is that they sell their games on Steam that don't require Uplay and give us decent top quality ports, or take their ball and go home with it like EA did with Origin but also vastly improve their client and make it stand apart from the rest, also giving us top quality ports.

Until then they've got no dice with me and I;m not going to falter either (haven't for quite a while now). The new ANNO game came out and while it looks good it will require Uplay and it's not really facing stellar reviews either and seems to have done away with what made the last Anno good so there's that for me to consider.

xb1 still doing similar to old gen hardware. I cant decide if that is good or bad.

I guess I've been lucky.  I had no trouble at all with Far Cry 3 and the Uplay client gave me no problems.  I liked getting in-game rewards, too.  I remember thinking that I wish Steam was a less of a pain in the ass.

Maybe that means install base alone isn't enough.