Ubisoft has warned of falling company revenues and said it's seen that "many new games are struggling to stand out" as players turn away from traditional full-price releases.
I remember trying to start Ubisoft games from the Steam store, it starting Uplay, and then needing to log in to some online service just to play a game I had the shortcut for on my desktop. So many middlemen.
And you can end up with games in your steam library tied to different Ubisoft accounts too. And despite what they tell you in the community forums, their customer support will waste hours of your time and can’t actually help you with this.
I ran into this recently with Watch Dogs 2 which I never did finish. I finally got it installed on my linux machine, got it to actually start, and then got blasted with the Uplay garbage. Once I got that sorted out then it told me I was signed in with the wrong account and I had to go through a whole thing trying to reset the password for an account I had to guess the email for and wasn’t even sure I had. Now every time I launch the game I have to go through a whole thing where it starts, tells me I’m on the wrong, account, then restarts and makes me sign in with that other account.
I remember trying to start Ubisoft games from the Steam store, it starting Uplay, and then needing to log in to some online service just to play a game I had the shortcut for on my desktop. So many middlemen.
And you can end up with games in your steam library tied to different Ubisoft accounts too. And despite what they tell you in the community forums, their customer support will waste hours of your time and can’t actually help you with this.
I ran into this recently with Watch Dogs 2 which I never did finish. I finally got it installed on my linux machine, got it to actually start, and then got blasted with the Uplay garbage. Once I got that sorted out then it told me I was signed in with the wrong account and I had to go through a whole thing trying to reset the password for an account I had to guess the email for and wasn’t even sure I had. Now every time I launch the game I have to go through a whole thing where it starts, tells me I’m on the wrong, account, then restarts and makes me sign in with that other account.
Absolute sheer stupidity.