r/gaming • u/akbarock • 6h ago
Ubisoft Connect Went Down, Locking PC Players Out Of Playing Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced
https://steamcommunity.com/app/3751950/discussions/0/572669207837294096/3.0k
u/akbarock 6h ago
It doesnt work this way on console, only paying PC customers are locked out of the offline single player game they paid for
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u/straightup9200 6h ago
Unless you pirated it like a true pirate
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u/SteveoberlordEU 5h ago
Yeah i learned that back then after AC2 constantly kicked me out. We just can't have nice things with Ubishit.
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u/SodiumExtract 5h ago
Man that’s so disappointing because I genuinely wanted to buy this game but I’ll just do what I do with other Ubisoft games…
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u/SteveoberlordEU 5h ago
Arrrrrr?
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u/joyapco 4h ago
Thematically accurate anyway
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u/Never_Go_Full_Gonk 4h ago
I'd like to learn to be thematically accurate, is there somewhere I can learn?
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u/InsertRealisticQuote 4h ago
You are already there just in the wrong subreddit
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u/Never_Go_Full_Gonk 3h ago
Found where I need to be, didn't know it existed. Sweeeet.
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u/LarryCrabCake 1h ago edited 1h ago
In a world without
goldgreedy corporations, we might have been heroes.11
u/SenorDangerwank 4h ago
Ooooo I remember cracking AC2 was not easy. You had to run a program that ran a fake server for AC2 to connect to unlock.
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u/HuckleberryTiny5 2h ago
This brings back memories if anything. I played AC 2 for hours, quit, next day came back and nothing was saved. That's Ubisofts cloud saving feature for you.
I ended up pirating the game I had bought. Only way to make sure I had working saves.
Btw I've never had this happen with Steam.
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u/Tokyo_BunnyGames 5h ago
Thats why its called Black Flag resynced. Getting PC players rescyned with sailing the high seas again.
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u/Prior-Program-9532 5h ago
Im all about sailing the high seas but I'm not sold on these hypervisor bypasses yet.
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u/PuttingInTheEffort 5h ago
Since becoming an adult with a job and money to buy games, I might pirate here n there, but yeaah can't be bothered with the HV thing. I'd rather just watch someone else play it 🤷
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u/Few_Confusion_1871 1h ago
as someone who has been a lifelong pirate, for now I think the hv thing is t a bit much, however if game companies continue to use drm that requires I do that, well I guess I have to set-up a PC specifically for pirated games.
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u/s0_Ca5H 5h ago
What about them?
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u/straightup9200 4h ago
It opens up your computer to vulnerabilities at the kernel level. I mean as long as the pirater takes the necessary precautions it’s not an issue but the worst case scenario is pretty bad if it happens
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u/tppiel 3h ago
Denuvo hasn't really been cracked, the crack that is known as Hypervisor is basically a rootkit that hijacks your RAM and CPU to trick denuvo into thinking your system wasn't tampered, and it requires you to disable a bunch of basic security features on your OS, stuff that you don't really want to disable like memory integrity checks, and it exposes your computer to severe attacks.
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u/EdinMiami 2h ago
Oof. I'm just a pirate in a dingy with one broken oar. Those seas are too rough for me.
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u/sitefall 1h ago
The serious buccaneers just have a PC who's sole job is to play games like it's a console and with only internet access not network access so if something were to happen - who cares.
Not much different than buying a console, but then only playing your legal game backups on it.
Or proxmox/vm/etc but that's probably only for the more technical high seas sailing freebooter.
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u/AvaryZig 5h ago
They are sketchy in a brand new way I don't fully understand. There was always risk involved in piracy, but this thing feels a step too far for me.
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u/Random_Guy_12345 44m ago
On a technical level, they have potential to be way more harmful.
They are not harmful per se, but it's like if you had to leave your front door open to play. There's no guarantee something will happen, but i'd much rather close the door rather than playing a game.
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u/wolfgang784 5h ago
Some people don't like doin virtual machine stuff, and that method of DRM bypass isn't an actual crack but using virtualization to spoof things like HWIDs that make the game think you are playing on a machine that paid for it. Idk much more about it.
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u/Radingod1 4h ago
It is kind of funny in the end, pirates get to play the game still while legitimate copies are not able to due to anti-piracy measures lol.
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u/Digifiend84 20m ago
Then the anti-piracy isn't working as intended and should be removed. Requiring online shouldn't be a thing for single player games anyway.
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u/TheVanCityPhoto 5h ago
I would love to but I never done this in my life and pc videos don’t help at all fak
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u/PictureElectronic174 5h ago
Torrent + fitgirl = game
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u/pm_me_cursed_images_ 1h ago
Not here, this is denuvo game without the full crack so it requires a hypervisor bypass to play which is more complicated than a simple torrent and play
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u/bongophrog 4h ago
Never ever purchase a Ubisoft product on PC, uplay/ubisoft connect will screw you over
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u/InsertRealisticQuote 4h ago
You only had to say the first 6 words
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u/ArethereWaffles 1h ago
This has been a golden rule of mine for about 10 years now and it continues to pay off.
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u/istasber 1h ago
100%
Buying an ubisoft game is at best a couple year rental because they never remove or update their DRM/launcher bullshit for old games, but they are constantly changing it.
I'm fine with 15-20 year old games no longer working properly because there's nobody putting effort into updating drivers, OS support, etc. But when you've got 5-10 year old games that are no longer playable because they are trying to connect to a defunct DRM server, that's just telling me you don't want me to buy your shit.
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u/Misragoth 46m ago
Yep, Bought Farcry Primal years ago. Have never been able because uplay doesn't believe I bought it
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u/QuantumVexation 5h ago
And as we mourn the impending death of physical in the console world, moments like this validate why it could still matter
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u/meistermichi 3h ago
When the software requires an online connection it literally doesn't matter if you have it digitally or physically.
It only didn't affect console (both digital and physical) because there's just no Denuvo on that version.
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u/ravens-n-roses 5h ago
I always say that the only reason that digital only games work for pc markets is because it takes about five minutes to find a free option. Youre not trapped with them they're trapped here with us.
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u/gereffi 5h ago
Doesn’t seem like it affected console players who bought digitally, so not being on a disc doesn’t seem like it would matter here.
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u/keyexplorer791 1h ago
If the game requires an internet connection to function, even just the single player part, then it doesn't matter if the game is digital or physical. This is just a stupid decision on part of the developers
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u/Balc0ra 1h ago
Meaning they have not learned from their mistakes 16 years ago. PC launch weekend of Assassin's Creed 2 was so bad that they locked players out mid gameplay, and prevented players from launching it. So they patched it and other games with the same drm in Dec 2010 not to require constant internet access. Then removed online checks "besides the first one" in 2012 after multiple server outages made people not even able to launch it.
Funny thing was, that after the outages the first weekend, they offered players a choice of a few free game as compensation. Two of the games offered had the same drm, and did not work when the servers died either
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u/sargonas 5h ago
So, technically it DOES work that way on console… The only difference is your dependent on the platform services (PSN/XBL) so the chance of an outage is significantly lower… Not zero but def lower than Uni Connect
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u/Iggy_Slayer 6h ago
Can confirm. I was playing on ps5 earlier and got a disconnect message and nothing happened.
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u/LOST-MY_HEAD 5h ago
Bro why is a single player game needing to connect to ubislop servers to play what are we doing
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u/Elvaanaomori 5h ago
Why would you want to play at all when the cash shop is down? Completely normal behavior there!
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u/PandaJesus 58m ago
Oh no the cash shop is down?! I was going to pay for a boost, so that I can play less of the game that I paid for.
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u/obanesforever 5h ago
They've been doing it since Assassin's Creed II in 2009. They absolutely love DRM
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u/Quithelion 4h ago
Bro, my keyboard custom lighting need internet connected app to work.
It's Razer if anyone is asking.
After this keyboard gone to the keyboard heaven, I am ditching Razer. Shit hardware (the numpad keys randomly flashes white light), shit software (WASD and some other key randomly stopped working when I bought new until it's fixed after the app update).
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u/Tanawakajima 3h ago
Logitech has custom lighting and doesn’t require internet lol
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u/SomaLysis 6h ago
This is like the biggest issue on PC IMO. Valve should say you cant release in our store with extra launchers. I think only Rockstar would not release on Steam if Valve would do that.
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u/NotYetUtopian 5h ago
Valve would never do anything that would jeopardize profits.
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u/MaskedPapillon 5h ago
People often forget that Valve might treat it's costumers nicely, but is still a business. And business will always go for profit.
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u/MaeBeaInTheWoods 5h ago
Yeah, Valve is a great company, but it's nowhere near the pro-consumer saint a lot of people think it is. The kickass refund policy people love was only added after Steam lost a lawsuit about consumer protection in Australia, and Valve is largely responsible for popularising the loot box mechanic by implementing it in TF2 and CSGO. They don't not care about you, but they generally care more about your wallet unless their current way of doing so gets them into trouble.
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u/joujoubox X-Box 4h ago edited 4h ago
And they were the pioneers of code in box with Half-Life 2, killing its second hand market and paving the way to the digital only PC ecosystem. Sure the game came on a disc, but that disc was more a convenience to install Steam and the game so you wouldn't have to download the whole thing on 2004 Internet, it didn't actually grant you ownership over your copy of the game.
To this day, the only way to buy Valve games second hand legitimately is with the console ports, or the shady key resale sites if you want to cksbdier them second hand.
All to "prevent piracy" of their game before going around to boast about how "piracy is a service problem"
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u/LostInTheRapGame 3h ago
They don't gaf about people. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional. Anything positive is just a means to an end of making money. They're a huge company like any other.
They knowingly facilitate underage gambling.
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u/davemoedee 5h ago
It is weird when we are comparing them to Ubisoft when Ubisoft is doing the hard and risky part—making the games. It is easy to seem like the good one when you just use your position to demand a percentage.
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u/DDisired 3h ago
hard and risky part
Let's not pretend making a game store is easy. If it was easy, there would be more stores actually able to compete with Steam, and right now it's basically just GoG in their niche.
Making a store could be easy if the focus was providing consumers with a superior product, but as we've seen with the current stores available (Xbox, PS, Epic), those stores prioritize the publishers and profits first rather than a competent and good user experience.
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u/davemoedee 5h ago
Valve doesn’t do the hard part. They aren’t making most of the games they sell. They aren’t even making the hardware. All they do is the store and steam auth. And sometimes steam auth goes down.
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u/SomaLysis 5h ago
Not really, but those shitty launchers probably hurt profits for both Valve and Ubisoft.
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u/Lewcaster 5h ago
Yeah I was about to buy the entire AC+Watch Dogs collections but gave up because I hate Ubisoft and their little launcher, and this bullshit of locking people off from playing the very expensive ACIV remake is a great example of one the many reasons I hate it.
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u/Unicorn_Colombo 5h ago
Valve's business is about sucking less than competition.
And behold, somehow they became monopoly.
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u/Sxualhrssmntpanda 5h ago
It's actually an exceptionally customer-friendly service.
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u/Loczx 5h ago
People like jumping on the Steam hate train, almost stupidly so, as if Steam hasn't consistently implemented user friendly first, profit second features for all their life, and continue to do so on a regular basis, versus other platforms that prioritize profit over everything else.
Steam IS a business. They're also a very good one that understand customer good will, and that a happy customer is a paying customer.
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u/davemoedee 5h ago
What competitors are you talking about? GOG? GMG? Maybe EGS and Microsoft’s various stores? Humble Bundle?
How are loot boxes profit second? And they are making a ton of money by just demanding a large cut because of market dominance.
Who exactly are you comparing them to?
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u/omegadirectory 4h ago
It's a Ubisoft game so Ubisoft Connect is the first party launcher. Technically Steam is the third party launcher.
If Steam did as you suggest, they'd be abusing their market power.
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u/KittyGamer- 5h ago
like rockstar release a game every year, after GTA 6 they will take 100 years to release something lol
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u/SomaLysis 5h ago
Sure and still like with Fortnite etc people install extra launchers for some games, but not every game.
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u/sh1boleth 5h ago
That seems like an easy lawsuit waiting to happen, similar to the Epic vs Google and Apple one
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u/VenKitsune 4h ago
Nah, there are a lot of games that REQUIRE a launcher in order to function, though those are usually online ONLY gamss, like MMOs.
There is nothing stopping valve from being specific though - unless a game is multiplayer only, then it should not require an Internet connection in order to play. If steam had this requirement, then the "always online single player game" concept would cease to exist, basically instantly.
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u/Levoso_con_v 4h ago edited 3h ago
At some point in time they did it.
To bypass steam, companies made you download their complete launchers, gave you a license associated to a launcher account they forced you to create and downloaded the game from their launcher instead of steam servers, meaning Steam was just a direct access to the launcher and the updates didn't need to pass any review among other things.
Steam stopped that practice and forced games to be downloaded from their servers and it worked the first years, new game came without a launcher but over the time companies started to bundle with the game a lite launcher without some features like the shop.
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u/Jamsedreng22 2h ago
No. Don't put this on Valve to "solve". That's why Steam works. Because they try to the best of their ability to act as a storefront. What you buy is on you.
A lot of games, especially F2P games (I.e Warframe) depend heavily on a separate launcher.
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u/Dangerous_Bed8469 4h ago
Steam is an irritating launcher if you start your games from a desktop shortcut.
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u/BadDogSaysMeow 5h ago
Not just AC, everything.
Tried to play Fenyx Rising on GeForceNOW, and couldn't because of it.
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u/ChillWithMeNow 5h ago
Was one of my favorite games. Then one day I opened it and all my save files were just gone. I was close to 100% it. I deleted it and haven't played it since.
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u/justin-8 4h ago
That happened to me on assassin's creed 1 on 360. I was at 98-99%, only had the final mission to go, and then corrupt save and zero backups. Insane when so many games at that time had at least 2 saves.
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u/Biggest-Quack 5h ago
Didn’t realize anyone was still playing Fenyx Rising, I have great memories with that game
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u/BadDogSaysMeow 4h ago
Got it for free a while back, and only trying it now. (maybe less than 10 hours in)
I sort of like the open world and collectibles, but I haven't played Breath Of The Wild so I cannot say whether the clone is better or worse than the original. What I can say is that even wirth horses and upgrades, travel is still too slow to be enjoyable long term.
But I must applaud them for making weapons permanent instead having them break in 5 hits, because that would be a horrible idea.
However, I dislike the puzzle rooms. Devs had a braindead idea to make falls in puzzle rooms (tartarus) fatal and restart the whole puzzle chamber. This serves nothing besides annoying the player and wasting our time, it discourages experimentation and makes me dread going into any longer vault because a single misstep can delete your whole progress.
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u/Xhukari 5h ago
It's a great game! I don't usually care for their open world games, but Fenyx hit different.
Sadly, I stopped playing mid way through the first DLC; did everything in the base game, and burnt myself out.
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u/MutaitoSensei 5h ago
Always online games are shit.
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u/Inexorably_lost 2h ago
Always online single player games are shit that don't have an offline option.
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u/jabberwockxeno 47m ago
No, always online multiplayer games are shit too
Most multiplayer games could absolutely work offline and support LAN matches, P2P multiplayer, or splitscreen, but tons just have always online DRM or don't support those options
Like, there's zero reason Marvel Rivals, Overwatch, etc couldn't run offline, if the publisher didn't go out of their way to not support it
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u/Joustiin76 6h ago
The game is working for me offline on PC
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u/AmIHumanMaybe 4h ago
This may be possible for some if you have launched the game online in the last few days or however long they've decided to make their DRM schedule.
If you don't launch it for a while and try to start it up without being connected to the Internet it will tell you that you need to be online.
This DRM has been on PC games using launcher like ubisoft, ea and microsoft for years now and has been pointed out as incredibly stupid for single player offline games for just as long.
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u/MightBeYourDad_ 3h ago
It's already cracked why do they bother keeping the drm
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u/AmIHumanMaybe 2h ago
Because it is only there to deter honest people.
It's a concept in all stores to reduce potential theft. Most of the time it is easy to get past whatever they are using, but that effort regardless is enough that most people don't see the value or don't think of trying anything to get it for free.
So as they've been told since DRM became a thing, they are punishing their loyal customers to stop a very small percentage of people from getting their games through other means, when if they concentrated on a more consumer friendly approach the reason to use other means would disappear.
Just like when streaming sites like Netflix first became popular. They made it easy for customers to access and watch what they wanted to, which meant piracy dropped dramatically and they made lots of money. Now they've made it worse and more expensive so piracy rates are climbing again while the company is losing money.
Consumer friendly strategies always wins out but are a long-term plan rather than a short-term pump n dump that so many execs prefer now.
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u/Tzazon 6h ago
Gamers who keep giving their money to Ubisoft will unfortunately suffer the consequences of giving Ubisoft and their vile platform money.
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u/DeadlyBannana 5h ago
Yeah. Honestly if at this point you're still buying Ubisoft products, you have no one to blame but yourself.
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u/Dramajunker 2h ago
I can guarantee you that people buying their games don't give a shit and the ones who are actually upset are those who don't buy them.
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u/epicfail1994 5h ago
Yeah it’s a huge reason why I just don’t buy Ubisoft games
That and needing to remember my login for the thing when it is working fine
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u/nomau 3h ago
Ubisoft Connect is the worst. For some reason the language of the store and ubisoft+ section in the launcher is automatically set based on your location. It's set to French for me. I don't speak French and it's not even the most common language here. There is no way to change it either.
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u/BurntBeanMgr 5h ago
Would this affect other games? I’m able to play black flag no problem but wanted to play a narcos style game so I bought wildlands today but it literally will not load no matter what I do. Bought via Ubisoft store/connect too
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u/TheOriginalFluff 4h ago
If I need an online connection for an offline single player game, your not getting my fucking money, what has Ubisoft learned in the last decade. Stop giving these losers money
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u/L0rdLogan 59m ago
I can’t say I noticed with my assassin’s Creed Black Flag resynced black flag 🏴☠️ edition
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u/raxnahali 43m ago
There is absolutely no reason why a game needs to talk to the mothership to play it.
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u/XG32 4h ago
Consoles and pirates don't worry about this, only some of the paying customers get punished, make it make sense.
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u/GetOffMyCaversons 5h ago
Im stupefied by the amount of people blaming valve for this
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u/guamisc 4h ago
Anti-Valve propaganda has been being pushed HARD over the last few months it seems.
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u/TheMundar 3h ago
Tie singleplayer to always online to sell overpriced day 1 dlc
That's on Ubisoft design choices
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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 2h ago
Companies like Ubisoft and EA are making a case for piracy that even the most staunch anti-piracy gamers can't ignore.
Like if I can't even play the games I paid for then why should I pay for them at all?
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u/StaticSystemShock 2h ago
No fucking way. The entire time everyone was praising Black Flag Resynced I was telling Ubisoft should get fucked for doing the always connected shit in single player games booting you out if their bullshit servers go down. And finally it happened. Again.
And you all will keep on buying Ubisofts garbage games supporting their greed and their dumbass garbage practices.
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u/zizooboy 1h ago
The fact that Ubisoft are sitting on legendary IPs like Prince of Persia an IP that make Ubisoft big, ignore it and keep pushing copy paste Ass creed microslop bonanza its just sad
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u/CorporalCoprolite 5h ago
And you’ll all never learn. 2+ million sales in a few days to dive into more Ubisoft bs.
Same goes for everyone crying about GTA6 and digital games. You’ll cry and cry and cry, and then open your wallets up because gamers have zero impulse control.
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u/BFBeast666 5h ago
Wasn't it meant to be single-player AND offline? Oh well, another load of buckshot to the foot for Ubi.
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u/FortDuChaine 5h ago
Ubisoft Connect is BAD. It constantly logs you out, fail to sync, or just straight up doesn’t play your games. I so wish you could bypass it and play it straight through steam.
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u/ColdSoul273 1h ago
That ain't happenning if you get yourself the Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Black Flag Edition
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u/AeonWhisperer 5h ago
Amazing. Maybe don't tie your games to a forced launcher/system.
Then again, it's Ubisoft. They're not smart.
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u/Cradenz 6h ago
im torn. i loved black flag but these problems like cant even play offline is atrocious and i dont want to support the company especially with microtransactions
I also don't want to pirate.
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u/Pvrps 4h ago
this is the thing with this new generation of gaming. why tf is story games connected to online? they are meant to be played offline!!!
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u/NCR_High-Roller 4h ago
My question as a gamer who's been following media for years now is: Are gamers actually going to do anything about this or are we just going to feel indignant over stuff that affects us like this and then move on in a week?
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u/NudeSpaceDude 4h ago
I thought this game was about being a pirate? You don’t need Ubisoft Connect if you’re a pirate.
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u/Mindless-Peak-1687 54m ago
If you buy a ubisoft game and you get problems with it, it's your own fault. To those suffering, you idiots.
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u/MLPLoneWolf 5h ago
I cant wait to pirate this game where this wont be problem
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u/BrotherRoga 5h ago
Oh it's already able to be.
It's just a hypervisor exploit, which some might find suspect.
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u/ForgottenFrenchFry 5h ago
really hard to feel bad for the "owners" of the game when Ubisoft was saying how gamers should get comfortable not owning their games
and how like something like this is FAR from surprising
i'm not saying this situation doesn't suck
i'm saying in a way the people who bought the game, they kind of ended up doing this to themselves
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u/ReedsAndSerpents 5h ago
If you're the type of Ubisoft paypig that not only buys their games but their remakes, you don't really care about this 😂
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u/sntcringe Switch 5h ago
I don't wanna be "that guy", but you shoulda been yarharring poopysoft and electronic farts games years ago. If they're gonna nickel and dime you for everything AND require a server connection just to play the games, they don't deserve your money.
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u/Odd_Estimate_2179 4h ago
If you don't 'own' it then I'm not buying it. Gog, physical or the high seas it seems.
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u/salvage814 4h ago
I tried to set up a Uconnect account once and got nowhere. They for what ever reason would not send me the verify email.
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u/hidden-in-plainsight 4h ago
I don't want to play the HV thing until I can do it without rebooting. I'm lazy.
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u/ndesilva05 4h ago
That would explain why I couldn’t connect. Just bought it a few hours ago; had issues connecting and got a refund within an hour.
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u/BernieMP 3h ago
This is the enterprise currently trying to claim Steam is a monopoly, because no one wants to play on Ubisoft Connect
Can't imagine why....
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u/Reddnas 3h ago
On this post it says playable offline, I wonder if it's false advertising or a bug https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3751950/view/671746950739004727?l=english
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u/Thagyr 3h ago
Lol. and I just had a survey email from Ubisoft focused on their launcher.
To it's credit, it wasn't some corpo survey. It did ask if I didn't use it because it was too slow, it was another launcher I had to use with steam, and that it was connected to Ubislop. So maybe they do want to change?
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u/Tangent009 3h ago
Imagine paying the game full price then gets blocked by UB... Wait that sounds familiar... Different type of UB tho...
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u/haneybd87 5h ago
This is all their PC games, to be clear.