Originally Posted by
stateless0
When Ubisoft presented early access plans, they never qualified it as "Only when bought through Uplay", etc.
Any reasonable shopper, when presented with identical products (contents, perks, etc) with identical names "Gold", "Ultimate", etc, would expect them to function identically - unless specifically told otherwise.
If there was a big *** message on the Epic store, or from Ubisoft, saying the version purchased from Epic did NOT have the same early access times that would be completely fine.
But there wasn't. They were presented as the same product.