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    Far Cry 5 free weekend problems

    Some notes that might be of interest to Ubisoft:

    I saw mixed reviews of the Far Cry series, where some are reported to be good and others not so good. So I never before bought nor played any of the games in the series as I didn't want to get burned.

    Today I noticed that there is a free play weekend for Far Cry 5 and I figured it was a chance to try it to decide whether to buy. So far, the experience has been horrid.

    1) On the Epic store it downloads but fails to launch. I mean... nothing happens after the install.

    2) On the Ubisoft Connect store it did not give me an option to install, only to Update... but then it failed to run because it of course was not installed. Eventually I did an uninstall (weird because I never had installed it) and after that it started downloading. Fingers crossed.

    3) I did not see the free weekend on Steam, but that doesn't matter... if it ends up working on Ubisoft Connect after the download.


    The main point of this is that you need to do better. A game that fails to install and run smoothly - on all stores - is going to scare potential buyers away, especially if they have a bad experience during a "free play" weekend.
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    Update, after that process the install seems to work and I'm now in the tutorial portion. Fingers crossed. After the weekend I ought to know if I like it or not.
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    Hey there! I apologize for the delay in responding to this issue, but I am glad to hear that it began to work for you! Thank you so much for posting an update! I also believe that I answered another issue you had in a different thread, about actually purchasing the game. Let me know on that thread if you still encounter those issues!
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