Actually had this on the console forum rather than the PC one.
Basically this is a rant about uplay which probably won't go anywhere, but hey.
I don't actually care about the cloud stuff or achievements - I just want to play the game. Every other game I've got behaves this way. I'm in a situation where I don't have constant internet access.
Why can't there be a way so that if you launch through uplay - you get all that.
But otherwise you can launch the game directly, but if you do that, you don't get achievements or anything.
To me personally, it's DRM in a pretty service made to hide the fact it's DRM.
Guess I'm old fashioned (30 years old) and just want things to work how I want!
It's just a bit silly - Steam, Origin, Uplay - I don't want all this crap on my computer - I just want the game. I want to double click the FarCry 3 icon and the game starts straight away. Might sound like a stupid idea to some, but my idea is that I should be able to do that.
It's like the first thing I see is not the game - but Uplay. It's kinda like I paid X amount of dollars for Uplay and oh, you get a game. Imagine if I bought a car and everytime I saw the car, I'd have to actually use some sort of service before I got in the car to enjoy the car. Obviously not the same, but that's how I see it. I just want to play the friggin game and not have this service in my face.
If there was one service that was standard for all game - yeah, I'd deal with that. I don't like having a gazillion things which operate and look differently.
Beth did this with Skyrim - initially you could play the game without Steam - but then they changed that after the first couple updates. The game itself can be run without a service - so give me that option. People that want the service - no worries.
It's just venting - but allow me to use the service or not.
And then this - when I try and play the game, it constantly tells me that I need the Uplay PC overlay to function correctly. Every time I start the game.
I'm basically turning off every single thing that connects online - and I actually bought the game.
Then when I exit it tells me thanks for playing - bugger off! When I exit the game, dump me to my desktop!
When I'm playing the game, it's got my user in the bottom left hand corner - why does it do this? I noticed Dirt 2 and 3 did this as well. Look, sorry for not being up with the times, but I don't want my game synced with some server somewhere. Due to my circumstances and where I live - I can't get the internet at my house and end up having to use the hotspot on my phone.
And this is just after playing the game for a bit.
Unfortunately Uplay is the first thing I see when playing the game and the last thing I see when I exit the game and it's a pretty poor application.
So this is really a big massive rant and cry me a river type thing, it's a shame though - I love the game, but I don't like how I have to start the game. It is quite true though - people that download the game through torrents actually have it easier than the people that get it legit. Skyrim is a classic example - when updates are forced on your - it broke your mods. If you ran Skyrim without Steam - it was way more stable and you could do what you wanted with the game.
Yeah, bit of a huge rant there.
Software developer/writer as a living, so probably explains it. Got a couple days off work so actually have the time to be writing this long winded crap.
I'm pedantic with a few things (OK, quite a few), the software running on my PC is one of them. I don't understand why I need a service in order to play a game. If it were optional - awesome. It's not optional so I have to do what Ubisoft says (install Uplay) in order to play the game - not awesome. If it were a background thing and I never saw it, yeah, that'd be great.
It's probably loss of choice which ticks me off.
If any of the developers of the game or people putting in work for the game - totally no offense to your otherwise great product (the actual game FarCry 3).
i said this is another thread, but the days of double clicking a shortcut on your desktop and expecting the game to launch are gone - unless you're a pirate
99% of PC games launch through a service, whether its steam, origin, uplay, games for windows live or rockstar social club. most people prefer a client that manages their (sometimes hundreds) of games, has save game syncing, achievements etc under one account, probably not changing anytime soon
the only place i know that offers DRM free games is GOG.com - just dont expect any new releases on there