After following the advice of the US Forum Manager and the Ubisoft Support Staff NCSA, this is what happened 2 weeks after contacting UbiSoft customer support :
*drumroll*
Nothing
I didn't expect much but this sure beat it."Nothing" is a pretty solid statement from customer support - and I do understand a clear statement when I hear one.
Everything I tried, offered and posted was utterly and completely useless. A waste of time.
I have closed the "support ticket" and absolutely rest my case.
If it hasn't been obvious already, now it's official :
UbiSoft has abandoned the game and its customers and has moved on... already several months ago. Nothing special, they just moved on.
I assume isolated, client-specific issues can still be addressed to support and will (as opposed to me) actually receive some response. Good luck with that.
So this is it, I'm outta here, will never buy an UbiSoft product again and remember very well what happened.
That's what they wanted, that's what they worked hard for so that's what they get.
So all there is left is an occasional Multiplayer game that by now ends with >85% certainty in the typical "Uplay connection lost" - kicked by the server/all Players supposedly left the game (while it's actually you that got booted), Host Crashes, Client Crashes, endless Host Migrations (due to Host crashes), endless instability, Network Sync lost, annoying UPlay failures such as ultra-slow/obsolete gamestates preventing joining matches with Friends, false/intransparent failures to join matches/lobbies (despite being almost empty etc etc etc...).
Today's score of only 3 Hours gaming (confirmed to happen to other affected players via Chat, so it's NOT related to my computer, network or ISP) :
20 Host Migrations, 1/4 of which lead to severe degradation of remaining game
5 Host Crashes, all resulting in crash of Clients game as well (how practical FarCry3 takes forever to restart despite 8GB RAM & Dual SSD)
4 Lobby Crashes, resulting in mass exodus of players in Lobby (>75%)
4 UPlay failures (connection loss), resulting in getting kicked from game
15 failed UPlay attempts to join a running game despite friends via chat clearly reporting lots of free space remaining (can't join, session not found, hung join attempts etc. etc.)
Welcome to UPlay. Welcome to FarCry3. Welcome to failure, denial, incompetence and insanity.
- Unexpected Update -
After almost a month (!), I actually did receive a response, containing basically the following :
1) they apologize for the extreme delays, these occur because Support is working at or beyond their absolute limit and have to respond chronologically
( considering UbiSoft is pushing the results of its bug-ridden game 100% onto unprepared Level 3 support instead of taking responsibility and fix the damn buginfested game, this is to be expected but funny to read 1st hand... poor guys )
2) they already have a handy-dandy FAQ that I should check to answer my question (which wasn't much of a question but rather a situation report from the gaming front and a series of suggestions)
( no comment needed, referring to the FAQ in this case is like responding to a customer who got delivered a brand new car, returning because he found his car's windows damaged, tires deflated, engine leaking fluids of all kinds and a demolished interior... and actually recommending him to read the car's instruction manual as a solution ). It's also a classic example of what happens when Level 1/2 customer Support is literally non-existent and responds to a bucket full of fleet-wide problems and game show-stopper bugs - and press it all onto completely out-of-their-league Level 3 support. Absolutely classic among failures within an organization, broken links and complete lack of responsibility/accountability. UbiSoft could actually appoint the next high-ranking political figure with these "skills"...
...I did give them a more or less humorous re-Intro into what is needed to fix this mess and they obviously took it with a chuckle, knowing very well how unbelievably bad the situation is
They made some honest remarks but obviously couldn't promise anything, they only can do what they can but the ball is clearly with UbiSoft Management.
PS.
Just "trying" to play a bit today, I got 7 Host Migrations within 5 Minutes, which started from a full Lobby and ended with the last one (as usual) destroying the game that was a 2v2 at the end.
I assume I only made it into the terminal "which host fails/crashes next?" lottery because I run the unreliable UPlay component at High Priority via Task Manager, which does tend to reduce its "Oops, temporary lost connection to the Servers again. Sorry for the repeated inconvinience which ruined your game....again" behaviour pattern somewhat.
Yesterday I got lucky, I was actually after 2 hours of lag spikes/Host Crashes/Game crashes etc. able to play 2 rounds with acceptable quality. So make that 2 acceptable out of 10 unplayable/killed by bugs or the typical UPlay failures ( I do not count into that, that it was impossible to even join a match together with a Party of a mere 2 people, which we tried to our dandest for 30 Minutes; the results of bigger parties or even clan joins are well-known and usually downright impossible to sustain for even one single game - if you do manage, boy it must be your lucky day! ).
This is how bad it has become (as I predicted, no surprises here), serious Multiplayer gaming of any kind is now approaching NoGo Air Attack levels a.k.a. the point of becoming simply - pointless.
As it stands now, FarCry3 is still running (rather stumbling) unchanged at V0.92beta Nightly Build 03032013 and stands as one of the most bug-ridden online games of the last 10 years.
.........
In the meantime UbiSoft has completed the following milestones :
Host Migration - Platinum Skull
(crash or otherwise fail Hosts 10000000 times during a Multiplayer game)
Player Bug-Off - Iridium Skull
(piss off Players 50000000 times by denying, disrupting or destroying gameplay by employing any bugs during a Multiplayer game)
Confidence Shambler - Unobtainium Skull
(destroy the confidence of the entire gaming community in your ability to establish & maintain a functional gaming architecture and employ common sense in supportive ways)
A little Update a few months later :
Problems acknowleged by UbiSoft - 0
Problems fixed by UbiSoft - 0
MultiPlayer condition - unstable / critical
Proof that UbiSoft has long abandoned the game and doesn't care 1 bit for its customers - TRUE
PS.
The next guy that advises me to contact UbiSoft Support about these issues is getting a professional hit team sent to his home so at least some justice is randomly spread out
These guys apparently only have time to work on important stuff like this Forum's Style Sheets and spend on advertising, rather than do their job.
FarCry3 will definitely be my last UbiSoft game, judging by the results their internal structures must be completely FUBAR and the company nagging at the edge of failure.
I've also learned that the label "UPLay" - which I didn't know before - is to be avoided at all costs. Now I know It is sort of the AOL of the gaming industry.
So in a way, FarCry3 did pay off - this knowledge will prevent me from making future mistakes.