Why so much UbiHate? ;_;

****ing awful DRM and client. I can't even play my copy of Far Cry: Blood Dragon, it insists I'm offline no matter what. I've stuck to buying their games on PS3 since then.

Shame Child of Light has glitches caused by them trying to implement DRM on PS3, so I need to sign out of PSN to play it without stuttering and music dropping out. But at least I can go offline, can't even play your games without a connection on PC.

Doesn't help that pretty much any other company with a client isn't as crap. Even for all the hate EA get from people here, people will defend the Origin client before they would the UPlay client.

The problem with Ubisoft is that they've had a long, sordid history (much like EA) of doing absurd consumer-harming things like elaborate DRMs that interfere with the games they make, in their attempts to thwart piracy. They've pushed out products well ahead of time, insisting on catastrophically buggy releases and giving minimal support once their games are released. This paired with the DLC-heavy attitude they (and many other publishers) have lately has resulted in a ton of negative PR for Ubisoft. And heck, just a couple of months ago, I bought a game from them that simply does not run at all, despite me meeting the minimum specs. Two months of tech support hadn't solved the issue.

TL, DR: Ubisoft has a long, sordid history of pissing on their customer base in an attempt to squeeze blood from rocks and and in the process has garnered a lot of hostility from, well, their potential consumers.

That being said, I do -want- to like Ubisoft. They've got some interesting games and developers under their wing. I just wish they'd ease up on the capitalism enough so that their consumer base (and myself) could feel a bit of love. Instead of all the gouging. :(

Because their DRM is terrible, and often prevents people from playing games that they bought. So if Ubisoft is in the business of f*cking over legitimate customers, they can shove any sort of goodwill or positive comments up their collective corporate asses.

I consider some of their games interesting and would like to play them. Because of the dubious decision to use extra DRM, I have not bought any of their recent titles. This extends into gifting so I will not buy them even for others. Shame as Fary Cry 3+ and some of the Assasins Creed games look nice.

I've never had any problems playing Uplay games. The only thing I dislike is that with their client, if you try to activate too many keys (like if someone wants you to guess a missing letter/number) then it will lock you out of your account AND games for 1 hour. Fortunately AC2 had autosaves since it shut me out of it. :P

I play Ubi. both Homm6 and Anno2070. their client is crap. had to reinstall it twice to make it work. it shouldn't be like that.
i made it works flawlessly in the end, but that is not always the case

games are good, some are very very good. but you want to play them.

Buggy releases, lies, uplay, supporting "cinematic" feel aka 30 fps.

I don't have any complaints about their DRM, but their games are usually plagued with bugs, bad optimization and technical issues. I only buy games from them because they own the M&M franchise (which they're also ruining since Heroes of M&M 6).

Not talking about bad things leads to ignoring them, which leads to them growing.
"Noo it's not that bad, we get Half Life 2 in return" and now you got DRM shit all over the place.
"You don't have to buy horse armor" now half the game is DLC.
Their games aren't half as bad as they themselves are and not talking about it will not improve that.

Pretty sure Assassin's Creed II is considered the best of the series. So yeah it probably is that great.
Doesn't mean the others aren't lacklustre bugfests. :( They pump a new one out every year so quality doesn't seem like top of the agenda.
If a company advertises one product and gives you another you have every right to complain about it. Saying "no one said you have to buy it" is really dumb. Of course you didn't have to buy it.

Ubisoft itself hasn't been particularly nice. Forcing DRM that locks people out of their games and claiming things like 95% of PC gamers playing their games are pirated copies. There was that thing about downgrading graphics on PC copies of Watchdogs that someone managed to unlock a day after release. If a company shits on it's customers, the customers are not going to like them and Ubisoft seems to have a habit of shitting on it's PC customers.

So good things about Ubisoft?
I loved Rayman Origins & Rayman Legends. Great music, great aesthetics.
Valiant Hearts was also pretty nice.
Far Cry 3 was alright, pretty but kinda dull in the gameplay after a while.
My brother said that Assassin's Creed IV is pretty good, he played on xbox360 though and I definitely remember those posts about the bugs.
These are good things right?

They made a big mistake with Watch Dogs. The game was expected to be a GTA:V contender and ended up being sub par to GTA:IV in every single aspect. Buggy, broken, and basic. On top of this Ubisoft was charging a premium price and boasting E3 graphics that were very different from the release version. They even shamelessly copied animations from the Assassin's Creed games into Watch Dogs. That just makes me wonder how much else they copied.

Basically Ubisoft are inconsistant with the quality of games they produce. Customers are charged a full retail price and don't know if what they're getting is going to be worth the money. AC: Unity and Watch Dogs certainly weren't worth it for most people, but Far Cry 3 and AC: Rogue were IMO.

Steam > Origin > Desura > Internet Explorer > Uplay

Uplay , play U

No UbiHate here...I've barely played anything of theirs (really only Child Of Light, FC3 & Watch_Dogs) and never had any issues with any of them...I've heard and read a lot of bad about them but never experienced it personally

you can't go kiss them just because they made first story arc of AC great. Look at their other Games. Their support. No one just wakes up in the morning & says today i'm going to say shit about Ubi. they have terrible support. Their recent games & decisions..there are many reasons.

Hi Ubisoft

I like Assassin's Creed, I like Far Cry, I like Rayman, I like Driver: San Fransisco, I like HAWX (well, at least HAWX 2), and I was fucking hyped like real shit for The Crew and it is awesome. Also, the small games are nice ideas, too.

I never understood the Ubi-hate. Ubisoft is my favourite publisher (no irony).

Because their platform/DRM is pure garbage and they force people to use it if they want to play their games. I know some here had no issues with it but it literally broke some games for me. Last time i tried to play HoMM 6 i had to reinstall and patch it 3-4 times before it finally worked, their piece of shit patcher would corrupt the patch download every time.

Oh and i also hate them for what they've turned the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise into...

U-Play: Rustling the world's jimmies since 2009...

Uplay,shitty games,DLCs,huge prices for shitty games,never listens to customers.Nothing but a greedy company financed by dumbass children,who like their shitty games and keep their company going.

Calm down people, steam sale starts approximately in about 7 hours.

Some people will have legitimate issues with them. Personally I had to pirate a few of my games as they wouldn't download through Uplay. But for the most part it's just cool to be a bandwagon bitch.

people love to jump on bandwagons + bashing anything that ISN'T whatever particular thing they love (xbox vs ps, pc vs consoles, steam vs anything that isnt steam, etc)..

personally i like ubisoft... they make some fantastic games... some really creative and amazing games like child of light and blood dragon... and if i stack up the number of problems and grief that steam has given me, with the amount uplay has given me, and honestly they're about the same... ubisoft far and away has better support than steam does.

I get the feeling that all the hate is mostly because of Ubisoft's utter disregard for their customers and blatant greed. The early AC games were pretty decent, so were early Splinter Cell games. The later games of the two series, though... I'm not so sure about their quality.

You know, people should stop bitching about this UPlay thing. Yes, the client used to be awful, but they've since fixed a lot of the major issues. Also, most of the problems that arise now are because people are stupid enough to buy Ubi games on Steam and run them with two clients. I have not experienced a single problem with UPlay in over a year. Because I'm not an idiot and almost all of my Ubi games are exclusive to my UPlay library. Stop buying Ubisoft games on Steam and you'll be a lot happier.