Uplay can go die a fiery death in the deepest pits of Hell

[Haerthan]

Romanians are called Gypsies throughout Europe and made fun of.

1. What do Romanians or gypsies have to do with anything?
2. I don't think this is correct - I'm fairly sure that Romanians and gypsies are, like, completely different. The gypsies are, however, also known as Roma/Romani people...which is still not Romanian.

My knowledgeable friend, If I knew the answers to your questions I would give them. But you haven't lived in Europe. EVERYONE hates everyone else, regardless of the EU and other political speeches. And to answer your first questions, it's the French that actively look at my people and call them Gypsies, hence my comment "blasted frogs".

 

[DoPo]

But you haven't lived in Europe.

I...haven't? But...then...where have I been..all my life? Wait...

Oh gods, do I even exist?

 

[Cid Silverwing]

There's so much more wrong with Uplay than just this shit.

This blasphemy bearing the title of "Heroes 6" is always-online too, so you must have an Internet connection to access your Dynasty weapons. Except they don't even work as advertised - seriously, those "Affinity" weapons actually NERF your magic power. Toppa dat, the netcode is a goddamn joke - I try reloading a multiplayer game with a friend and it consistently crashes within 5 turns, arbitrarily.

The AI also cheats more than I've ever seen in a Heroes game, but that's a different quibble.

 

[Haerthan]

But you haven't lived in Europe.

I...haven't? But...then...where have I been..all my life? Wait...

Oh gods, do I even exist?

Congratz, you don't have to deal with the shit my people do. Hell even in Canada my family still has to deal with it. I had to deal with it. Please do excuse the tone, I get really angry when it comes to this specific topic

Otherwise, Uplay sucks and should go die in the fiery depths of Hell.

 

[DoPo]

This blasphemy bearing the title of "Heroes 6" is always-online too, so you must have an Internet connection to access your Dynasty weapons.

Just a note: that sentence contradicts itself. That's because H6 is not always online - you can play it offline but you don't have access to the dynasty stuff.

Wanted to clarify, that's all.

The AI also cheats more than I've ever seen in a Heroes game, but that's a different quibble.

It doesn't as much cheat as it's designed to punish the player for some arbitrary sins, in my view. I mean, cheating would be the bullshit from H3 (WoG even went for some random extremes).

Spoiler: This is the AI cheating

[http://i.imgur.com/xzjPaq5.jpg]

Some explanation: I won. That was my ENTIRE ARMY I had accumulated for the entire game with 2 Dungeon cities feeding it.

It was an entirely Pyrrhic victory, though as I was left with 3 dragons in total. That wasn't the entire army of the computer - it was one of its two main heroes. Can't remember correctly, but one of the champions, genies or dendrites was impossible to get without an asspull (well, not that the others were particularly likely, but at least were possible), as the AI didn't have the corresponding town. And I am confident in that as I know that one of Castle, Tower or Rampart didn't even exist on the map (OK, in the case of Rampart, there wouldn't have been another one).

And just to clarify something else, as well - the AI's starting town was NOT Conflux. No, the AI had exactly one Conflux town. And it didn't even have it for enough time to amass those birds, either. I should know, I used to have that one Conflux town - the AI just rode by and completely curb stomped my defences there. Then casually came and curbed stomped my and my complete entire army a couple of weeks later.

In Heroes 6? It's an actual feature - the AI is literally given extra army out of thin air for no reason. That's regardless of the strength of the player - at some time intervals, the opponents simply get some more troops. Just like that. It's a ticking clock - you can make make the wrong turn at a fork in the road and waste a week exploring the wrong section of the map, find that you weren't supposed to go there (yet). And the AI is already on the move, because you didn't invest all your effort into trying to stop it...

Spoiler: This is an accurate representation of what happens

This is an accurate representation of what happens

Oh, but actually, don't be in such a hurry to stop the AI. If you do actually mobilise yourself and go all in trying to build an army and power...the AI is given troops out of thin air. Yeah, if you wait too long, it gets army, if you hurry too much it also gets army, in order to be "fair". Of course it's not actually fair as it's given too much of a boost. Just the fact that it gets a boost is a lot by itself as you are going to lose army getting to it. Oh, and it still gets extra army if the clock ticks one too many times, too.

It seems you have to operate at something like 80-90% max efficiency in order to avoid giving the AI a boost either by waiting too long or being too strong. But guess what - you have no fucking clue how to actually do that. You have to juggle exploration, army building, resource gathering and fighting with no actual clue which is going to hurt you or not. Do you take on the cyclopi to unblock a path (and lose army in the process?) or are they actually supposed to be taken on later after you've defeated the first AI hero that comes to stomp you and you need the army there? Do you try to build up an army fast as you need that in the beginning (because starve yourself for resources in the long run won't be an issue because without the army there won't be a long run) or do you build up stable income first, as you won't encounter any enemy for at least 5 weeks? Do you try to go east first because there is a side quest, or does is that quest not for this time yet and you'd waste a week to find this out? The answer is simple: who the fuck knows: play for 3-4 hours and you may find out...most likely that you're screwed and you need to restart everything.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Such a strange stance to hate on Uplay for your mistake of thinking Uplay and Steam worked off the same accounts. Lack of self-education isn't a good excuse to be mad at Ubisoft. Yes I'm well aware of your admission that it was your fault, but how that justifies your tirade at the end of your OP doesn't make a lick of sense.
You screwed up by assuming one account existed for two, somehow created a new account and "lost" the other one? No, it sounds more like you've no idea what your old account was and are blaming Uplay for your own incompetence. From your OP and subsequent posts where you don't really clarify this, its the only conclusion one can draw from your honestly poor composition, to be fair I don't know if English is your first language or not so I won't be harsh on your lack of cohesive writing.
If you want to hate Ubisoft, there's plenty of reasons out there I'd say (I'm not on the hate train myself, just massively disappointed) but hating something/someone for your own mistakes is at best extremely petty. It doesn't help your cause.
Again, this is going off the information you've given and my own decent level of reading comprehension. If what I've stated isn't the case, and your OP and subsequent posts poor language use is due to a misunderstanding of how English works, then by all means make another attempt to explain this so I can understand it.

 

[Haerthan]

Such a strange stance to hate on Uplay for your mistake of thinking Uplay and Steam worked off the same accounts. Lack of self-education isn't a good excuse to be mad at Ubisoft. Yes I'm well aware of your admission that it was your fault, but how that justifies your tirade at the end of your OP doesn't make a lick of sense.
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My point is that it should be default to link the two systems if you have both installed, especially if you run say Settlers: Paths to A Kingdom from Steam. They should have been both linked from the very beginning. Considering that the Uplay ID was the same as my Steam login, my assumption was logical, if wrong in reality.

Edit: This applies doubly, especially that the "new account" SHARES the same email with my "old one".

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Such a strange stance to hate on Uplay for your mistake of thinking Uplay and Steam worked off the same accounts. Lack of self-education isn't a good excuse to be mad at Ubisoft. Yes I'm well aware of your admission that it was your fault, but how that justifies your tirade at the end of your OP doesn't make a lick of sense.
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My point is that it should be default to link the two systems if you have both installed, especially if you run say Settlers: Paths to A Kingdom from Steam. They should have been both linked from the very beginning. Considering that the Uplay ID was the same as my Steam login, my assumption was logical, if wrong in reality.

Edit: This applies doubly, especially that the "new account" SHARES the same email with my "old one".

I guess that I just see Steam and Uplay as separate entities that happen to overlap their DRM's. But since they're separate companies, they don't automatically work together, despite one selling the other's games/housing the licenses... Its a crappy design, sure, but they're in the end separate and don't share login information between each other. Same goes for Origin/Steam. They're separate accounts only joined if one buys the game on Steam first and EA requires Origin to run the game.
*shrug* If anything you should be equally mad at Valve for not making a deal with Ubisoft to link Steam/Uplay accounts as much as you're hating on Ubisoft because it would take both companies working out a deal for that to happen.

 

[Haerthan]

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Well like I said it was my fault. I made a wrong assumption. I paid the price. Now to ensure that I never pay such a price I have discontinued ALL freaking post-2009 Ubisoft products. Anything prior to 2009 is still good, cause its NOT always online or tied to Uplay. Like Heroes 5 or Settlers 6 and 5.

Edit: Gods be damned Ubisoft, thou used to be such a good publisher. Now thou has turned into the French EA. I pity thou. I truly do, in between bouts of extra coherent rage.

Edit2: Don't worry I am now leery of Steam too. Cause if this happens with Steam, imma hunt the whoever coded it. 94 games isnt a laughing matter.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Well like I said it was my fault. I made a wrong assumption. I paid the price. Now to ensure that I never pay such a price I have discontinued ALL freaking post-2009 Ubisoft products. Anything prior to 2009 is still good, cause its NOT always online or tied to Uplay. Like Heroes 5 or Settlers 6 and 5.

Edit: Gods be damned Ubisoft, thou used to be such a good publisher. Now thou has turned into the French EA. I pity thou. I truly do, in between bouts of extra coherent rage.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not unsympathetic, the Steam/Uplay/Origin overlap is (as I said) annoying and redundant. One should be able to buy a key from wherever, activate it on whatever base DRM platform (since they insist we use the damn thing) and not have to mess with running two DRM's at the same time. I don't hate on Uplay so much, just feel sad that so many publishers have fallen so far from grace. I had this discussion earlier and its not so much that they're making poor games or platforms but rather that QA is something these large companies seem to feel is not a worthy investment, and the entire medium is suffering for QA getting the heavy end of the budget ax.
I hope that the fiascos of Unity and BF4 have taught publishers a lesson on using players as beta testers instead of relying first on internal QA, but it may take more than that to get their attention. Next time an AC or BF game is released, I think we'll see some trepidation from users who bought the last game in the series... thats my hope anyway.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

But you haven't lived in Europe.

I...haven't? But...then...where have I been..all my life? Wait...

Oh gods, do I even exist?

Man, don't you hate it when an existential crisis sneaks up on you like that? Always a good way to ruin a Wednesday.

I don't find Uplay offensive, but I only used it once for a beta (The Crew if you're wondering). So I can't say I wish it to burn in the fiery depths, but I also haven't been wronged by it.

Still don't care for it though. Such a pointless piece of digital dung. And I really don't see how Ubi benefits from it. I mean I guess it's nice for them to not have to share their profits with VALVe or whatever, but they still had to pay for that thing to be programmed and hosted. Seems like a wash. But what do I know about running a giant company like that? Either way, I took it off my PC right after the Crew beta ended and have zero regrets about that.