I signed up to Ubisoft's new Steam lookalike game download service in order to avail of some of the sweet launch offers (From dust €1, Driver San Fran €1). The good: + Well, it does actually work. You buy a game through the client, download it and run it from within the client. + You can use Paypal to pay for your games Hurray! + Ubisoft finally seem to grasp the reality of the PC games download market. There is none of the old extended download service nonsense( where you had to pay extra just to be allowed re-download your own games) +It has an offline mode and it works! Need to be online to download game of course and for first run. + Surprisingly realistic pricing. Older titles are selling for €10 and their launch sale had some serious bargains. +has achievements and friends and chat and other stuff you expect from a game client. The bad: - After buying a game it took more than an hour to show up in my games library. Perhaps this was server overload due to the...
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