Recently Ubisoft announced and released its UPlay service to the gaming masses, and the gaming masses looked on and didn't care all that much. The service is yet another way to organize your games and get achievements, and seems pretty cool for those on the PC, but utterly irrelevant to those who play Ubisoft games on the 360 or PS3. The only purpose to picking it up is getting the free DLC unlocks by earning points through Achievements "Accomplishments."
This fact is even further backed up by the video above, which shows that UPlay looks exactly like the 360's dashboard. I'm sure those of us who have already used the beta service noticed this before, but cramming all the ways they ripped off Microsoft's design into one video really drives the point home. It is interesting to see a Rabbid in the video, however. The Rabbids have appeared on consoles outside of the Wii, but that is their main home. Could UPlay appear on the Wii as well, and if so would that mean a third party will do more on the Wii with internet than Nintendo will ever do?
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I wish they'd grandfather in some older games...as Assassin's Creed 2 and Splinter Cell don't really interest me enough to consider this a viable service. It seems like a good idea to offer Free DLC to consumers who actually play through their games, which will lead to a slow down in trade-ins due to players actually wanting to play through these 2 games.
Free DLC for ach-based milestones is something that MS/Sony should have been thinking about and implementing a LOOOOOOOOONG time ago. Not any of that "free avatar clothing" bullshit, either.
Another gamming community to sign up for and login to everytime you want to play 1 or 2 different games!!
As if i didnt have enough of a mess with;
Steam for 6 of my games
Gamersgate for 4 of my games
Impulse for 2 of my games
EA Downloader for 3 of my games (no i wasnt thinking straight)
I cant wait for another gaming "service" that i can login to and be a valued member with a seperate friendslist that i'll see when i play that 1 game someday.
I'm afraid Ubisoft (among others) may have missed that Valve's Steam has this market completely covered and cornered.
Maybe Blizzard will be able to gain some influence with Battle.net 2 once Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 will be released...I sure hope they don't though, now that Activision have acquired them, they're guaranteed to try to fuck PC-gamers over with it.
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10:00 AM on 11.21.2009
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As if i didnt have enough of a mess with;
Steam for 6 of my games
Gamersgate for 4 of my games
Impulse for 2 of my games
EA Downloader for 3 of my games (no i wasnt thinking straight)
I cant wait for another gaming "service" that i can login to and be a valued member with a seperate friendslist that i'll see when i play that 1 game someday.
Maybe Blizzard will be able to gain some influence with Battle.net 2 once Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 will be released...I sure hope they don't though, now that Activision have acquired them, they're guaranteed to try to fuck PC-gamers over with it.