Far Cry 3 Uplay Workaround

The reddit community has presented a workaround for problems users were having playing Far Cry 3, as the shooter sequel is now available in Europe, saying simply setting the game's Uplay mode to "offline" allows it to be played even with the servers unavailable. As detailed on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, many users were unable to play due to Uplay servers being offline, leading to accusations of more Ubisoft always-on DRM. In the meantime, Eurogamer notes that besides the workaround, Ubi tweets that the servers are back: "Dear #FarCry3PC players, thank you for your patience, our servers are back up & running. Have fun playing!"
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jacobvandy wrote on Nov 30, 2012, 17:47:
Yeah, but Steam is much more user-friendly and functional, not to mention less intrusive... If you're like any of the perhaps 95% of people around here, Steam is where you have the lion's share of your [digital] game library and social contacts. You say "oh, so since Steam is the most popular, it gets a pass?" Yes and no...

It got as big as it did because it WORKS, and works well. It is NOT always-on DRM, it does NOT phone home to some server every single time you launch a game to find out whether you're allowed to play something, it is NOT integrated into core systems of the games you play in such a way that will render them UNPLAYABLE when the master server is unavailable... If you lose your internet connection after the program is already running, i.e. you've logged in, it doesn't lock you out. If you've logged in at least once on that computer, you don't even need to be online when you launch Steam, because it has an actual, working offline mode... Yadda yadda yadda.

Uplay is a pile of shit. And that's all beside the point that you seemed to have ignored -- it's 100% redundant for games owned and launched through Steam.

Unless Uplay has changed since the last time I used it it's not anymore complex, log in, launch game play. 99.9% of the people playing on PC have always on connections anyway. I can see where it would be a pain in the ass if you're traveling and playing on a laptop with no net connection, but other than that to me anyway it isn't that much more annoying then firing up steam, waiting for it's slow ass overlays and digging through a heavily populated list to pick what I'm in the mood to play if I don't have a desktop shortcut to it already.
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