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Where are you talking to the Amazon reps at?

Personally, I think Joph has some behind the scenes sh*t going on with Amazon, GMG, etc. It's like they send him the sales to approve before they release them to the public.

Edited, Jan 22nd 2013 1:23am by IDrownFish

Looks like it's a Uplay (Ubisoft's thing) activation.
Says STEAM in the DRM, but that it requires a Uplay account? Hmm, I'm not too familiar with it, maybe it's for online play?
Edit: Even Steam's info says it requires a Uplay account.

I have it just for the free ACIII I got from a SSD purchase. But I have to cut back on spending for a while so even at 30 dollars it's too much for me.

Edited, Jan 22nd 2013 5:58am by TirithRR

As long as Uplay doesn't require me to download a different client to play the game I'm all for it.

Eye of the beholder. Don't care about achievements (although Uplay has achievements for FC3) , Uplay allows downloads, no real mods for FC3, going into Uplay breaks "big picture mode" (from what I hear), etc.

Plus these games where you start in Steam and then have to log in through Uplay, GFWL, Rockstar Social Club, Bioware, etc defeat the purpose of "single client" anyway.

From what I understand all versions require going through Uplay which is why I said Steam is just adding another layer on top of it. I don't care about Uplay; it works fine and isn't intrusive. Hell, as a launch client, it's probably less obnoxious than Steam. But you do have to use it for Far Cry 3.

Edited, Jan 22nd 2013 8:55am by Jophiel

Steam is exactly like those other things, it's just established.

People demand Steam versions because they know it's eventually going to have a huge discount applied to it during one of the holiday sales. Also it's easier to keep track of your game purchases over one client than say two or three.

I just find Steam easier to keep track of what I have. I really don't like the idea of having 3-4 "launchers" and having my games split across them. I have a few DRM Free games and Older games still on CDs (CoD4:MW) that arent steam activated and I forget I have them. I was looking through my Amazon digital games and noticed I have a few non-steam games in there and completely forgot I have them, so next time I get bored I'll have to try and remember when Im looking through my Steam list for a game to play i'll have to remember they are there.

As for Origin I really dislike EA, not so much as a publisher but as a business. They want to monetize everything with micro transactions and bleed every dollar they can from their customers and they are so big that many companies are emulating them. Activision and Capcom are getting just as bad (sometimes worse).

MW2 map packs were a turning point. I understand charging for them on consoles to offset what Microsoft/Sony charge the developers for data/storage on their systems. But on PC the Mappacks for Cod4:MW were free, like all the Fps before them. But because it was so popular suddenly they needed to charge, now we have this model where game companies are developing stuff for games and leaving it out to be sold later. EA seems to be near the forefront of this push with leaving content out to be sold later, and they are the first company to push this Online pass BS .

I will say I know Origin and Steam are similar but Steam has a good track record they have shown through the years with Holiday Sales and just overall experience with their system that they at least understand where gamers are coming from, and for now I have trust in their company.

Ea Origin on the other hand I don't trust, I don't like their idea that a forum Mod can ban you from all your games if you don't "Play nice". I mean I usually lurk on most forums but every once in a while Ill see something I want to chime in on and with their service I would fear if my comment comes off the wrong way or I use the wrong words to convey my meaning (Look at this thread to see what I mean My one post where I got snide about Origin I got defaulted because I chose to try doing it in a silly way instead of a long written out post like this.) I mean here Karma means nothing, but lets say on EA forums I wrote that, what's to stop a mod from banning my account or suspending it and locking me out of my games. I just don't want a company to have that much leverage over my words, to be able to censor my thoughts out of fear of retribution.

GFWL while being its own thing doesnt bother me. When I played Batman AA and AC it was just an ingame popup and I could choose Offline mode nothing big. I havent gotten around to Dark Souls yet but I think I can just log in using my MSN Messenger stuff for any online connectivity bs if need be (I think).

Sorry for the super long post. I just wanted to make my thoughts a bit more clear on why I really don't like /want origin games. The Farcry 3 Uplay I would think is probably like GFWL just a bit extra infrastructure/DRM to make the company feel more safe. I hear they are doing some interesting things with the system like being able to use your "achievement points" to unlock little side stuff from the games. (Wallpapers, skins, silly extra stuff) which I find interesting and since the points work across all Uplay games. I understand the idea that they seem to be going for.

You know you guys can add non-steam games to your steam list right?

jeez, get a bigger hard drive...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/

I would sign it.



Edited, Jan 22nd 2013 3:18pm by Shaowstrike

Funny story was brought to mind while I was reading that thread, the charge as a utility discussion. Me and My wife pay for her moms phone, we have Sprint. Well things happened and my wife wanted to switch to another provider. After checking our data usage, minute usage and otherthings to compare packages from other companies we found out we can't switch.

Me and the Wife live in WI and her mom lives in Seattle, but anyway. Data usage for 10 days into the billing cycle. Me and the Wife about 512MB to about 1 gig maybe. Her mom was at 6.5GB of data already. AT&T, Verison, and Tmobile reps almost LAUGHED at us when we asked about unlimited Data, most of them only had 10gig maxes on their phones and that was a $100 upcharge. We can't figure out what she's doing with her phone, were guessing shes not using a PC/Laptop at all and just doing everything from her phone. But dear lord if we hadn't had unlimited data with our package I fear what our monthly bill would look like.

After our contract is up were thinking of just using prepaid. Right now for 1500 Mins (which we use maybe 250 of) with Free Mobile to Mobile, Nights and weekends, Unlimited Text/Data on 3 phones we pay something around $220 a month, which even with all my complaining they say they can't lower that even when I told them that I could get the prepaid ones with Unlimited everything for 45 bucks a month.