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by jlardinois 3100 days ago
The game itself is free this week https://freetrial.ubisoft.com/promotions/wic/12
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Awesome, just registered it. Now to make a docker container that runs this...
are there reasons to get it from ubisoft giveaway, if you have it already on gog (or steam)?
Not really.

There is a small case to be made in hedging against storefront shutdowns by getting free copies as much as possible on as many storefronts as possible. UPlay being the publisher's own storefront presumably has a different risk assessment for shutdown than GOG or Steam. (By that logic, I love GOG Connect for a small hedge of Steam purchases, and many of my Steam purchases in the last five or six years have been Humble Bundle or Humble Store for a similar reason.)