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by simias 2754 days ago
Which makes the experience frankly painful in my experience. You have launchers launching launchers etc... I bought some Ubisoft games on steam but now I can't play them because when I launch them they ask for my uplay login and for some reason it doesn't work anymore (I could reset it but I couldn't be bothered).

It also generally doesn't play well with Steam "family sharing" that lets you share your games with family members without having to share the same steam session.

I don't like DRM very much but I do use Steam and Spotify because they mostly just work and don't usually get in the way. Cloud saves are pretty convenient too. I haven't bought a Ubisoft or EA game in a long time, mostly because I know it's going to be a pain to deal with their launchers.

If only I could buy a boxed game and not have to deal with any of that nonsense like back in the days... Some days I long for CD keys.