Giveaway of the Day Forums

1. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Ubisoft are having four day sale with different titles coming up each day. The following are amazing deals. Each day there is a £1 ($1.50) deal with four fantastic games. An arcade flight simulation called Tom Clancy's Hawx 2 today, tomorrow you get the excellent God game Dust. change the land to enable your tribes to survive. Excellent graphics and good gameplay make this one of the better Indie titles of last year. (IMO) On Saturday there's the brilliant submarine sim Silent Hunter 5. It's the first time in the Silent Hunter series that you can actually walk through your submarine; in previous titles it was point & click, plus the graphics are amazing. You can play the game as an arcade sub game or as a real simulation. Also the subsim community have released countless mods for the game to extent the Atlantic theatre of war to other parts of the world as well as graphical textures and loads of new missions. For £1 ($1.50) , this is really a giveaway. Sundays £1 ($1.50) deal is the excellent driving sim called Driver San Francisco Deluxe. It didn't make much of an impact on the scene when it was released which I think was a great shame. It's an open world driving game with you as a police officer. There are some cool effects such as being able to switch cars just by clicking on them in a special mode. You are then magically transported to the car you chose. The game is mission based. again, for £1 ($1.50) it's a steal.

   Then there are the 75% deals. I've got every one of these games on Steam apart from tintin and I've got that on disc. all the games are great titles and the most you are going to pay are for the latest Assassins Creed title , but at only £7.50 your still only paying the price of an arcade game for a AAA title that's superb. Some of the other 75% off titles are almost as cheap as the £1 deals at only £2.50.

   These deal change each day, so don't miss out simply because you forgot to visit each day. The images are related to the £1 ($1.50) deals. Check out the area you can explore in Driver San Fransisco.

   Thursday:

   Hawx 2 £1 (this is a fantastic arcade battle flight sim)
   Tintin 75%off (Roughly £2.50)
   Anno 2070 60% off (Roughly £13.99)

   

   

   

   Friday:

   From Dust £1 (superb God game)
   Assassins Creed series 75% off (sale excludes ACIII.... Rough prices Brotherhood £5, Revelations £7.50, ACII Deluxe £3.75)
   Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands 75% off (Roughly £2.50)

   

   

   

   Saturday:

   Silent Hunter 5 £1
   Shaun White Skateboarding 75% off (Roughly £2.50)
   Might & Magic Heroes VI 70% off (Roughly £9)
   Might & Magic Heroes DLC Pirates of Savage Sea 25% off (roughly £6)

   

   

   

   Sunday:

   Driver San Francisco Deluxe £1
   Settles 7 Paths to a kingdom deluxe 75% off (Roughly £6.25)
   Splinter Cell Conviction Deluxe 75% off (Roughly £3.25)

   

   

   

   Posted 12 years ago #
2. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   HERE's the web page where you'll find the deal

   Posted 12 years ago #
3. 

   Campy
   Member

   Thanks WR. Hawx 2 is only $1 so I guess they are making those even a better deal in the US. Tintin and Anno 2070 are 75% and 60% off as you say. However, Tintin regular price is $30 so it now is $7.50. Is it really £2.50 for you? Anno 2070 is $20.

   Posted 12 years ago #
4. 

   pavid
   gamer extraordinaire & knowledgeable computer nerd who likes to argue, but is still a very nice guy

   I believe that you need to install uPlay, Ubisoft's client in order to access your purchases. Just what we all need, another game client. :(

   Posted 12 years ago #
5. 

   Campy
   Member

   I believe that you need to install uPlay, Ubisoft's client in order to access your purchases. Just what we all need, another game client. :(

   If that is true, it is a gamestopper for me!

   Posted 12 years ago #
6. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   All of Ubisofts recent games such as the Assassins Creed franchise require uPlay. Much like EA's Origin. For $1 I'd gladly install a cliet. It depends upon whether you really want the game. If you are into flightsim games then Hawx 2 is a must have, (though its not a true fligh sim, more like an arcade flyer). The same goes for the submarine sim. you can't get better than Silent Hunter 5 (until they released SH6).

   It is a pity these big distributors have resorted to using clients, but I can see why they have done it; you can partly blame those users who have ripped games off previously. The Origin and uPlay clients are partly there to protect the games from being copied.

   Posted 12 years ago #
7. 

   PlainVanilla
   Member

   I hate clients with a passion, especially Steam. Now having said that, I will be installing uPlay when I buy Settlers 7 on Sunday. 75% plus my 10% startup discount puts that game under $5USD with almost all of the DLC and I'm a sucker for Settlers games.

   Posted 12 years ago #
8. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Why do you hate Steam?

   I felt similarily about clients some years ago, but once I'd installed Steam I discovered all of the benefits that Steam gave me and I actually grew to like it as it kept all of my games updated with the latest patches. You can imagine with the number of large format games that I have (thousands); trying to keep up with patches etc was nigh on impossible. I had gigabytes of downloaded patches for my DVD based games just so that I had them on hand when I had to reinstall my games either because I'd updated my computer, purchased a new computer or lost a HDD to failure. At least with my Steam games they are always kept up to date with the latest patches. If you don't want the patch you can disable updating for individual games.

   Also (as you know) with Steam you can easily install your games to any computer you want without having to have a hard copy (DVD/CD) available; plus the fact that using a DVD over and over inevitably leads to disc failure. That and the ease of updating your games with the latest patches, the addition of dlc, the frequent sales, the tools section and servers as well as the news, links to interesting articles on each of the games you have in your games library and the social side of the client converted me within a few short months of installing Steam back in January 2009. Since using Steam I've made some very good friends.

   As mentioned in another thread I was actually forced into installing Steam after purchasing two Steamwork games from a different vendor (Direct 2 Drive). I'd missed that they were Steamwork games and was really mad when I discovered I had to install Steam to play them, but the draw of the games persuaded me to install the client against my better judgment. It didn't take long to convert me. :)

   p.s.

   Also. if I'd purchased every game in my Steam library as a DVD and all my other digitally distributed games I'd need over 50 meters of shelf space to store my games and that doesn't include around 15 meters just for add-ons for my games. I just don't have that amount of shelf space in my study. As it is, the DVD/CD based games (and a growing collection of DVD and Blue-Ray movies) that I do have (I used to give older. I've had to resort to storing a lot of my games and movies in cupboards because I'm out of shelf space. I've also had to store hundreds of books in cupboards and stupidly in the loft and garage due to a lack of shelf space. (When I started purchasing CD and DVD based games as well as movies my book collection took second place and gradually over the last decade i've dumped many of my books simply because there was no space in the house for them, or I'd stored them stupidly (i.e. in the garage and loft space). so for me, digital distribution turned out to be a no brainer. :)

   p.p.s.

   It still irks me a little though. :)

   Posted 12 years ago #
9. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Since Pplay was mentioned in this thread :

   Et Tu, Uplay? – Ubisoft Relaunches Its PC Store

   By Nathan Grayson on August 17th, 2012 at 10:00 am.
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   The digital distribution plot thickens. In the beginning, there was Steam, and it was… not great. But it slowly trended upward in its tiny virtual vacuum until it expanded into the empire we all know and mostly love today. And people noticed. So along came Origin, with its EA stamp of approval and not much else – though slow progress has seen it take a few steps in the right direction. And now, surprisingly but also not surprisingly at all, Ubisoft’s clambering into the ring alongside those two heavyweights with an extensive relaunch/rebrand of its Ubistore as Uplay PC. Though the Assassin’s Creed publisher probably should’ve picked a different name while they were at it, given the negative assocations UPlay could be said to have for some folk.

   As for the actual purpose of the relaunched service, the idea is to tie all of Ubisoft’s PC games together via social features, achievements, a storefront, avatars, and other typical distribution platform fare. It’ll also apparently bridge platforms, so PC, mobile, Facebook, and console will be connected in some capacity. Here’s the gist, straight from Ubisoft:

   “Uplay, Ubisoft’s online services and distribution platform, now has more than 35 million members and is available across Ubisoft games and across platforms. Uplay PC replaces individual game launchers and lets gamers access all their Uplay-enabled PC games and Uplay services in the same place. Uplay PC also includes new features, including an integrated shop, the direct purchase and download of games, a friends list and chat system that add value to PC players’ experience.”

   So, right then. Let’s set aside, for a moment, the fact that Uplay is also a rather miserable DRM system that recently opened its doors to all sorts of malicious hacker types (a problem which has since been remedied, thankfully) and discuss what this new Uplay PC actually entails. Disappointingly, it’s made roughly the same opening gambit as Origin – that is to say, it’s basically empty, bereft of standout features, and not particularly well organized. For now, only Ubisoft games are available, and even then, only more recent ones (F2P, thankfully, included). Ubisoft mentions, however, that it’s hoping to expose players to “classics,” so here’s hoping that changes with time.

   Organization, meanwhile, is kind of a mess. For one, the store hardly provides any information – only offering a handful of genres and three brand umbrellas to search under, and not even bothering to display prices on the frontpage. Also, some of those genre searches don’t even work properly. For instance, I looked under “Strategy/RTS” and found one game: Settlers 7. However, the frontpage also displayed ads for From Dust and Heroes of Might and Magic VI – the former of which was designated “Action/Adventure” for some reason while the latter was tagged correctly but simply didn’t show up in the search. Everything else seems functional, but only just.

   If nothing else, a decently organized link between in-game Uplay points and corresponding rewards could be kind of neat. There are listings for each game’s respective challenges and what you can unlock by completing them – though new outfits and minor upgrades seem to be about the full extent of it. Meanwhile, Ubisoft’s taking gigantic scissors to its store’s “under construction” tape with a series of very enticing $1 sales. Driver: San Francisco on Sunday looks especially nice – with HAWX 2, From Dust, and Silent Hunter 5 registering as slightly quieter blips on the radar.

   All told, though, there doesn’t seem to be much here yet. And honestly – given Ubisoft’s spat of recent gaffes, arbitrary delays, amazing inability to communicate frankly and directly with its consumers even in times of potential hacking, and dogged love of closed, obnoxious proprietary systems – I’d probably be hesitant to commit to this service even if it had a bit more going for it. There is, however, plenty of room to grow, and who really knows what the future holds? If nothing else, Ubisoft’s paying attention to PC gamers. Maybe in time, it’ll learn what actually makes us tick.

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   Posted 12 years ago #

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