Need more gaming subscription services in your life? Because Ubisoft has just revealed their foray into the video game subscription service model. It’s called uPlay+, and offers over a hundred different titles, for $14.99 a month. You’ll also get access to upcoming games such as Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and Watch Dogs: Legion, as well as all DLCs. Classic games are offered too, with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Beyond Good and Evil being shown during the announcement. uPlay+ will be available starting September 3rd, but if you pre-register now, you’ll be able to play free for a limited time. uPlay+ will be on PC when it launches, and Stadia later on in 2020.

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[Idontknowwhattoputhere]

If you lose access to the games when you drop your subscription, they might as well be streamed.

Then

Just pirate your games and never look back

 

[Kioku]

It's an incredibly good business idea that actually benefits consumers too. Win/win. For less casual gamers it lets people play brand new games for only $15 which is pretty crazy. It's almost like the good ol' rental days, just with no restrictions and 100+ other games to boot. Very smart.

Right, but it stacks. Origin, Game Pass, Uplay.. Guess I'll be alternating from time to time.

 

[CallmeBerto]

This is such a great deal I'm surprised more people don't see this. I see alot of people talk about ownership, who freaking cares? How many of you really go back and play a 5 year old game? For the average Joe who wants to play the latest game this is a FANTASTIC DEAL. Pay for 4 months and that is ONE new game.

 

[Kioku]

If you lose access to the games when you drop your subscription, they might as well be streamed.

Nah. It's on your hardware. Renting a game vs streaming it.

 

[CallmeBerto]

Right, but it stacks. Origin, Game Pass, Uplay.. Guess I'll be alternating from time to time.

It takes 5 seconds to re-new your service. Even so I'm sure it is still less then 80 a month which is the price of 1 new game and an indie.

 

[Kioku]

It takes 5 seconds to re-new your service. Even so I'm sure it is still less then 80 a month which is the price of 1 new game and an indie.

No, I know. Just planning it all out.

 

[Xzi]

Then

I do pirate EGS exclusives, but I'm not complaining about having to buy games. Only about too many companies moving in the direction of streaming/subscription services. They all think they're gonna hit it big, but as @00technocolor00 said, they're just gonna cannibalize each other instead.

Nah. It's on your hardware. Renting a game vs streaming it.

Sure, but if you keep or make a backup of it, that's the same as piracy. Why bother paying the $15/month at that point?

 

[Idontknowwhattoputhere]

I do pirate EGS exclusives, but I'm not complaining about having to buy games. Only about too many companies moving in the direction of streaming/subscription services. They all think they're gonna hit it big, but as @00technocolor00 said, they're just gonna cannibalize each other instead.


Sure, but if you keep or make a backup of it, that's the same as piracy. Why bother paying the $15/month at that point?

I pirate games with a try before you buy motto

 

[kuwanger]

No "casual" gamer waits 5+ years LOL. Are you on drugs? Casual gamers are the ones consuming new media at its freshest. Casual doesn't mean occasional. There's a reason games like Madden sell like hotcakes every single year, it captures the casual audience.

"The term casual gaming refers to video games which do not require a major time investment to play, win, and enjoy. A casual gamer is a player who enjoys any video game without investing significant time to it, playing it spontaneously, irregularly, or infrequently." -- random google match for casual gamer which seems like a reasonable definition

You're not a "casual" gamer. You're cheap. Big difference.

Granted that I'm cheap. Looking at that definition, I'd say I probably wouldn't qualify as a casual gamer. I'm not sure if it's the casual gamer that's driving the Madden series or not. Perhaps the casual consumer? It sounds overly simplistic to group everyone into basically three categories: non-gamers, casual gamers, and hardcore gamers. *shrug* Regardless, there's a lot of people who wait at least a minimum of several months to get games at substantially reduced price, as evidence by the amount of people still buying physical copies precisely for that reason.

 

[Kioku]

I do pirate EGS exclusives, but I'm not complaining about having to buy games. Only about too many companies moving in the direction of streaming/subscription services. They all think they're gonna hit it big, but as @00technocolor00 said, they're just gonna cannibalize each other instead.


Sure, but if you keep or make a backup of it, that's the same as piracy. Why bother paying the $15/month at that point?

Can I pirate the Division 2 and play it online? Being a pirate is fine and dandy, but why gimp yourself out of spite for a business decision? It's like going to Linux exclusively because you hate Microsoft or even Apple.

If you want to "own" the game you can still buy it. It'll just sit there when you're done though. I've got 200+ games in Steam. Why? I have no idea. I play maybe 7 of them.

This doesn't apply to everyone. Clearly it doesn't work for you. I actually prefer paying a small fee for nearly unfettered access to newer games. The service pays for itself after a while.

 

[Xzi]

Can I pirate the Division 2 and play it online? Being a pirate is fine and dandy, but why gimp yourself out of spite for a business decision? It's like going to Linux exclusively because you hate Microsoft or even Apple.

I doubt it, but I don't know for sure. There have been more than a few instances of pirated games which could be played online. Regardless, Division 2 isn't an EGS exclusive, it's available on uPlay. And for my money, single-player games are always the much better value. Multiplayer-only games come and go with the wind.

 

[Hielkenator2]

Like the netflix competitors these services are kinda just cannibalizing each other. Wouldn't it be far more profitable if all these companies joined forces to make one ultimate subscription service? Yo itd be esp crazy if that was all available to stream through something like googles stradia or whatever. Wouldn't need a $500+ pc that will need hardware updates every 3-5 years to play the latest games. That'd limit piracy extremely, entirely for games exclusive to that service with no retail copy barring some dramatic insane hacking heist. Seriously itd be $$$$

Also there is the fact of data caps that some isp have , wich means no more games after a certain amount of data. You also pay for the best isp....streaming is seriousely a bad thing man. For people that only have enoug money to buy one game a year it;s horrible.

 

[Owenge]

It's an incredibly good business idea that actually benefits consumers too. Win/win. For less casual gamers it lets people play brand new games for only $15 which is pretty crazy. It's almost like the good ol' rental days, just with no restrictions and 100+ other games to boot. Very smart.

Point taken

 

[RandomUser]

And of course for invested gamers, the benefits are great. Want Watch Dogs 3 but know you'll beat it in a week? Buy a month of uplay+ for $15, beat it, unsub.

You're sounding like they make it easy to unsubscribe . Most company makes it easy to subscribe, like within a click or two, but you have to call to unsubscribe, why can't they have the unsubscribe feature directly on your account page and easy to find at that? No more wading through automated response and wait times to get someone.

 

[Dontuuch17]

I think it's a good idea. I can't tell if you can access classic titles like Grandia 2 also though.

 

[Deleted User]

uplay 2: electric boogaloo

 

[Xabring]

So at this point, we're up to like $60/month if you want to subscribe to all these different streaming services. Which is enough to buy you 1-6 games for that month anyway. Absolutely asinine. Apparently publishers are just tired of people owning their games.

Yep, That's basically the trend. Games as a "service" in a nutshell.

 

[Pipistrele]

Stadia is $10 just for the service which has 1 game right now

Additional games cost money - so you would have to pay for both subscriptions to play on stadia

Yeah, that I know - I just expect such "subscriptions for subscriptions" to at least be cheaper than a base product

 

[Silent_Gunner]

 

[Jonna]

This is such a great deal I'm surprised more people don't see this. I see alot of people talk about ownership, who freaking cares? How many of you really go back and play a 5 year old game? For the average Joe who wants to play the latest game this is a FANTASTIC DEAL. Pay for 4 months and that is ONE new game.

Actually, I go back and play games even older than that without going super retro (I just recently went back and played Prey - not the new one, the 2006 version).

Which is exactly why I am super down for this. I love my Ubisoft games, and this is perfect for some one like me that doesn't want to invest a whole ton of money on a bunch of games that will take me longer than usual to play, thanks to my work and my daughter taking up time .