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Am 13/12/15 um 13:42 schrieb Tim O:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 19:57:05 -0700, PW
> <emailad...@ifIremember.com> wrote:
>
>> I should have known better than to purchase another UPlay title.  $60
>> down the drain as I opened the software that I purchased from Amazon.
>>
>> The DVD spins and the UPlay logo appears but does not do a darn thing.
>> I could have donated the money to one of the charities that I help out
>> with.
>>
>> I spent an hour Googling the problem and found nothing.  POS UPlay.
>>
>> -pw
>
> I've purchased all my Ubi games on STEAM, but just thinking about this
> something doesn't add up. UPlay isn't a disc protection scheme, its
> just a login thing, right?
>
> If the disc based games still come wtih a key, can you just add it to
> UPlay and d/l the game? Guess if you can't do it that way through
> UPlay you can still do through STEAM.
>
> There was a time I agreed with you on wanting the physical media, but
> I'm over it. I have a closet with about 400 game CD's/DVD's in it that
> I never touch.
>
Actually I prefer the digital distribution nowadays, given all the 
shitty copy protection schemes which screwed over your pc, adding to 
that that you had to swap disks if you wanted to change a game and 
ending with 3 time online activation schemes, I have given up on disks 
entirely. That Microsoft recently killed some of the copy protection 
schemes of the early 2000s just was the final nail for DVD distribution 
for me. Add to that that I do a lots of gamestreaming into the living 
room, which is also only possible with digitally distributed games.
At least on the PC DVD gaming has died for me years ago. On consoles it 
is slightly different there you still can buy used games or have a high 
resale value on disks. Also the online games are way more expensive on 
consoles than on the PC.

The downside of the entire development is, that you need a good internet 
line (I have a 100Mbit flat rate) so if you are on a bad internet line 
DVDs still might be the way to go.

Btw. one thing I noticed is that the PC never made the jump to Blu Ray 
but games tend to have 50Gig and more nowdays so a DVD distribution 
often ends up with a steam key in the box only or a DVD which just 
triggers Steam. I never understood why they simply dont drop in Blu Rays 
into the box, after all there is literally no gaming PC nowadays without 
a Blu Ray drive.