South Park: The Stick of Truth Won't Require Uplay

Steven Bogos

The Taco Man
Jan 17, 2013
9,354
0
0
South Park: The Stick of Truth Won't Require Uplay


You won't need to use Ubisoft's proprietary gaming platform Uplay for the PC version of South Park: The Stick of Truth.

While we heard earlier today that Respawn Entertainment's upcoming Titanfall will will not require Uplay [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/132009-Titanfall-On-PC-Will-Require-Origin] for the PC version of the game.

"No, Uplay will not be featured in SP:SOT," stated the official Obsidian Twitter account, in response to a question over whether or not the Steam version of the game will require Uplay to run.

[tweet t=https://twitter.com/Obsidian/status/430824603682746368]

Ubisoft's Uplay is one of the newest players in digital storefronts/game managers. Like Steam and Origin before it, it allows players to buy and play various Ubisoft titles. A major distinction between it and competitor Origin is that you can actually purchase non-Ubisoft titles from the Uplay store [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122227-Ubisoft-to-Sell-Competitions-Games-on-Uplay-Store], and the amount of games that actually require the client to be installed is quite low.

So you can go ahead and pre-order the game on Steam without having to worry about installing another game manager. Good to hear!

Source: Twitter [https://twitter.com/Obsidian/status/430824603682746368]

Permalink
 

Hairless Mammoth

New member
Jan 23, 2013
1,595
0
0
Woohoo! In your face EA. I guess all those always online shenanigans from Driver: San Francisco and Assassin's Creed 2 bit them in the ass enough that Ubisoft just wants to sell their games now instead of playing grab ass with the pirates that always get past their DRM anyway. I'd buy it on uplay, but that might send mixed messages about our reception to this news. Now if only EA would release Titanfall on Steam a month or so after Origin, it would be like all happy like that one espisode of South Park with the pile.
 

Shadow-Phoenix

New member
Mar 22, 2010
2,289
0
0
Well this is surprising, can we now have all games made by ubi not require Uplay now?, because you know it's still shit to have an online service attached to your games like shitty DRM.
 

Racecarlock

New member
Jul 10, 2010
2,497
0
0
Get the guns out, folks. Looks like the companies are going to try not shooting themselves for a change.
 

Colt47

New member
Oct 31, 2012
1,065
0
0
Can't say I am interested in the game, but thank the world they aren't using a DRM platform. My old PC turned into a zoo because of all the DRM having to run.
 

CriticalMiss

New member
Jan 18, 2013
2,024
0
0
Hurray! Maybe Ubisoft are learning and they'll just drop the DRM completely from all future titles. I'm still annoyed that they delayed it for so long though.
 

-Dragmire-

King over my mind
Mar 29, 2011
2,821
0
0
YES!!!!!!

I've been waiting for this news ever since Ubisoft took over Obsidian!
 

Foolery

No.
Jun 5, 2013
1,714
0
0
Cool. Now just remove Uplay from Farcry 3, and the entire Assassin's Creed franchise starting from II. Irritating DRM just encourages piracy, it doesn't prevent it.
 

Matt K

New member
Sep 18, 2010
100
0
0
Nice, because while I really wanted to get this game Uplay would have been a no-go here. If I'm getting a game on Steam I will not tolerate any additional DRM.
 

JediMB

New member
Oct 25, 2008
3,094
0
0
Nice. Now I can actually justify a purchase, which is a great relief.

I'm not touching any game that's shackled to Uplay.
 

Jaeger_CDN

New member
Aug 9, 2010
280
0
0
Racecarlock said:
Get the guns out, folks. Looks like the companies are going to try not shooting themselves for a change.
Maybe they just went out to the store for more bullets and this one snuck in.



I was considering this game and now it just jumped up on the list a few levels
 

DarkhoIlow

New member
Dec 31, 2009
2,531
0
0
AstaresPanda said:
So why cant EA do this and put TitanFall on steam ?
Because they are EA and because you can't really compare Uplay with Steam since when you buy Ubisoft games on Steam you still have to use Uplay, but your game is on Steam's games library.

EA wants to keep their game exclusive to their "platform" so to speak. Huh, feels the same way where Sony/Microsoft keeps their games hostage to force people to buy it for their respective consoles.
 

flying_whimsy

New member
Dec 2, 2009
1,077
0
0
This is nice, especially since somehow my uplay and far cry 3 installations got corrupted to the point where I can't do anything with either of them now and I haven't had the time to manually strip them out of my system.

I've been looking forward to the release of the south park game for ages, and now this is like someone is giving me free pie with it, too.
 

Clovus

New member
Mar 3, 2011
275
0
0
-Dragmire- said:
YES!!!!!!

I've been waiting for this news ever since Ubisoft took over Obsidian!
I think Obsidian was making this for Ubisoft; aren't they an independent company now? Pillars of Eternity is being developed from a Kickstarter.
 

-Dragmire-

King over my mind
Mar 29, 2011
2,821
0
0
Clovus said:
-Dragmire- said:
YES!!!!!!

I've been waiting for this news ever since Ubisoft took over Obsidian!
I think Obsidian was making this for Ubisoft; aren't they an independent company now? Pillars of Eternity is being developed from a Kickstarter.
That may me right, they did take over the Stick of Truth contract but I guess the studio itself might be independent. Honestly, now that I think about it, I'm not sure.