As bad as EA games.
I have been a Ubisoft Customer for many years, since the original Rayman on the PS1 and then Assassin's Creed on the Xbox 360. I am a massive fan of the Trials games and have bought them all over the years. However after dealing with Ubisoft Connect, I will now go out of my way to avoid buying anything from Ubisoft ever again. Ubisoft connect is complete garbage and it makes playing Ubisoft games orders of magnitude more difficult to deal with. From the app not connecting, or crashing, or wanting to always be online, or asking for the password over and over and over, to signing me out not more than 15 minutes since I last signed in (and ticked "remember me"), I've just had enough. Curse you Ubisoft and all of your greedy/incompetent executives making the decisions at the top. Alongside the microtransactions that are basically turning Ubisoft into EA Games, the latest Trials game and Riders Republic are both massive hot messes and clearly hasn't been planned properly or tested from a UI point of view, and that's even if I can play them due to Ubi connect garbage getting in the way. Games don't need a launcher nowadays, and Ubisoft's insistence to integrate everything more and more heavily in the terrible launchers has driven away a customer entirely. Well done Ubisoft, you probably wasted a great deal of money and teams of people to create Connect, and all it's done has ensured that a long time customer has grown to hate your organisation and I will be doing my absolute best to avoid playing anything you make in the future. The fact that I'm so angry with your company that I have to write a review here, simply makes me even more angry.
I hope you're happy, because I sure as hell am not, and I'm going to vote with my wallet. By the looks of the other reviews on here, I am not alone in my opinions. Well done, your corpoate leadership are cretins who are out of touch with their customers. Sack them all and replace them with an old mouldy potato hooked up to a random decision generator. It wouldn't make things any worse the way I see it.
April 16, 2023
Unprompted review