I bought Blacklist for Steam. Recently, I was getting the "failed to synchronize achievements" message from uplay when launching the game. A quick web search suggested reinstalling uplay as this message apparently indicates uplay isn't updating. So I did. Begin the problem that cost me my 40 hours worth of game progress.
My C drive is a SSD. I then have a D drive which is a regular HDD. I install all games and such to the D drive. Because I'm impatient and wanted to get back to enjoying a mother loving game that I paid mother loving 60$ for, I neglected to change the install path to the D drive instead of the default C when running the uplay installer.
Let me make it clear. Instead of using
D:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\
once again, I let it install to the default
C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\
I'm a user. We make these mistakes.
I launch uplay, log back in, and prepare to be happy (not thrilled, only the lovely voice of Michael Ironside could thrill me while playing Splinter Cell. Which is not the case with Blacklist). Once I'm logged in, I go to Steam and launch Blacklist.
Blacklist loads and, what's this? Select my difficultly? Why would you want me to do such a thing, I've been playing this game for 40 hours already. You already know how I play. So I select Realistic and figure I'll be on my way.
WRONG.
Even though I had uplay's "cloud save sync" option enabled, it didn't redownload my game save, since one did not already exist in the C drive installation. Well, assuming one was ever uploaded to begin with. I checked my old D drive install of uplay and the only game save it had was for "2", which I'm pretty sure is Conviction. There was no "91". However, I go to the erroneous C drive install of uplay and bam, there's a "91" folder.
Why the hell you guys put -user- data in your Program Files folder, instead of nesting in "Documents", I do not know.
Why the hell you guys keep all progress, including that of multiplayer, stored locally, I do not know.
Why the hell you guys reinvented the wheel when Valve had already designed, implemented, tested, and shipped something that works, I do not know.
What I do know is, I've lost 40 hours of progress in Blacklist due to whatever uplay's excuse is for cloud save "syncing". Logic would suggest syncing would include downloading what was already in the cloud to the local machine that didn't already have anything).
What I do know is, with the exception of Rocksmith 2014 which I sadly already paid for on Steam and there are no take backs, I will NEVER, EVER again use any of -my- money on something Ubisoft puts solely in the hands of uplay. Because iCantPlay the game save I already invested 40 hours into. Never again.
Thanks for wasting 40 hours of my life. I don't care how much I enjoyed what you did with Blacklist. Ubisoft's poor excuse of a game client platform you call uplay threw any meaning to those 40 hours out the window. I will now make it part of my life as a gamer and consumer to make sure no one that I know willing invests any of their money in any product you make again.
Unless Ubisoft can somehow give me those 40 hours of progress back? Seeing as how uplay couldn't, I doubt it. How about my money back?
You disappoint me, Ubi. I was really looking forward to The Division too.
My C drive is a SSD. I then have a D drive which is a regular HDD. I install all games and such to the D drive. Because I'm impatient and wanted to get back to enjoying a mother loving game that I paid mother loving 60$ for, I neglected to change the install path to the D drive instead of the default C when running the uplay installer.
Let me make it clear. Instead of using
D:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\
once again, I let it install to the default
C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\
I'm a user. We make these mistakes.
I launch uplay, log back in, and prepare to be happy (not thrilled, only the lovely voice of Michael Ironside could thrill me while playing Splinter Cell. Which is not the case with Blacklist). Once I'm logged in, I go to Steam and launch Blacklist.
Blacklist loads and, what's this? Select my difficultly? Why would you want me to do such a thing, I've been playing this game for 40 hours already. You already know how I play. So I select Realistic and figure I'll be on my way.
WRONG.
Even though I had uplay's "cloud save sync" option enabled, it didn't redownload my game save, since one did not already exist in the C drive installation. Well, assuming one was ever uploaded to begin with. I checked my old D drive install of uplay and the only game save it had was for "2", which I'm pretty sure is Conviction. There was no "91". However, I go to the erroneous C drive install of uplay and bam, there's a "91" folder.
Why the hell you guys put -user- data in your Program Files folder, instead of nesting in "Documents", I do not know.
Why the hell you guys keep all progress, including that of multiplayer, stored locally, I do not know.
Why the hell you guys reinvented the wheel when Valve had already designed, implemented, tested, and shipped something that works, I do not know.
What I do know is, I've lost 40 hours of progress in Blacklist due to whatever uplay's excuse is for cloud save "syncing". Logic would suggest syncing would include downloading what was already in the cloud to the local machine that didn't already have anything).
What I do know is, with the exception of Rocksmith 2014 which I sadly already paid for on Steam and there are no take backs, I will NEVER, EVER again use any of -my- money on something Ubisoft puts solely in the hands of uplay. Because iCantPlay the game save I already invested 40 hours into. Never again.
Thanks for wasting 40 hours of my life. I don't care how much I enjoyed what you did with Blacklist. Ubisoft's poor excuse of a game client platform you call uplay threw any meaning to those 40 hours out the window. I will now make it part of my life as a gamer and consumer to make sure no one that I know willing invests any of their money in any product you make again.
Unless Ubisoft can somehow give me those 40 hours of progress back? Seeing as how uplay couldn't, I doubt it. How about my money back?
You disappoint me, Ubi. I was really looking forward to The Division too.