You can turn off the syncronization in the UPlay settings.

From your Ubisoft Connect dashboard you can download and install Ubisoft Connect on your PC. From there: Open the three-line menu in the top left corner of your screen. Select Settings. Under the General tab, uncheck "Enable in-game overlay for supported games". I didn't manage to find that setting on the site. I hope this works for every connected platform. Source, Ubisoft support.

Short Answer: No you do not miss any important Content if you skip the base Game. The only thing you miss out on are a few Achievements (i do not know which ones), and of course the Story. All you need to know: The Bleprints can be gathered after you played through WLONY. I myself missed some Blueprints before i went to NY and i got them after i finished WLONY by just completing the required Missions in WDC. Yes, the invaded Missions can be replayed once every Week. A second Character: I think if you really want to you can just replay the Base Game Story on a 2nd Character if you feel like you missed out on something. However im not sure how exactly that works so this might not be 100% correct.

had the same problem and found a workaround: just start the game and press shift+F2, then disable all notification types, crash the game and restart... should be fine now

There are some custom clients that try to solve this problem, for example this one: https://www.steamgriddb.com/manager (I'm not affiliated with it and not using it): Currently Supported Launchers: Origin Uplay Epic Games Launcher Blizzard Battle.net GOG.com It doesn't allow you to actually buy games, but you can browse and launch them from single place. Disclaimer: it's up to you to decide if you trust such services enough to install them / provide your credentials / grant file system permissions, see Malware.

Nope, sorry. I've run into this myself and you can't get the saved games from the Ubisoft servers, you will have to start anew with the campaign in offline mode to not depend on their servers which right now may be lacking stability. They are very well known for this DRM, see Assassins Creed 2, which unfortunately didn't offer an offline mode like HOMM 6.

Uplay is Ubisoft's (very lightweight) social network service for Ubisoft games. At the moment, it only tracks achievements and offers special unlocks & rewards for certain games. This is the closest I could find to a FAQ for the service. If a game uses Uplay, it is often built into the game, so there is no separating the two. However, you don't have to use it if you don't want to. As for DRM, that is usually a separate module in the game itself. As I recall, several titles have had the always-on DRM patched out after a few months. As for the data collection, the little bit you are talking about is less than a drop in the bucket compared to what some other personal computer games will send off to the developers.

Sadly, as support said, it's not possible. Steam and others do not share licenses between games, Valve just allows others to include their launcher and give an additional, separate license from their service for the game. Some games do have a third-party CD-key, but when included they're either automatically "redeemed", Steam will prompt at startup to copy the key so you can easily activate the game through the other service, or there will be a cd-key that can be found from the Library page of the game in the Steam client. Related answer about games being bought on Steam and using UPlay (now Ubisoft Connect) as DRM.

As far as I know, even for offline play you need to run Uplay (seemingly owning a game on Steam isn't enough grounds for Ubisoft to assume you probably got it legally), so you will also need an account. Steam can then be put in offline mode, too. According to Ubisoft's FAQ: As long as you have already logged in successfully once, the client is designed to switch automatically to offline mode if you do not have an active Internet connection or cannot connect to the game servers. Also, if you wish to force the client to start directly in offline mode, you can tick the Always start Uplay in offline mode box in the client Settings, or via the main menu by selecting Go offline. While in Offline mode, most features will be unavailable, but you can start your game from the Games tab as usual. Almost all games in our current catalogue can be played offline after they have been activated, providing they do not have any always online requirements, and your solo campaign will resume from the latest local save. An example: you can play Assassin's Creed Origins completely offline for up to 30 days, after which you'll have to sign in to Uplay again. Same goes for Odyssey. I have just tested playing Assassin's Creed II through offline Steam through offline Uplay, and that worked fine. Be sure to check for each game it's actually saving your progress while offline.

According to a Ubisoft employer in a Steam thread about the issue, Very sorry about this guys, these achievements are known to be a little glitchy at the moment. I've just mentioned this on another thread but the team are aware and are looking into it. For now, you can either start a NG+, quickly get through Siwa and head straight to The Hidden Ones DLC and re-do the missions. Or you can wait for a potential update in the future. We can't manually unlock the achievements i'm afraid so we don't have any further troubleshooting at the moment. - Ubisoft Support Team This was written on March 2, 2018. There is no follow-up on it. The solution offered there (the one you're referring to in your post) seemingly works for most people, however.

I had to learn this myself also, apparently if you ONLY have Steam games on your Uplay account, the UPlay client expects you to only play said games, and thus, only pruchasing games through Steam. It's an easy fix though. Go to https://store.ubi.com/ and login, here you can purchase new titles. When you first buy a title here, it'll unlock your account and you can access things like the store through the client.

A different approach from the other answer: if you get the augmented Steam addon, then any time you visit a Steam game page in your browser (but not within Steam), it will tell you if it requires any other launcher. [Edit] As mentioned in the comments, you can also see this in Steam (with no addons) at the bottom of the info sidebar on the game's store page

Yes assuming you've launched the game once, when you first launch a Ubisoft game that requires uPlay from Steam uPlay should be installed with it, an account must be created (or logged into), then uPlay will ask you if you're sure you want to link the game key to your account before you can play through just uPlay. Once that is done you should be able to sign on just uPlay remotely and play at a friends house etc You'll see a screen like this if it works but for Assassins Creed

Assassin's Creed Origins hasn't fully downloaded yet. Wait for Uplay to download all data, or continue the download of the game, and try again. It's a feature of Uplay to let you play games while downloading, by downloading a playable part of the game first (e.g. putting videos, textures, geometry etc. that will only show up later in the game at the end of the download queue). Uplay probably showed the message 'Ready to Play', which is not necessarily the same as 'completely downloaded'.

If you cancel the trial now, the trial will continue until the end date and then terminate. Upon the terminations, games downloaded via UPlay+ will cease working and do nothing but take space in your hard drive. It basically functions the same as any other subscription based system. However, if you do buy a game, that game will remain with you even after the subscription ends. This means you actually bought the game via store, rather than gained access through subscription. Source: https://support.ubi.com/en-GB/faqs/000045736 https://support.ubi.com/en-GB/faqs/45739/Information-about-the-Uplay-free-trial/

It's definitely possible, but don't just put your entire game folder under version control. Some advice: Git is not optimized for storing non-text files. It cannot calculate diffs for them and has to store full copies instead. So your repo will continue to grow significantly if you for example try to save bunch of textures there. Imagine having multiple copies of the same game on disk - effect will be like this. Sometimes games modify some files during run - some logs, configurations, saves. Don't version control them, otherwise you would have to commit these changes after each session. As an alternative you can store you mod folders separataly from the game itself and provide symbolic link from game folder to actual mod folder. Switching mods will be as easy as updating one link.

I could solve the problem. I signed in to my new Uplay account and started the game on Steam, then a message showed which asked me If I want to move the game to this account. Now it works!

Many (if not all) Ubisoft games on Steam actually are activated and launched through Uplay. This should be easy to find by viewing the store page and looking by the publisher info and game genres + peripheral and gameplay style tags. For example on the AC: Odyssey page it says: Requires 3rd-Party Account: Ubisoft Account (Supports Linking to Steam Account) You can also check PCGamingWiki's "Availability" table -- notice for AC: Odyssey it says that it's available on Steam but uses Uplay as DRM.

As Steam and UPlay are totally different platforms and do't share the same account, there is no way, that each platform could know about the games on the other one. Therefore my answer is, that you can activate the base game on both platforms. Also if that wouldn't be possible, then the game should automatically be in your UPlay library if you activate it on Steam.

Ubisoft never removed the DRM, they just made it less harsh if you get disconnected. It's still just as harsh on not being able to play while not connected. All the updated did was basically, instead of quitting the game when you get disconnected, forcing you to restart from last checkpoint, it now pauses the game until you get connection back, which means you restart from the exact same point. If you quit instead of waiting to reconnect however, then you must restart from the previous checkpoint as before.