Although Origin gets markedly better each time I log in, incentivized by a free game given through the On the House or the desire to purchase a latest release, is still an unfortunate side effect of wanting to play the games EA keeps exclusive to its service. The two publisher mandated platforms are less desirable. Desura is home to all the Humble Bundle games that have not made their way through Greenlight. Of these platforms, 3 have a clear place in the world. Soon GoG's Galaxy will make my backlog of classics much less of a library and more of an active collection. Steam, Origin, uPlay and Desura are all installed on my gaming rig. However, with the dominance of digital distribution has also come a glut of digital platforms. With my overflowing backlog of games purchased in endless sales and bundles and most multiplatform games being available day one on PC, there has never been a better time to be a PC gamer. There are platform exclusives I am eager to play, but no one system has a critical mass of exclusive titles that demand a purchase. Most of the games I want to play are on PC. Nowhere has this been clearer to me than the ease with which I turned down current gen Black Friday console deals. In many ways we are in a golden age of PC gaming. I seriously can't believe I can't play a singleplayer game I bought through Steam without logging into Uplay's online service.Don't feel like reading? Enjoy this video analysis of the AC: Unity checkout flow I've done tons of searching and tried tons of remedies (restarting computer, resetting my password, changing IPv6 settings, etc.) all to no avail. However, even though I am logged in through the Uplay launcher, it still asks me to log in once I launch the game (and gives the same error message). I tried opening the game from Uplay directly. I've been trying this fix this instance of the issue all evening, and it still persists. I've had this same error message COUNTLESS times in other Ubi games like R6 and Watch Dogs, but it has never persisted past a few log in attempts. Each time I log in, however, It gives me the 'A Ubisoft service is currently unavailable' error message. A Uplay window opened and asked me to log in.

This evening, I attempted to open the game through Steam.

I recently bought Assassin's Creed: Unity via the Steam autumn sale, and I was having tons of fun until this issue happened.

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