I'm so tired of uPlay and Origin. But uPlay currently takes the prize. When I upgraded my rig a few weeks back I backed up everything I usually do. Like entire 'My.' Folders, since most saves and configs for important games/programs are stored in My Documents or My Games etc.

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Also backed up quite a bit of other stuff ofc. One thing I did NOT backup however for obvious reasons was the entire Program files folder (or both of them including the x86 one), since that would be insane. Most programs didn't have anything overly important to save in their install folders anyway. How to spot a fake south carolina drivers license. Backing up game saves from Steam has never even crossed my mind lately, since pretty much every game I care about my progress saves to the cloud. I knew for a fact that I always saw both Origin and uPlay syncing my few important titles on there with their clouds every time too, so why bother with local backups, right?

Turns out uPlay cloud saves is a lie. It says it's syncing with the cloud, but it seems to be pretty much random bull, or it only transfers one way - to their servers. To get those saves back on a new rig seems impossible. Btw I'm almost not even gonna bother bitching about how pathetic it is that neither uPlay or Origin can simply scan a folder for a previously installed game, without guides on how to cheat the programs.

UPlay is by far the worst there tho, since you have to manually start a download, then stop, exit, delete folders and look up codes-names in the process. Ubisoft seems happy with this fix though, since they aren't helping. The save games, right, they are actually located inside the install folder for uPlay for their games. As in for example 'C:/Program files/Ubisoft/Ubisoft Game Launcher/savegames/random undecipherable code/unspecified number not saying what game it is/files named 1, 2 etc.' (no info anywhere on what the files are, no names, no titles). How anyone would think that is a logical place for that type of movable/backupable data today is beyond me.

That seems like something I would expect like 10 years ago. But the cloud should make this all needless anyways, so I contacted the support. And after a few very odd questions about if I did in fact manually back up all my saves, and I replied that that was what the damn cloud is for, I only got the solution to turn off cloud saves in uPlay from now. Is that Ubisofts way of saying 'we know, our cloud saves don't work - don't use it'? I have even read that for one of their biggest titles - Assassins Creed IV Black Flag - they turned off cloud saves themselves, since it wasn't working as intended. Seems they never turned it back on or fixed it. My uneducated guess is that Ubisoft hasn't figured out a way to tie those clouds down yet, they upload to them, but then they float away, and they are left standing there with sad faces all around.