I believe you, but an online search on that makes it seem like that's a highly unusual problem and isn't normal. It runs fine for me and isn't any different than Steam.
Every form of DRM has given me hickups in the past, even Steam, and neither Origin nor Uplay has been any worse than Steam in that regard. There are horror stories for all of them and sometimes one or the other gives individuals a hard time, but overall they seem to be equally annoying for most people and pretty unobtrusive on the whole, at least as much as log in DRM clients can be.
When issues do crop up they are normally temporary and fixed by a patch or update, and prior to that have a workaround or fix that is easily done. Annoying, but everything still works most of the time.
I'd prefer to be able to play without any of them, but don't find any one more heinous or superior than the others as far as user experiences or ease of use goes. They're pretty much the exact same thing from different companies and for every horror story you hear about issues with one, the others have another from a different user who has similar problems.
Again, not saying it works perfectly for you, just that overall I don't see much evidence that it's functionally different than Steam or Origin and that other people have the same sorts of problems with those services too. For most they work as advertised without problems 99% of the time and work pretty much exactly the same way.
In my experience, the worst one that had the most troubles is extinct. GFWL used to give me fits with several games. Origin, Steam, and Uplay have for the most part run pretty smoothly without any major problems for years. Even when problems do crop up, fixes have been pretty easy. It doesn't seem like the big three annoying DRM clients are really that different from each other to the vast majority of users.
From what I gather it's just a matter of which one someone happens to be using when they encounter a problem that determines which one gets their personal hate. Understandable, but ultimately just luck of the draw and the nature of a constantly updated and online program. Sooner or later, something is going to get corrupted or an update is going to screw something up somewhere, and they are all prone to it pretty much equally as far as I know.
Every form of DRM has given me hickups in the past, even Steam, and neither Origin nor Uplay has been any worse than Steam in that regard. There are horror stories for all of them and sometimes one or the other gives individuals a hard time, but overall they seem to be equally annoying for most people and pretty unobtrusive on the whole, at least as much as log in DRM clients can be.
When issues do crop up they are normally temporary and fixed by a patch or update, and prior to that have a workaround or fix that is easily done. Annoying, but everything still works most of the time.
I'd prefer to be able to play without any of them, but don't find any one more heinous or superior than the others as far as user experiences or ease of use goes. They're pretty much the exact same thing from different companies and for every horror story you hear about issues with one, the others have another from a different user who has similar problems.
Again, not saying it works perfectly for you, just that overall I don't see much evidence that it's functionally different than Steam or Origin and that other people have the same sorts of problems with those services too. For most they work as advertised without problems 99% of the time and work pretty much exactly the same way.
In my experience, the worst one that had the most troubles is extinct. GFWL used to give me fits with several games. Origin, Steam, and Uplay have for the most part run pretty smoothly without any major problems for years. Even when problems do crop up, fixes have been pretty easy. It doesn't seem like the big three annoying DRM clients are really that different from each other to the vast majority of users.
From what I gather it's just a matter of which one someone happens to be using when they encounter a problem that determines which one gets their personal hate. Understandable, but ultimately just luck of the draw and the nature of a constantly updated and online program. Sooner or later, something is going to get corrupted or an update is going to screw something up somewhere, and they are all prone to it pretty much equally as far as I know.
