Ubisoft

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with Ubisoft, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 13 complaints

Long warning text shown with no way to click past it2026-04-16
Launcher pops up mid-gameplay and fails with an error when closing2025-08-15
Accessibility setup screams voice-to-text at users on launch and is hard to get through2025-04-15
Spends 15 minutes fighting the launcher before giving up on playing2024-01-20
Cloud saves overwrite other users' savegames and there's no way to restart The Crew2023-07-24
Forced online account sign-up blocks playing a game when connected to the internet2023-07-24
Users must log in every time, though the UI offers a save-credentials option that does nothing2023-01-11
Ubisoft client constantly needs an internet connection and is buggy2022-07-11
Couldn't recover login details and can't tell whether the account was deleted2021-12-27
Clicking the Blender article from the news page leads to a not-found error page2019-07-22
No email contact form to remove an address from someone else's account2016-03-05
Password manager feels dated and lacks usability compared to Dashlane2013-07-02
DRM processes take priority over the game, forcing manual Task Manager priority changes2010-03-08