I'd love to recommend that all MM fans rush out to buy this & ensure it is well supported & we continue to get more of these games that we love. Sadly, I have to warn people to stay away for now. I encountered a game-killing mainline quest bug which effectively means that the hours & hours of play that I have already put into the game have been wasted unless it gets fixed. But that's ok, because pretty much right thereafter I too fell victim to the "save games seem to have disappeared" bug so even if it does eventually get fixed, it appears the entire history of my play is irrevocably gone anyway.That's without counting the glitches trying to get a single-player game with zero online content to run through the compulsory Uplay client that Ubisoft insists on forcing upon people. And even if you get that to work, the first thing you are forced to sit through every time you load or quit the game is Uplay helpfully "synching your save games with the cloud" - which of course also fails but still makes you sit through three or four minutes of trying anyway. But again that's OK, because there's no point preserving my lost/corrupted save games anyway.
Oh yeah - not to mention all the spamming & phishing I have received since giving my (junk, for this very reason) email address to Ubisoft to register for Uplay. Any contention by Ubisoft that they even try to protect your data is not to be believed.
I expect that Uplay is Ubisoft's policy, but seems lose/lose: they spend money publishing a game whose fan base largely wants to just play single-player offline & is (justifably) reluctant to get sucked into their data pool, so nobody buys it & the game is a financial failure, so the fanbase gets no more games. Just mind-boggling.
