This is the part that is holding me up. Is it actually the same product? The version on Steam comes with server hosting, achievements, voice chat, etc. If I purchased the game through Uplay, would I still have access to those services on Steam? For example, many years ago, I bought “Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale” at Walmart, but it basically just came with an asset disc and a code to register the game on Steam. So buying it at Walmart gave me access to the same features as if I’d bought it directly from Steam. Does Uplay do the same thing?
Versions bought outside Steam have no access to Steam services. The closest you can get is manually adding the game to Steam, and it would account for the hours spent in it and let you use Steam Input, which is completely local.
But in many cases, it is the same product because things like online gaming don’t go through Steam servers other than perhaps serving the Steam friend list, e.g. BG3 online coop works across GOG, Steam, and consoles, and obviously the servers aren’t hosted by Steam.
This is the part that is holding me up. Is it actually the same product? The version on Steam comes with server hosting, achievements, voice chat, etc. If I purchased the game through Uplay, would I still have access to those services on Steam? For example, many years ago, I bought “Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale” at Walmart, but it basically just came with an asset disc and a code to register the game on Steam. So buying it at Walmart gave me access to the same features as if I’d bought it directly from Steam. Does Uplay do the same thing?
Versions bought outside Steam have no access to Steam services. The closest you can get is manually adding the game to Steam, and it would account for the hours spent in it and let you use Steam Input, which is completely local.
But in many cases, it is the same product because things like online gaming don’t go through Steam servers other than perhaps serving the Steam friend list, e.g. BG3 online coop works across GOG, Steam, and consoles, and obviously the servers aren’t hosted by Steam.