In 1986, the Guillemot brothers founded Ubisoft as a videogame publisher in France. The popularity of this company grew very quickly, prompting the opening of offices all over the world. It has now grown to the fourth largest videogame corporation and expanded its operations even further: online. Although Ubisoft develops games for a variety of platforms, many of their PC games can be downloaded from UBI Shop, their digital distribution system.

UBI Shop provides a unique look on its website that reflects a futuristic look popular among gamers. The dark shades of gray and black help compliment various screenshots that provide links to the many different titles available for digital download. Ubisoft allows users to browse through titles that are currently available as well as preorder those with a future release date. Some of the more popular games are featured on the homepage with brief animations providing descriptions.

UBI Shop provides detailed information for each product on their respective pages. Videos, overviews, screenshots, similar games, and much more are all provided to help gamers ensure that they are selecting the right games. They even provide many in-game extras that cannot be found anywhere else, such as special weapons and even additional levels. If you user decides to buy online, Ubisoft provides a quick method for obtaining the digital download by providing a link that displays the title’s price on its webpage.

UBI Shop also extends its digital download experience by providing users with social capabilities. This allows users to collaborate in online games, share their achievement score, and even earn free content through the Uplay network. This service can be activated through the website and even from within some of the games. This helps improve the experience for players that would like to connect with others while also enjoying a great game.

Despite these features, many complaints have been issued against Ubisoft’s digital download service. Its digital rights management system has come under strong criticism in that it will not allow gamers to play unless they are online or connected to the servers. This would lead to lost progress if the Internet connection was lost while playing, and would render many games useless while Ubisoft’s servers were down.