Far Cry 3 retail and Steam

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So I am a little confused about Far Cry 3. I was under the impression that there was no "key" version of it, but I stumbled across a few thing that made me realize that isn't entirely true.

The first thing is I noticed amazon has a "Steam DRM" buy option for this game. It only has 6 reviews where the regular drm has over 120, so maybe this option was recently added or something ? Though some of the reviews on both versions say that the Steam DRM version still just gives you a uplay key regardless. I'm not sure how true that is.

I also found a steam cdr for the retail version and even a key for it to prove they exist XAG6D-K67W7-GCBRL

So can anyone explain this? Is amazon exclusively selling steam keys, are all retail versions activating on steam now, or what's the deal?

12 years ago*

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ThirdSketch

The game isn't Steamworks as far as I know... But Amazon is selling Steam keys sometimes, even if the game isn't Steamworks.

12 years ago

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LucasC

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Steam don't gave me a uPlay key for the game at all. Gave me a key for Deluxe. Anyway it's always better have it on steam :p

12 years ago

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Oksymoron

Retial copy of Far Cry 3 needs uPlay only, I have it and I know it. There's no retail steam version. Maybe just amazon is selling FC3 with this DRM, They do that with almost every Digital game, Max Payne 3 for example.

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twistedmetalero

thanks for far cry 4 beta

12 years ago

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jatan11t

(Super Moderator)

Only the version labelled steam is a steam key. The other DRM is for UPlay only

12 years ago