Roughly one year ago, Ubisoft unveiled and released their subscription service, Uplay Plus. It launched with some fairly big issues, but it seems those have largely been fixed as of now. We haven’t heard a lot about the service since the original launch, but now you can get a chance to try it out for free.

Ubisoft has announced that starting today, you can use the service as a free trial for a large part of the month. After that, it will continue to be the regular price of $14.99 USD. As it stands now the service is only on the PC and you will need to use it through Ubisoft’s Uplay launcher. The service reportedly has access to over 100 games, including the top editions of their biggest titles like Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry. You can check out the details here.

You can use Uplay Plus for free until July 27th. This weekend, you can also check out Ubisoft’s Forward event for a look at their upcoming titles, which you can read more about through here.

Uplay Plus, Ubisoft’s premium subscription service for PC titles, has gone live worldwide. However, it’s suffering from a myriad of issues. Along with links to the service being effectively dead, the company reports that it’s facing heavy loads at the moment. Its teams are currently investigating the same.

However, another issue seems to be that some users are being charged for the first month despite it being a free trial. Though the official support page notes that a payment method is added to “prevent interruption of service after the free trial”. So it should only charge users after the free trial is over i.e. in October.

Despite this, some users reporting being charged all the same. The publisher is investigating this issue as well. It may take some time to iron out all the issues so you might want to hold off on accessing Uplay Plus until then. Stay tuned for more details on the same in the coming days.

Hey thanks for the report. Our teams are investigating this with priority. Apologies for the inconvenience caused. – Gumdrops

— Ubisoft Support (@UbisoftSupport) September 3, 2019

Hey thanks for the report! Our site is under heavy load at the moment, our team is looking in to it but I'd recommend trying again shortly. Apologies for the inconvenience. – Gumdrops

— Ubisoft Support (@UbisoftSupport) September 3, 2019

Payment will be taken at the start of the second month of your subscription, the first month is a free trial.

— Ubisoft Support (@UbisoftSupport) September 3, 2019

It’s not just Ubisoft’s games that keep getting leaked- their subscription services get leaked too. At their E3 2019 show though, Ubisoft formally announced Uplay Plus, their own subscription service, similar to EA Access and Xbox Game Pass.

Uplay Plus will cost $14.99 per month, and will give you access to Ubisoft’s library of games, their expansions, premium DLC, all their new and upcoming releases, and premium editions for all the games. In total, the service is going to launch with over 100 games. As for upcoming titles, these will, of course, include all of Ubisoft’s upcoming titles as well, including the likes of Watch Dogs Legion, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and more.

The service launches for PC on September 3, but those who sign up (which you can do here) between now and August 15 will get free access to it from September 3 through September 30. Ubisoft also confirmed that Uplay Plus will be coming to Stadia as well, some time in 2020. Take a look at its announcement trailer below.