1. Watch Dogs will require Uplay, even on Steam. One of the most annoying things I've noticed about Uplay is that if you don't close it after you quit a game, Steam continues to count the hours as.
  2. Uplay PC CD keys are unique and can only be used once. Once they are used, they are bound to the Ubisoft Account that was logged in at the time of initial activation. You do not need to create a new Ubisoft Account. If you are receiving this error, chances are you already have more than one Ubisoft.
  3. Yes, you need it. When you buy a game on steam you will need to activate it by logging into steam and redeem the code. Once you are done with that, in order to download the redeemed game you’ll need to install steam.

A company I’m working with sent me a redemption code for their new game on the Steam network. I’m a Mac guy, not a gamer. What do I do with it?

If you’re even a casual gamer, you know about Steam. It’s an amazing platform that lets you have all your games, all your saved game data, and all your buddies in one place, even across individual games. That’s how you can play The Sims 4, for example, as I’ve written about over on my dad blog.

Steam also works with Mac, Windows PC and Linux, so it’s impressively cross-platform. If you’re a computer gamer, it’ll run on your computer, and do a good job.

Like an iTunes Store redemption code, however, you can’t really redeem the Steam code without having Steam installed and running on your system, and without you then also signing up for a (free) Steam account. So let me show you how that goes…

Being a Uplay Client, you can download any game with ease in just single tap. Choose the game whichever you would love to download on your device and get it done with UPlay downloaded. Connect to UPlay PC: Once you download UPlay, you will be able to connect with any game player from all around the Globe. Here you will find CD Keys which can be activated on the Uplay software, available free from the Ubisoft website. After your payment, you will receive a Uplay CD Key which can be entered into the Uplay client. Once you have activated the license key with your account, you will. Dec 17, 2018 - For the EU folk, open your desktop client, you can get it there for free if the store doesn't work. I opened my client, clicked the Get It Now button, but it's asking me for an activation code? I was then able to download it in the client. Yeah, I should probably get around to playing that game. That and the.

To start, head over to Steam and click on that lovely download link (or just hit the one below):

Once it downloads, it’s a pretty typical Mac app installation process where you just drag the app into the Applications folder and it does whatever magic is needed on first launch:

You can do that!

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Now double-click to launch the app and once it’s done its initial data download from the Steam server, it’ll ask you to log in to your existing Steam account or create a new one:

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Since I have an account (on my PC), I’ll log in by clicking on “Login to an existing account”.

Then once I enter my account and password, it’s no surprise that, well, I don’t have much there as of yet:

Pretty sad, actually.

Now, finally, you can redeem the code that the company sent you. Click on “+ Add a Game…” on the lower left edge:

As you can see, choose “Activate a Product on Steam…”

Now you’ll have the chance to enter your redemption code, as I’m going to do with my review copy of the upcoming game A Golden Wake:

If You Have A Uplay Activation Code Do You Need A Download Game For Mac

(I’ve blanked out most of the code I used for obvious reasons, but it was in the AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC format)

Enter the code carefully, then click “Next >” to submit it to the Steam servers. If it works, you’ll see “Activation Successful!”

Almost done!

Click on “Next >” again to actually download the game:

I find that the time estimates for downloading software are very off-target. This game took about 45sec to download on my Xfinity connection, no complaints about that!

Finally, it’s installed and ready to run. Click “Play” and you’re in your new game.

Enjoy!

And when you’re done, do explore Steam a bit, especially the Steam store. Lots and lots of gaming goodness.

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I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you, Dave, for all your helpful information by buying you a cup of coffee!