Last Christmas I bought 2 copies of the division on Steam and gifted one to my son. I created a uplay account for him and all was well.
Today I found R6 Las Vegas 2 on uplay for a little more than £3 so I bought myself a copy and wanted to gift a copy to my son.
No can do. Uplay doesn’t support gifting. Fair enough. I logged to his account to buy it from there but the ‘shop’ tab is missing.
Turns out having all your games purchased outside of the uplay client, locks you out of buying directly on the client. I’m assuming that this cunning plan was devised by an infiltrator, otherwise I just can’t fathom how it came to be.
I’m guessing the real reason is that the client lacks some first purchase functionality, maybe something to do with payment method verification. Very poor I think.