New Ubisoft PC Game DRM Requires Constant Internet - WTF

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So they force you now to be online all the time regardless if youre playing a single or multiplayergame ? Cant say I am happy about that. I dont know how its for you but I will forget any Ubigames from now on. I dont want to be online all the time with some software that is conected with a server and I want the save games on MY computer not stored on some server. Is the server down you cant play. Steam has at least a off-line modus.

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The first point Ubi makes is that they intend for the servers to stay up. "Say in 5 years someone who bought Assassin's Creed 2 wants to go back and play it, the hope is, the plan is that we'll be on Assassin's Creed, I dunno, 3, 4, 5, and the servers will still be there to serve those new games," explains their spokesperson. "They'll also be able to serve the old games." But Ubisoft have the ability to patch the DRM out of their games. "If for some reason, and this is not in the plan, but if for some reason all of the servers someday go away, then we can release a patch so that the game can be played in single-player without an online connection. But that's if all of the servers are gone."

They think and hope ? Thats not a good start here. As BN said once. Its better if the whole gaming market would just simply colapse.

So piracy is a huge problem? Sure no doubts about that. But might it not be also that they release many crapy games in a short timeframe and people simply feel no need to buy it and thus thats the real reason why so many loose money ?


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Just more idiotic ideas for PC games to avoid piratism, while they only avoid buyers and provocate pirates (heh heh hee pirates) to go and crack it.
 
UnidentifiedFlyingTard said:
they already cracked that DRM so it doesn't matter anymore.

but it is still a fucking horrible idea.
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Hacked or not. The idea alone is ... wrong.

Anyway. I dont think it is good that its already hacked eventualy cause if they now dont have success with game sales guess what they will blame ... sure not their system.
 
Doesn't matter, they're going to be run over by Steam due to poor product quality.
 
that anyway in the long run Steam is so far the best choice (and I have to say I dont like Steam)
 
What's wrong with Steam? I've never had any issues with it, and they regularly have sales.

Ubisoft's client. Market Darwinism; companies with poor products deserve to fail. It's just like the car industry.
 
I need advice. I refuse to support such a system, but pre ordered a copy before i knew about it about 4 or 5 months ago. Totally forgot and now i got a call telling me its in. Do i get it or ask for me deposit back?
 
victor said:
What's wrong with Steam? I've never had any issues with it, and they regularly have sales.

Ubisoft's client. Market Darwinism; companies with poor products deserve to fail. It's just like the car industry.
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Its more cause the way Steam started to mess with its costumers and users abusing them as "beta testers" (hence why I waited almost a year before using Steam). People got all kinds of issues ... some even crashed computers. But well.

On the other side is Steam just a very very very (did I said very?) comfortable form of "DRM". And I fear what might happen from all this in the future. Its already now that some games - not steam games though just in general - lack support for modifications or any kind of dedicated server. Though why a company isnt offering that is something I will never understand how can you make a multiplayer game on the PC and NOT give the option for dedicated servers ?
 
I think that's more an issue with the developers and publishers than with Steam. What do you mean with "comfortable DRM"? I've never felt a need to copy any of my games on Steam, I can download and run them from a different computer.
 
victor said:
What's wrong with Steam? I've never had any issues with it, and they regularly have sales.
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My main problem with Steam is the fact that it exists. Why the hell does a user need a stand-alone application just to install and play games they legitimately own? Pretty much all "good" features of Steam - game downloads, sales, patching - are possible with an ordinary website. Therefore, its only purpose of existence is to annoy people with DRM, which makes it deserving of all kinds of hate.
 
Silent Hunter 5 is already cracked, problem solved. Ironic how pirates are actually helping the honest consumer in this case :)
 
Wow. That's fast.
Well, I'am glad that awful piece of crap DRM was cracked, constant internet access to play a single player game is moronic at best.
Atleast now someone might be able to reliably play the game that they legally bought.

Steam I can barely tolerate, as I use the OFFLINE mode, which for me actually works for most of the time, and since I can download games I own using it. It's still annoying as hell though when it occasionally decides to simply not work at all.

Is it too much to ask to just able to play my games without having to start an extra program that might or might not work as intended ?
 
Me too. Thankfully, I can't even recall the last time I held an optical disc in my hand.
 
Ratty said:
victor said:
What's wrong with Steam? I've never had any issues with it, and they regularly have sales.
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My main problem with Steam is the fact that it exists. Why the hell does a user need a stand-alone application just to install and play games they legitimately own? Pretty much all "good" features of Steam - game downloads, sales, patching - are possible with an ordinary website. Therefore, its only purpose of existence is to annoy people with DRM, which makes it deserving of all kinds of hate.
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...I actually face palmed, I'm not even kidding.
 
And yet again a thread on DRM that skirts dangerously close to piracy talk. We don't care whether or not this shit gets illegally cracked and we don't care how you can do it or if you did it.

Ratty said:
My main problem with Steam is the fact that it exists. Why the hell does a user need a stand-alone application just to install and play games they legitimately own? Pretty much all "good" features of Steam - game downloads, sales, patching - are possible with an ordinary website. Therefore, its only purpose of existence is to annoy people with DRM, which makes it deserving of all kinds of hate.
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Publishers need a form of control over their products for digital distribution to work. As long as no alternative pops up, Steam will have to do.
 
Then why does my physical copy of a non-valve game need to use steam, or for that matter, my physical copy of Half-Life 2 ?
I would understand having use steam if I had bought the game online, but when I have to use steam to play a game I bought from a store, it's an unnecessary inconvinience.
 
Sander said:
Publishers need a form of control over their products for digital distribution to work. As long as no alternative pops up, Steam will have to do.
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Are you suggesting DRM free digital distribution doesn't exist or isn't rentable ?
Wow, that's ballsy...

Pretend that DRM helps companies gain more money is okay, even if subject to controversy (BN says he has data he can't show and that curiously has never been published).
But to pretend that they wouldn't make money without is just absurd...
Piracy has been a fact for years, yet people still buy games, go to the cinema, and buy music. Seriously, get up with the times.
Studies even shows that the people who buy games and music ARE the very same people who also pirate.
 
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