Hacker Group Claims Real Ubisoft DRM Crack

[thePyro_13]

Good job pirates! If I ever buy AC2 I'll be sure to download their crack. I skipped this game entirely because intermittent Australian internet would have made this game a nightmare.

 

[tsb247]

As a general rule, I don't support or promote piracy. However, in this case I will make an exception. Ubisoft demonstrated a total lack of concern for legit gamers that were having trouble with their new DRM system. I'm glad to hear that someone has cracked the system.

On the other side of the coin, I'm sure Ubisoft will now make their next DRM ten times more annoying due to this system being cracked.

Who knows? Maybe the next step will be, "Pay by the minute," gaming. Ubisoft may charge you for every minute of gameplay. Laugh now, but mark my words. We may all be crying tears of sorrow for the lost world of PC gaming sometime down the line if this B.S. from game companies continues.

 

[Andy Chalk]

I've also explained multiple times and multiple ways in which steam is intrinsically different than out-of-the-box DRM schemes such as securom, tages, starforce, and ubisoft's folly. Encouraging further anti-steam quibbling would serve nothing.

No, you haven't. You've tried dancing around the fact that Steam is DRM by hammering on the point that being a different kind of DRM somehow makes it different than DRM. Not the same thing.

And really, nothing is going to be "served" here. You continue to insist that you have a god-given right to determine the value of games via "first-hand experience," which is utter nonsense, and thus we seem to be dead-ended. Believe it or not, I do understand where you're coming from and so I recognize that we're going nowhere with this. Maybe someday you'll change your mind, maybe not. I'll check back with you in a decade or so.

 

[Cynical skeptic]

I've also explained multiple times and multiple ways in which steam is intrinsically different than out-of-the-box DRM schemes such as securom, tages, starforce, and ubisoft's folly. Encouraging further anti-steam quibbling would serve nothing.

No, you haven't. You've tried dancing around the fact that Steam is DRM by hammering on the point that being a different kind of DRM somehow makes it different than DRM. Not the same thing.

And really, nothing is going to be "served" here. You continue to insist that you have a god-given right to determine the value of games via "first-hand experience," which is utter nonsense, and thus we seem to be dead-ended. Believe it or not, I do understand where you're coming from and so I recognize that we're going nowhere with this. Maybe someday you'll change your mind, maybe not. I'll check back with you in a decade or so.

So we're in agreement that steam is different. Just not different enough to qualify it as "not DRM" in your mind. Steam, in my mind, functions more as a digital retailer rather than an asinine program that exists only to annoy and impede paying customers(tages, live, securom, starforce).

With the rate at which "subjectivity" is used to dismiss arguments around here, its kinda... schizophrenic to claim "publishers/developers deserve money" as an absolute. Yes, they've exerted effort, invested capital, and spent time making a product, but if a game's quality is nothing but personal opinion, then how is anyone entitled to compensation for a product which an individual has yet form an opinion? I mean, once hype loses the ability to form your opinions for you (rare trait), all games become amorphous blobs of potential and one becomes remiss for not allowing them to prove themselves worthy of note... but does that mean one should blindly buy everything on the new release rack?

 

[Ilosia]

Hmm, if it really is possible to remove the DRM from legit copies of the game with the crack I might actually buy the damn thing after all.

 

[nipsen]

"created by a group calling itself Skid Row"

..rofl. "A group calling itself the 'permanent veto-holding members of the UN', recently called for a cease-fire in the Darfur region".

 

[Andy Chalk]

So we're in agreement that steam is different. Just not different enough to qualify it as "not DRM" in your mind. Steam, in my mind, functions more as a digital retailer rather than an asinine program that exists only to annoy and impede paying customers(tages, live, securom, starforce).

I don't think we ever disagreed about Steam being different. But what happens in your mind isn't relevant to the fact that Steam is DRM. Really, I don't know why you're continuing to argue this point.

With the rate at which "subjectivity" is used to dismiss arguments around here, its kinda... schizophrenic to claim "publishers/developers deserve money" as an absolute.

If you're going to take advantage of their work, then they do. If you don't want to give them money, then don't take advantage of their work. If you don't want to buy their games, then don't. But don't pirate them either. It's not subject or schizophrenic; "around here," we just think of it as not being a douche.

 

[CrafterMan]

Ahh irony sandwhiches, the tastiest out there.

Hahaha, I'm so glad I played this on ps3 and not pc, I mean come on, what is wrong with these distributors.

 

[Monstrion]

I had no idea Skidrow is a Hacker group. They never hacked anything as far as I know. Cracking is the proper name. Cmon, we are on gamer site, so lets get our terminology right.

Anyway, I am torn. AC2 is a good game so I wish they made fat piles of money with it, but the DRM makes me want to tell them to go F themselves.

add.
And no, they didnt hack Ubisofts site ... this from crack nfo

"While we worked on this release, we noticed that several news webpages, forums, blogs etc. posted information, including a screenshot of a Ubisoft server attack message, which showed our group name.
First of all, that picture is a fake, nor would any member of Skid Row cause such riot, as we're only here to compete with our game release competitors, nothing else."

 

[TerribleAssassin]

While this is the first traditional crack that has surfaced (And it is legit- Skidrow is tied for first as the leading cracking group), the game has been completable for weeks, albeit though server emulation, which is a little tricker than normal to set up.

I would like to point out the legit customers are STILL suffering through this horrible inconvenience, while everyone that was going to pirate it have only been delayed by this. Sure, Ubi gets a few more sales (VERY few), but realistically, pissing off all your customers, loosing gamer good will, and putting ridiculous amounts of cash into creating an inventive new DRM scheme can't possibly made it up, considering they will have to keep the servers running 24/7 FOREVER in order for people to continue playing the game. Not to mention the fact that it probably lost them more sales then it got them, considering the bad reputation the game has gotten as a direct result of this.

And for future games also, many people like myself won't touch a Ubisoft game while this DRM is still intact, this includes consoles.

Consoles don't have DRM, they have uPlay, where you unlock things for the game by doing things in the game your playin.

 

[geldonyetich]

Like any cracker group, skid just wants to make it's mark.

 

[sheic99]

While this is the first traditional crack that has surfaced (And it is legit- Skidrow is tied for first as the leading cracking group), the game has been completable for weeks, albeit though server emulation, which is a little tricker than normal to set up.

I would like to point out the legit customers are STILL suffering through this horrible inconvenience, while everyone that was going to pirate it have only been delayed by this. Sure, Ubi gets a few more sales (VERY few), but realistically, pissing off all your customers, loosing gamer good will, and putting ridiculous amounts of cash into creating an inventive new DRM scheme can't possibly made it up, considering they will have to keep the servers running 24/7 FOREVER in order for people to continue playing the game. Not to mention the fact that it probably lost them more sales then it got them, considering the bad reputation the game has gotten as a direct result of this.

And for future games also, many people like myself won't touch a Ubisoft game while this DRM is still intact, this includes consoles.

Consoles don't have DRM, they have uPlay, where you unlock things for the game by doing things in the game your playin.

That's not really the point.

 

[Atmos Duality]

no matter how you spin it, they are criminals, anti gaming activists, and I hope they all end there lifes as pathetic people starving on the street. I hate pirates, no matter why they do it. This debate has made me want to support ubisoft financial, even thought I have no interest in actually playing any games with this drm, I will be buying it just to support them.

No matter how you spin it, Ubisoft by selling a product (that you cannot return or get a refund on) that does not function under reasonable circumstances. In any other market, that is called a SCAM. Ie, "Nothing for Something".

Of course, I'm just pissing into the wind here; I have no intention of supporting Ubisoft in any way. I won't even play or pirate the game.
The best thing to do (in my opinion) would be for everyone to ignore the game entirely (no PR is worse than bad-PR in the world of marketing), but the world doesn't work that way.

In closing, I hope Ubisoft dies abandoned and alone, just like how they treat their customers!

 

[RelexCryo]

Theres another side to this that might warrant mention.

The actual game has been "playable" for about 3 weeks with a pretty ingenious DRM server emulator. This type of workaround is not up to the standards of the people actually cracking 90% of software. So while illegal copies of the game were playable, people were still working on stripping all of the DRM out of the game.

So, basically, its been completely cracked twice with two completely different methods. Pretty sure this is a first. Go ubisoft, you've made history.

This post is awesome.

 

[RelexCryo]

no matter how you spin it, they are criminals, anti gaming activists, and I hope they all end there lifes as pathetic people starving on the street. I hate pirates, no matter why they do it. This debate has made me want to support ubisoft financial, even thought I have no interest in actually playing any games with this drm, I will be buying it just to support them.

No matter how you spin it, Ubisoft by selling a product (that you cannot return or get a refund on) that does not function under reasonable circumstances. In any other market, that is called a SCAM. Ie, "Nothing for Something".

Of course, I'm just pissing into the wind here; I have no intention of supporting Ubisoft in any way. I won't even play or pirate the game.
The best thing to do (in my opinion) would be for everyone to ignore the game entirely (no PR is worse than bad-PR in the world of marketing), but the world doesn't work that way.

In closing, I hope Ubisoft dies abandoned and alone, just like how they treat their customers!

This post is also awesome.

 

[HentMas]

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I am familiar with Skidrow´s work, (mostly from posts in several different programmers forums) and from what i have heard he/they is/are higly regarded among those programmers because the cracks are clean and easy to use

who knows... it might be worth a look... i would do it but i have AC2 for the PS3

 

[The Cake Is Annoying]

I don't know if the claim is legit and I have neither Assassin's Creed 2 nor the patience necessary to dick around with warez sites and cracks in order to find out.

I can understand not wanting to break the law and bring possibly making some legal trouble for The Escapist, but without confirming the DRM has been cracked, isn't this just a rumour passing for news?

Its necessary for the dates that DRM is released and cracked to be confirmed by media if DRM is to be evaluated as worthwhile or not to gaming; how else with developers either face up to its constant failure or prove its effectiveness to gamers?

 

[s0p0g]

i can only congratulate and pay my respects to SkidRow if they really did it, because this f***ing stupid always drm is waht stopped my from buying it (and i really really want to play this game, since AC was - is - pure awesomenessness, in my eyes. i really enjoyed playing it and climbing up houses and churches and towers and stuff ^^)

@ Plurralbles: if i can verify that this crack actually works, then yes, i'll happily buy AC2 in my local store of choice. a fine addendum to my games collection, i hope.
got to google something ^^