Hacker Group Claims Real Ubisoft DRM Crack
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Well the DRM worked until Assassin's creed 2 became cold news so I'd say the DRM was successful. On another note, the programmer's virtue of hubris is quiet evident in these hackers, I hope Zeus zaps them.
Also, gamers (unsurprisingly) are still assholes.
Also, gamers (unsurprisingly) are still assholes.
No matter what the DRM, hackers will always find a way around it. They're genuises at coding and they see it as an enjoyable challenge.
I have finished assassins creed 2 a week age, there is a server emulator out there.
every game with this drm can be "cracked" with this.
Since it isnt technically a crack up to now ubisoft was still able to claim that no working crack is out there.
I now kinda support the drm, if it worked for a whole month its not useless like the rest of the drm stuff.
But the pirated version is complete playable since over 2 weeks.
Not allegedly just now.
I do have the original version but i didn't play it, cause i have limited traffic, which kinda sucks.
Btw: did you know that you need to use a user mod the game to allow the use of the 360 wireless controller? Kinda odd since Ubisoft recommended the 360 controller for the pc version but where to lazy to even support the most basic controller. The wired one would work I heard
And you still have "pal bars" in the pc version to make the game 16:9, but not only on 4:3, on every resolution.
It's the most lazy pc port i have seen in a looong time. Maybe users will patch it eventually, like they hacked in controller support. (or patched out the drm)
every game with this drm can be "cracked" with this.
Since it isnt technically a crack up to now ubisoft was still able to claim that no working crack is out there.
I now kinda support the drm, if it worked for a whole month its not useless like the rest of the drm stuff.
But the pirated version is complete playable since over 2 weeks.
Not allegedly just now.
I do have the original version but i didn't play it, cause i have limited traffic, which kinda sucks.
Btw: did you know that you need to use a user mod the game to allow the use of the 360 wireless controller? Kinda odd since Ubisoft recommended the 360 controller for the pc version but where to lazy to even support the most basic controller. The wired one would work I heard
And you still have "pal bars" in the pc version to make the game 16:9, but not only on 4:3, on every resolution.
It's the most lazy pc port i have seen in a looong time. Maybe users will patch it eventually, like they hacked in controller support. (or patched out the drm)
Yes, it works. Played it today. My LEGIT copy of the game. Just got tired of the DRM. My gaming computer isn't always hooked to the internet and sometimes the connection snaps by itself.
(And I wanted to get up at Ubisoft's nose)
(And I wanted to get up at Ubisoft's nose)
The flaw there is that you assume the irate would be gamers here and elsewhere can speak for the pirates, or indeed, PC gamers as a whole - obviously we cannot. Now me, if I wasn't boycotting everything Ubisoft produces out of spite, knowing that a working crack exists would absolutely impact my decision to buy the game, since now I know that if I were to purchase it and install it, I can make the damn thing work like bloody single player games are supposed to damn it all.Seldon2639 said:
So yeah, if it weren't for the ideological stand I'm taking against the implementation of this DRM that can only be ended if Ubisoft reverses this policy themselves, I would go buy a copy of Assassin's Creed 2 now, and judging by the comments various individuals here have made, I'm guessing a fair number will be doing just that.
Pirates on the other hand were always going to pirate the game, their douchebaggery has nothing to do with the presence or absence of DRM, apart from the DRM preventing them from getting a full working copy for a while. And if doesn't even MATTER if piracy stays constant - a game pirated a million times that sold a million copies, assuming equal development costs and break-even points, has still done better than a game pirated 100 times that sold 100 copies. Units pirated do no equal losses incurred, all that really matters is how many copies you actually sell and whether inflicting horrible DRM on your paying customers will make THAT figure go up.
I posit that it does not.
I will consider buying it now actually. Hopefully they'll get one for splinter cell too - I really wouldn't mind about this shit DRM if Ubisoft didn't make such good games!
Good on Skid Row. I hate DRM. I still can't play Dead Space on my desktop computer at uni because the stupid DRM is automatically blocked by the university internet connection (something about ports that the university doesn't allow or something), so it can't confirm that it's an original copy. So no game for me. I had the game for 6 months before I could play it on my brother's laptop when I got home again.
Why is my Ubisoft employee Geiger counter ticking right now? You honestly want Ubisoft to have a reason to make more DRM like this. I have a slightly unstable internet and cannot play this at all. I also convinced 3 of my friends with similar internet problems to do not buy it.psrdirector said:
Hmmm, you couldn't be a ubi employee as this would be self sabotage. Surely you would want your company to realize their mistake and please their customers?
I meant "our" as in "the gaming community as a whole", not "the people on this site". But, my point is still the same. The fact that this crack will not increase sales, and will only increase pirating, gives more and more credence to the more and more annoying DRM things. It says to Ubisoft "so, once they can have the game without DRM, they just go out and steal it. Looks like we need more DRM". No one connects the dots of "if there weren't DRM, people would buy it", because now that there is no DRM, people are just stealing it.Gildan Bladeborn said:
Which will be dwarfed by the number of people stealing it, and will do nothing to persuade the gaming industry that we (as a consumer base) can be trusted to police ourselves. It only proves that they have to be harder and harder on us, since we don't buy games without DRM either, and it just makes it easier to pirate.Gildan Bladeborn said:
Even ignoring the whole "stealing is still wrong, and should be stopped" thing, your logic cuts both ways.Gildan Bladeborn said:
Ubisoft can just as easily say "a hell of a lot of people are going to pirate, and we can't stop them long-term. But, we also know that removing DRM doesn't increase sales (since there's no spike after the DRM-removing cracks, which would happen if people really did pirate just to escape DRM). So, the best we can do is to make sure that they can't crack it as long as possible".
We've shown ourselves to be an untrustworthy user base. Are we surprised we're being treated like it?