Indie RPG Developer Details Why Ubisoft's DRM Will Be Effective
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I think this Vogel guy underestimates software pirates and hackers. The only thing this new DRM scheme will be effective in doing is driving away legit customers.
While keeping the format of the saves entirely backstage is pretty effective, a hefty but effective state save should be a simple solution.
Ubisoft also need to wake up and realise that less piracy on this occasion might not translate into more sales.
Ubisoft also need to wake up and realise that less piracy on this occasion might not translate into more sales.
Or, people will just not buy it. I'll wager they will lose more sales from this DRM than they would from pirates.
Number 2 is the easiest of all.
What mr goodman is forgetting is that adobe do almost exactly the same thing.
you get your serial, you then phone up adobe to get ANOTHER serial to go with it.
Piraes still had it cracked within a week, WITH full keygen.
As many have said constantly, it wont be hard to pirate it.
Example: You tell it it's connected to the internet, you tell it you're legit then you tell it that the "remote server" is a folder on your HDD. DRM foiled in 3 moves.
It's not just ubisoft who are under estimating pirates, it the escapist writers too who think this will actually work.
What mr goodman is forgetting is that adobe do almost exactly the same thing.
you get your serial, you then phone up adobe to get ANOTHER serial to go with it.
Piraes still had it cracked within a week, WITH full keygen.
As many have said constantly, it wont be hard to pirate it.
Example: You tell it it's connected to the internet, you tell it you're legit then you tell it that the "remote server" is a folder on your HDD. DRM foiled in 3 moves.
It's not just ubisoft who are under estimating pirates, it the escapist writers too who think this will actually work.
I'm sure as hell not buying *anything* that requires a constant connection. I'm moving to somewhere thats only got dial up ffs.008Zulu said:
And then they'll cite the high numbers of piracy and the lower numbers of Sales. Then Ubisoft will decide to either; try something more ridiculous, or abandon the PC platform.008Zulu said:
I'm really not sure what they hope to achieve with this.
Maybe, I'd like to see a dollar figure on what this little jaunt of theirs will/is/has cost.Calhoun347 said:
Actually I think the point is that parts of the game are not stored on your computer or on the disc, so this means you never have access to an intact product to crack. Even if you did so, you'd be missing information present on their servers. For example with the save games being stored on their servers you'd have to pretty much create a save game system.Hopeless Bastard said:
He might have quite a rep behind his name, but he is clearly amongst the people that keep on underestimating hackers.
All this accomplishes, as far as I'm concerned, is to motivate me to pirate these games rather than buying them, even if the games themselves turned out to be among the best games of the year, and would have been worth buying on their own merits.
But with this kind of shenanigans attached to them? Forget it.
But with this kind of shenanigans attached to them? Forget it.
Along with deterring...you know, most would-be legitimate buyers who know about the DRM.Tom Goldman said: