More "Always On" DRM in upcoming Ubisoft games

[infohippie]

Fuck you Ubisoft. Fuck you.

Other people might not care, but I am not going to pay to be treated like a criminal.

The DRM doesn't work, it's cracked, the pirates know how to crack it now, From Dust is featured on torrents, it's a complete and utter failure and to persist with it is an act of such stupidity it's starting to cause me pain to have to re-iterate.

It doesn't work, it will never work, so fucking stop it already.

Fuck you Ubisoft. I will never buy your games as long as they continue to use this DRM. I will not pirate, buy new, or buy used, nothing. As for the games I have, I will not play them anymore. I want NOTHING to do with a company that is so willing to treat ALL customers like criminals just to try and stop a few pirates.

So, again, fuck you Ubisoft, I hope the games with the DRM tank.

Hear bloody hear. I haven't bought anything from Ubisoft since they started this bullshit, and I'm not going to buy from them for as long as it continues.

 

[Ickorus]

Eh, I just don't plan on getting anything from Ubisoft until they stop this crap, it's not so much that it's going to affect me really, it's just I don't like the way things are going and will do everything I can in order to not support it.

I mean, i've bought games I didn't think I would like in order to support the devs I think are doing stuff right so this is just that really.

 

[illas]

So, to summarize:
-Buy the game legally and you have to deal with draconian, intrusive, and inconvenient DRM.
-Pirate the game and you have to wait a few days after release but will avoid all of the above.

...and it's not on Steam.

Attention Ubisoft - when your copy protection hurts the people who actually bought your game more than the people who pirate it, you *really* need to reconsider your system and priorities.

 

[LordLundar]

So much derp.

Ubisoft should just save themselves some cash and stick to CD keys, everything else just makes everyone unhappy. I guess crackers can thank them for giving them a challenge to test their skills on, and whomever is programming the DRM for giving them a job. I can't imagine why anyone else would be on board.

I actually worked retail when they last did that for The Settlers 2 remake. Here's how that bundle of failure went down:

Failure 1: They shipped the games WITHOUT THE CD KEYS! Yeah, I don't mean a dijit or two missing, the ENTIRE code was neglected to be put in their copies.

Failure 2: Failure 1 wasn't noticed until almost a month after launch. Yes, we had copies of a game that couldn't be legitimately installed on our shelves for a month. No pull down order was given so we had to keep them up, despite knowing they couldn't work.

Failure 3: Their solution to the problem was to send out sheets of codes to their field reps on sticker paper and PUT THE CODES ON THE CELLOPHANE WRAPPER ON THE CASE! Now for those of you wondering what the issue is, here's a couple of points:
-First, anyone with a camera phone could simply walk up and take a photo. Now they had a
legitimate code with which they could use with a pirated copy (the disks had no other CP in place)
-Second, a legitimate cutomers buys the game and throws the cellophane away before they even get home. Whoops! They are now out of luck because UbiSoft now thinks they stole the game.

So, actual thieves get away scott free, while the real customers are now branded criminals because UbiSoft was too dumb to rub two pennies together.

 

[Jak2364]

Well, I'm glad I lost interest in anything Ubisoft had to offer since ACII. Stupid douchecanoes.

 

[DeepComet5581]

Besides, it'll all be cracked after 3 hours ANYWAY. It happened to From Dust. It'll happen to Driver: SF. It'll happen to Diablo 3 and it will continue to happen to others in the future.

I thought it took several months to properly crack Assassin's Creed 2.

I was released early March 2010, and took a month and a half [http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20003120-248.html] to crack.

Besides, AssCreed II appears to be the exception to the rule, as it was one of the first (If not the first) Ubisoft games to use that DRM, so it would have taken longer. However, after the crackers found out how to circumvent the DRM, they could do it much quicker next time, as is the case with From Dust.