Poll: Total Bullcrap DRM: UBI Fail.

[pcload1etter]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=235596 b/w/o http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/2/19/

First of all making all games require an internet connection at all times is complete total and utter bullshit. I have not pirated a game since my college days and this year alone have purchased $200 worth of PC games. (Through Steam)

I travel quite a bit and play games in the airport/on airplanes/in hotel rooms sometimes I don't have internet or have internet that's pathetically slow and I don't bother with internet connections.

UBI has gone way to far trying to protect their games in a way that
A) is going to get hacked anyway
B) just pisses off legitimate customers

I will never buy an UBI game (thank God I haven't picked up Assassins Creed 2 yet) due to this total crap policy.

what's funny is UBI says

So what's in it for gamers?
Ubi say there are three advantages to their online services. The first: you don't need a disc. The second: that you can install the game on as many PCs as you like, as many times as you like. And the third: the automatic uploading of savegames to Ubisoft's servers.

Steam already offers options 1 and 2. The third option is stupid. The fact that there is no offline play is pathetic.

Thoughts?

 

[Hiphophippo]

I find it ironic that this plan punishes people without steady internet the most. You know, the same group of people most unlikely to pirate anything.