Ubisoft Apologizes for DRM Troubles With Free Games
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The good Sands of Times series or that piece of shit they released a few years back?Andy Chalk said:
But you know what I want to play? Assassin's Creed 2, suck it Ubisoft, your experiment has failed by punishing your real fanbase over trying to punish the fanbase who don't give 2 fucks about your company to begin with, good job.
It's like they're a parent who pays attention to an evil child while ignoring the good child.
This is a lame attemt by UBI. It does nothing about the problem. I don't think I like any of their games anyway.
As a network engineer and IT professional, I make a living fixing those sorts of problems, and *I* think the DRM, strictly from a technical perspective, is a disaster waiting to (or actually has) happen.Callex said:
Ubisoft is trying to keep its customers on board with this system so they can legitimize it.
If enough people buy into it, they can encourage others in the industry to adopt the same strategy, at which point it would be very difficult to legally protest. This all nothing but a bid for control over the customer's spending habits, ultimately, of which piracy happens to be a part of.
In the long term, this "Free game" bribery has nothing to do with keeping the customer satisfied.
While some people are blowing the matter out of proportion, the principle of the matter is that it is a business that treats its customers like criminals, and isn't actually selling a product in a product-centric market.
I think you misunderstand, a majority of people in this thread are bashing it. I'm not, because as you put it, it's "My fault" for purchasing it.Abedeus said:
I completely understood what I was getting myself into. It really isn't that bad, unless of course you have no internet connection, and in this day and age there is no excuse for not having one.
Im not one to follow the hordes of people ready to jump on the bandwagon for a pointless cause. I have only witnessed one occurence where a Publisher has listened to the community and outcry and reversed the decision, and that was the king of DRM, Gabe Newell. You can't change something by simply bludgening people with your own ideas or views.
I enjoy AC2 and AC and lots of other games with forced third party software/DRM it doesn't concern me that there are like minded people that will do anything to play the game they want too. We are enjoying it.
A loud majority on the internet really isn't a majority at all. xD
The best way to compensate for this is by removing the DRM altogether. EA did that when their DRM failed miserably. Ubisoft should as well.
Most likely, they're only giving out free games to a select few people... just enough individuals to seed the news that some people got free games and make Ubi seem slightly less stupid and uncaring.
I still stand by the position they're probably lying that the outages were even caused by "attacks". Nobody's been arrested or connected with it, and Ubisoft has every incentive to lie about that. Being vulnerable to a malicious DDOS is a lot less embarassing than having such inadequate server backends that normal use IS a DDOS.
They've really just screwed this up unilaterally. These games were protected for a whole damn month and the sales aren't even appreciably different from any other game. It doesn't help, certainly, that Ubisoft got all of this bad publicity for the DRM... especially after already spending years cultivating sentiments among gamers that their company is endemically incompetent.
Ubisoft is the sort of company where, if you're developing a good game for them to publish... it succeeds _despite_ their involvement, not because of it.
I still stand by the position they're probably lying that the outages were even caused by "attacks". Nobody's been arrested or connected with it, and Ubisoft has every incentive to lie about that. Being vulnerable to a malicious DDOS is a lot less embarassing than having such inadequate server backends that normal use IS a DDOS.
They've really just screwed this up unilaterally. These games were protected for a whole damn month and the sales aren't even appreciably different from any other game. It doesn't help, certainly, that Ubisoft got all of this bad publicity for the DRM... especially after already spending years cultivating sentiments among gamers that their company is endemically incompetent.
Ubisoft is the sort of company where, if you're developing a good game for them to publish... it succeeds _despite_ their involvement, not because of it.