Ubisoft Clarifies New Online DRM Scheme
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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This reminds me of the Spore fiacso from EA... If you were a pirate you downloaded and played spore 7 days before the official release.. DRM? LOL! I will not confirm or deny if I was one of them who played it, but I will confirm I saw with my eyes 6 days before official release, a 100% working, cracked copy of Spore on a machine that I do not own being played by someone other than me who had downloaded it from the internet.
I am not sure but I have this feeling the groups released it early out of spite.
I am not sure but I have this feeling the groups released it early out of spite.
So basically they are just using the same strategies any other cult does?
Not entirely shocked. Kind of standard practice.
Not entirely shocked. Kind of standard practice.
Ok cool, so as long as I don't quit. great... so when I alt+tab to try and fix the connection the game will crash - due to the top notch QA Quality these days - anyway.
don't get me wrong. I dream of the day where the internet is the rugged utility it should be, just as prevalent, cheap and reliable as electricity, but THAT AIN'T THE CASE! and I don't know what retarded game developer would even kid them selves into thinking that it was!
look, it's simple ubisoft. I WILL NOT BUY! I may have pirated (I wouldn't have, speaking hypothetically), but I DEFINITELY will not buy it with that in place. and I can guarantee all the pirates will be well aware of the limits of the net as well, and they CERTAINLY won't buy it! I would be willing to bet money that if in an alternate time line you released the game without ANY copy protection, you would make more money.
and even the 'mainstream' users that don't know or care about it, will come home, have it fail, and take it back. it will not work.
I mean seriously!? is all this just some highly convoluted way to scare us all off the PC so they don't have to develop for it anymore? because honestly, just saying "we ain't doing AC2 for the PC" would be less offensive. stil F#$%ING STUPID. but less so.
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oh yeah... FYI ubisoft, while I am a programmer, I have never tried to crack anything before, but even I can tell you that this could EASILY be circumvented with a network filter that simulates your server. just start up a program while your playing, easy, even easier than circumventing disc copy protection... seriously, do they judge the quality of DRM by how much it pisses everyone off? "hey what about this!? hmm, might work, should we do R&D? nah, just announce it, as everyone on the internet is a pirate, if they ***** about it, it must be good!!"
don't get me wrong. I dream of the day where the internet is the rugged utility it should be, just as prevalent, cheap and reliable as electricity, but THAT AIN'T THE CASE! and I don't know what retarded game developer would even kid them selves into thinking that it was!
look, it's simple ubisoft. I WILL NOT BUY! I may have pirated (I wouldn't have, speaking hypothetically), but I DEFINITELY will not buy it with that in place. and I can guarantee all the pirates will be well aware of the limits of the net as well, and they CERTAINLY won't buy it! I would be willing to bet money that if in an alternate time line you released the game without ANY copy protection, you would make more money.
and even the 'mainstream' users that don't know or care about it, will come home, have it fail, and take it back. it will not work.
I mean seriously!? is all this just some highly convoluted way to scare us all off the PC so they don't have to develop for it anymore? because honestly, just saying "we ain't doing AC2 for the PC" would be less offensive. stil F#$%ING STUPID. but less so.
EDIT:
oh yeah... FYI ubisoft, while I am a programmer, I have never tried to crack anything before, but even I can tell you that this could EASILY be circumvented with a network filter that simulates your server. just start up a program while your playing, easy, even easier than circumventing disc copy protection... seriously, do they judge the quality of DRM by how much it pisses everyone off? "hey what about this!? hmm, might work, should we do R&D? nah, just announce it, as everyone on the internet is a pirate, if they ***** about it, it must be good!!"