I still raise my middle finger to Ubisoft. Fuck them. I haven't bought anything of theirs since Assassin's Creed (the first one), and I still don't plan on buying any of their products until they stop treating their customers like thieves.
Ubisoft Makes Tiny Tweak to Driver DRM
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Well thank god they don't make anything I like.
But as a PC gamer there you have many cracking/hacking options, they may not think I own the shit I buy, but I beg to differ.
But as a PC gamer there you have many cracking/hacking options, they may not think I own the shit I buy, but I beg to differ.
It is easy for someone like Penny Arcade to afford internet service that is a lot more dependable, given their long time career. I don't begrudge them that. They earned it. But it is also easy for such to forget where they came from. High bandwidth is much more prevalent, but it still comes with its issues, especially with more providers trying to leech their customers of more money with "internet caps." Having to be online all the time for those who have to deal with caps on their service turns into a very expensive proposition, one that shouldn't even be a consideration. But when you get a game that demands you be on all the time, it forces you to choose on that basis alone whether it is worth getting the game.Uber Waddles said:
There are a large number of these same people stuck with "cap" policies that don't have another choice in internet service. Either there is another that also carries their own cap or there just isn't another choice because the current buys up the competition or otherwise forces it out of business.
Consider someone who doesn't pirate, and appreciates the games that Ubisoft has delivered before. And yet because of circumstances beyond their control, they can either buy the game and either play it on an extremely limited basis, choose to pay more out of their budget that might otherwise go into savings, or they just don't buy the game. Games aren't that important in the long run and the wisest choice would be not to bother. It is in this case that Ubisoft is being ignorant and unsympathetic to their customer's needs.
Consider also that their Always On service is a system of servers having to serve each and every customer for every time they log in. That is basically the same service as what MMO games provide. Servers don't run on happy thoughts. They run on electricity and maintenance and the people to service them. MMO games can support that with subscriptions and microtransactions. I look at Ubisoft's model, and all I really see supporting maintenance of their servers is the one time payment people make to purchase the game. Consider that is money that is probably not going to the developers who put many months of work into the game. No matter how I look at it, this Always On system is a deficit budget that could already be hurting Ubisoft more than piracy ever did, and to me that just strikes me as moronic.
gotta love it when you force upon your paying customers so many draconian digital rights management protection software that being a little bit lenient one time is considered a godsend and good will gesture. Well fuck that, UBISOFT will still never see a dime from me.
Lucky that they don't have a single game coming out that i give a damn about.
Lucky that they don't have a single game coming out that i give a damn about.
You can play and save normally without having internet, you just can't launch without it. So if your internet connection disappears while playing you can still enjoy the full experience. Considering that some of their earlier games suffered from problems on Ubisoft's (their servers crashed because hackers attacked them because of their always on DRM thus making everyone lose their data since last save) side this is an improvement.manythings said:
OT: I think this is an improvement and wont complain. Most of the time I can get a connection strong enough to get me on the escapist and that should do to launch a game too. Still... I'm not that interested in Driver though I enjoyed Driver 2.
It's the same DRM as was originally proposed by EA for Mass Effect on the PC, only more. That DRM threatened a "phone home" check every so often, but not every time. This is a phone home check every damned time.
And for those who seem stuck on this whole "everyone has the internet" thing, you are completely missing the point. Not only are you wrong, and not everyone (even every gamer) has reliable internet, but the mere fact that something like this is required is the sticking point. Supporting this DRM is supporting bad design, a deliberately engineered point failure that serves no purpose related to the actual function of the game. It's crappy design, any engineer will tell you that. You try to remove point failures, you don't add them. Bad design shouldn't be rewarded, simple as that. That's not even getting into the consumer rights issue, which is even more important.
And for those who seem stuck on this whole "everyone has the internet" thing, you are completely missing the point. Not only are you wrong, and not everyone (even every gamer) has reliable internet, but the mere fact that something like this is required is the sticking point. Supporting this DRM is supporting bad design, a deliberately engineered point failure that serves no purpose related to the actual function of the game. It's crappy design, any engineer will tell you that. You try to remove point failures, you don't add them. Bad design shouldn't be rewarded, simple as that. That's not even getting into the consumer rights issue, which is even more important.