Ubisoft Online DRM: It's Worse Than Expected
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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I give it less than 9 days for a host file crack, with my stupidly low knowledge of cracking all you have to do is add ubisoft to your host list? or a crack to intercept?
Nice one ubisoft, screw over the people who want to BUY your games, and leave pirates with a better version.
Nice one ubisoft, screw over the people who want to BUY your games, and leave pirates with a better version.
Well, another game I'm wont be buying. First I gave up on Bioshock 2 and now AC2. And it seems Splinter Cell: Conviction as well if it's still a Ubisoft game. And why is everyone ignoring the piracy on Xbox 360? More games are being pirated for Xbox 360 then for PC because PC doesn't get much games anyway. I hople pirates do their thing. They deserve it. Treating us with such disrespect like we're all pirates is not gonna win you points Ubisoft.
Hopefully that will happen. This won't really affect me, as I am a console gamer(I do want to be a console & PC gamer, though...Will get a laptop for gaming once I get a job & a driver's license) but I really am in favor of hackers right now on this subject.DarkSaber said:
I hope they do realize that a week after they release the game the pirates will find a way around this block resulting in more people pirating it so they can play offline.
So true. they'll turn around and go "poor sales were probably due to piracy - obviously we need to clamp down EVEN MORE!", and we'll be sat there either completely ignoring them, bemoaning their abject failure to do market research, or laughing it up an a shared version someone kindly removed the copy protect from. I know which boat I'd rather be on, and it's not one that Ubi woul like me to - then again, I doubt they like the idea of PC gamers being involved in any way anyway.phoenix352 said:
Wow, way to mis-lay the blame. How many games have you pirated? Hmm? Now, how many producers are assuming that you did? If the latter exceeds the former, you should be feeling at least a little indignant.oppp7 said:
Now, does a company treating you like a criminal make you feel happy about yourself? Do you like LITERALLY renting a game off a company for retail price? Would you happily vote to curtail your rights, so long as someone was telling you that it was to stop bad people? If you answered 'yes' to any of those, I officially have no respect for your opinion as a free-thinking human. Though I'm not going to take your rights away because of it. Unlike some organisations might...
A simple solution to all this will be to purchase the game, then download the link to the crack from your favorite torrent site. That'd make it legit, no matter what Boobiesoft says in their EULA. Then, when you install patches or whatnot, just replace the original executable from the disc, install, get the new crack, which would most likely come out on the same day, and voila. Lather, rinse, repeat, and so on.
What.
The.
HELL.
My oh my oh my...
This is truly appalling, and no way will PC gamers stand for it. Right? ...right..?
The.
HELL.
My oh my oh my...
This is truly appalling, and no way will PC gamers stand for it. Right? ...right..?
And what about in 5 years when they pull the server down and all your save games are gone and wow you can't play anymore because you can't freaking save.
I still play games from the early 90s sometimes, I'm okay with activation servers and so on, but mandatory online saves? get bent.
I still play games from the early 90s sometimes, I'm okay with activation servers and so on, but mandatory online saves? get bent.
this whole pc shutdown seems like an awfully convenient exit point with these major publisher/devs they claim piracy is the blame for the shitty game sales and then intentionally sand bag the game with DRM that hurts costumers so they can say they left the pc platform for a reason >.> .
Well I can't really add to the discussion properly without spewing more vitriol like a rabid dog, so I'll just say this: Fuck ubisoft. Fuck them in the ear.
no were all sitting on chairs...._Serendipity_ said:
and you know what will happen PC gamers gona cry about it then when the game comes out 80% of the the people gona pirate it to "stick it to the man" at which point NoobySoft will say they are leaving the pc platform because of the omgosh bad pirates who stole all their virtual non existent money
I loved the first AC, was going to pick up the second, but what is this shit? My internet connection is lousy, I had enough trouble getting Company of Heroes' godawful Relic online system to work, and now I have to be connected to the internet to play a single player game? Fuck that.
EDIT: Steam may not require the constant connection but its really trading one horrific set of DRM for another less instrusive one - at least Steam has an offline mode
EDIT: Steam may not require the constant connection but its really trading one horrific set of DRM for another less instrusive one - at least Steam has an offline mode
If they're going to do this they need to do it for 360/PS3 as well. Those systems see equal piracy numbers as the PC so there's no reason to single out PC users for this kind of punishment.
How much money do developers lose on the PC market anyways? I'd have to think a great majority of the money is made from consoles. And to do something like this is just batshit insane. I hate to say it because if I had a decent video card I know I'd be gaming on my PC, but it's the DRM that really keeps me away.