Ubisoft Online DRM: It's Worse Than Expected

[Jadak]

How does this fight Piracy? All this does is guarantee that if I ever wanted to play Assassins Creed 2 on the PC, I'll pirate it out of spite.

More likely I'll just not play it, damn boring game, and I don't really need it for multiple systems anyways..

 

[aaaaaDisregard]

All hail EA with their project $10!
It wasn't that draconian in the first place (one time DLC activation isn't that bad, especially since one can play Mass Effect 2 or Dragon Age without DLCs at all), but now I see Ubisoft's shit and hope EA will drive those idiots from videogame market.
Splinter Cell Conviction and Assassin't Creed 2? Oops, my money will go somewhere else, perhaps to Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Brink and Metro 2033. Or some Mass Effect 2 DLCs and all listed above. Will play AC2 and SC:C anyway as soon as they hit torent trackers - absolutely not sorry for that.

 

[jasoncyrus]

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.

Less than a week probably if its anything like Adobe's online drm. Now I have a reason to pirate AC2 since I dont have a constant net connection (lots of travelling about with laptop)

 

[CD-R]

As a PC gamer, does Ubisoft not realize we are an unforgiving bunch? Do they also not realize we complain like there's no tomorrow?

Yeah! We should boycott the game! That ALWAYS works.

No you should go on Amazon.com and write 1000 1 star reviews complaining about the DRM and threatening piracy. That has actually worked in the past. It's what people did when Spore came out and most people credit it for finally getting EA to pretty much drop the whole DRM thing on their future games.

 

[Therumancer]

"Hey let's give singleplayer games all of the disadvantages of MMORPGS!, and tout it as a positive thing".

Honestly, I see one of the major points of having a single player game to begin with is NOT needing to be connected to the Internet. I think this anti-piracy stuff is simply ridiculous and they should simply suck it up, let's be honest, if the pirates haven't put these companies out of business over the last few decades of whining, it's not going to happen now.

That might seem rather flip, but to be honest that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long line of ridiculous attempts to create PC Game security.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

I can't even COMPLAIN, there's no way a company could make a move this dumb and be bothered to actually care about what we think.

I thought Day 0 DLC was bad, but oh this is so much worse.

 

[Rednog]

I'm really getting sick of the mistreatment of the PC fanbase, I mean just look at Bioshock 2's release last week, Games for Windows Live was such a great idea to solve piracy....except the fact that it decided to corrupt pretty much everyone's gamesaves like 24 or so hours after release. Yea great job on that guys, I really enjoyed playing through 90% of the game when I got home, taking a nap, and then having to replay the game again. Oh and I really loved the game crashing every time I received an achievement I already had.

I'm sorry but they really need to realize that they are most likely forcing some legitimate customers towards piracy instead of turning pirates into legitimate customers.

This tacked onto the fact that I'm still sick of a lot of PC games being released months after their release on the 360/PS3...

Also I'm still really weary of this online saves on another server thing, I can just imagine a few years down the line, lol sorry servers are closing, you can never play this game again. Have a nice day.

 

[DominicxD]

lol wut

You're all acting like they've just told you to fuck off and they're not releasing the game on PC anymore. Wtf are you complaining about? You have an internet connection so you have fuck all to worry about. >_<

 

[insanejigsaw]

Ironically while reading this my internet went out...and what are they thinking?

 

[insanejigsaw]

Edit: double post

 

[Wicky_42]

Well, I guess I could blame Ubisoft, but it's their product that's stolen. I hate pirates.

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.

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...

I buy consoles versions. But it's their product and they can decide what to do with it. Yes, I'm partially the victim I suppose, but they wouldn't be doing this if the pirates hadn't stolen it. Therefore, I blame the pirates.

Well, no-one's stolen it yet, so Ubi's kinda jumping the gun here. Sure, it's their software so they are entitled to do as they wish, but outright hostility to their customers? I think all gamers have a right - maybe even a requirement - to be outraged at being treated like that. Do they seriously think that this 'online only' system is going to be an effective anti-piracy measure, when countless other DRM systems have fallen before, doing little more than stoking gamers' ire and hurting legitimate customers?

Fuck 'em - if this isn't a clear advert to move to piracy I have yet to see one.

 

[snow]

Man, although I have AC2 for the PS3, stuff like this just makes me ticked... I always legally buy everything when it comes to the computer, and anti-piracy things create more hassle than their products are worth... I couldn't use photoshop for 4 months after I bought it because of this bull shit... Those 4 months I couldn't help but think about the thousands of users downloading the same exact program that I purchased each day and using it... EACH DAY...

A year and a half later? I got some use out of it, but of course my laptop screen died, so when I went to move it over to another computer as instructed, I'm back in the boat I was in a year and a half ago...

Freak'n hell man.

it's the Stuff like this that pushed me away from being a pc gamer...

Steam was a horrible idea... I hate having to use it... Shame on ubi for thinking they can do something similar.

It's like having a janitor watch you take a piss to make sure you don't get any on the toilet seat!!

 

[Aanorith]

That is just stupid. No further comment.

 

[Sallix]

well there goes the thought of me buying AC2 anymore...

 

[WafflesToo]

I have never experienced a problem like this on a console. Just saying.

EA is shutting down servers on a dozen XBOX 360 games over the next two months. You can't hide on consoles any more than you can on PCs.

 

[Rednog]

lol wut

You're all acting like they've just told you to fuck off and they're not releasing the game on PC anymore. Wtf are you complaining about? You have an internet connection so you have fuck all to worry about. >_<

You have to realize that not everyone has a solid broadband connection. Hell, I live in eastern europe and 90% of the people that I know have less than 1-2mb/s during the early morning and day, but at night I've seen it drop to 30kb/s. I seriously doubt the back and forth transfer of data isn't going to be a complete a total nightmare.
The simple fact that you have to be constantly connected, any interrupt means direct game over game reverts to last save is huge. Also people do have random disconnects for various reasons. Hell playing WoW for 5 years every raid there is at least 1 or 2 people that just have a router reset or their net crash.
And I'm pretty sure there is going to be a lot of joy (sarcasm) from people who live in college dorms who are behind all sorts of fire walls or have blocked ports.

 

[aPod]

Ubisoft, will not be seeing any of my money untill they get thier head out of thier asses.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

So, you won't be able to play a game until you reconnect to the internet or maintenance is done.

Big deal? Are we games so pathetic that we need to be playing our games, and the occasional disconnect makes us wet ourselves?

Although this does REALLY suck for people whose wireless internet is shoddy. Like mine. But my PC is where the internet is hardwired to...And isn't that the case for most people?

 

[Joey245]

WHAT?!?

Meh, I wasn't THAT interested in AC2 anyways.

 

[oppp7]

Well, I guess I could blame Ubisoft, but it's their product that's stolen. I hate pirates.

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.

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...

I buy consoles versions. But it's their product and they can decide what to do with it. Yes, I'm partially the victim I suppose, but they wouldn't be doing this if the pirates hadn't stolen it. Therefore, I blame the pirates.

Well, no-one's stolen it yet, so Ubi's kinda jumping the gun here. Sure, it's their software so they are entitled to do as they wish, but outright hostility to their customers? I think all gamers have a right - maybe even a requirement - to be outraged at being treated like that. Do they seriously think that this 'online only' system is going to be an effective anti-piracy measure, when countless other DRM systems have fallen before, doing little more than stoking gamers' ire and hurting legitimate customers?

Fuck 'em - if this isn't a clear advert to move to piracy I have yet to see one.

No, because it's still stealing. It's their product, they can do what they want with it and decide how much people get to use it. If you have a problem with it then boycott it. Piracy will just make them react more harshly to it.
And no, you can't justify stealing unless it's a life or death situation.