Ubisoft 'always on' DRM hated, hacked - circle of life continues

Damn, corrected by a little girl!!

You win this time grammar and Rudy!!!!

Yay! I wanna give you a hug and an order of mozzarella sticks!

Hey I want mozzarella sticks too.

But Assassin's Creed 2 is also on Steam and still with the DRM. : /

nah man.

i still don't think it should be pirated, Ubisoft will hopefully remove the DRM, now that it can be easily patched in, they have removed DRM before, and other publishers also do it, like EA.

I still stand by what i said, remove the DRM and i will buy it instantly.

Do not pirate such a great game.

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But seriously, that's not a viable model. You're also deluding yourself if you think any publisher is going to pull out of the PC market. Given how similar the 360 architecture is to the PC, they'd be fools not to take advantage of quick and dirty ports no matter how much they whine about piracy.

And really? What planet are you from where a media industry gets so fed up with consumer behavior that they take their ball and go home? No, you evolve or die. Music is purchased almost universally now via digital distribution, when a few short years ago Sony was trying to put rootkits on our computers.

I should charge for this advice, but I'm going to give it to you for free today only, game industry: People go down the path of least resistance. You can use that simple fact of human nature to your advantage like Steam does, or you can completely ignore it and become a laughing stock like Ubisoft's PC game division.

Here's the acid test: At the end of the day, look at your anti-piracy measure for your new Game X. Ask yourself, "is this easier or more convenient than typing 'Game X torrent' into Google?" If the answer is no, then welcome to PC game publishing since the dawn of the internet. If your answer is yes, then congratulate yourself; you just made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

you are on serious drugs man, if all that crap were true then no one would be making money on the pc market, no one... now just ask steam, bioware, ea, telltales, etc... how they have been able to survive all this years with no profit?? piracy is here to stay, you won´t stop it, and even in your twilight zone stage there´s going to be a way to get those things ALWAYS.. the difference is that there are some companies who are really finding ways to get their game bought ( again steam as an example) with good prices good service, good extras etc.. ubi was not giving the holly grail of hope for p.c. gaming they were giving nothing but troubles with that system, if what im saying is not true then why ubisoft has said a lot about the drm BUT the amount of copies that they have sold of AC3 for the p.c.??? why they didn´t say: look!!! 4 million copies sold...see?? we were right!! the true is that nobody wanted to buy a game that treated you as a criminal, and just like skid row said if they invested those resources for the drm in making the game good ( not a 6 hours ride like splinter cell convinction) maybe they wouldn´t have any problems... so let´s wait for p.c. gaming to die just like you said... funny we have been waiting for that to happen for the last 20 years......... and counting.

Because people are cheap asshats and then once there is a problem (ANY PROBLEM) with a PC game, they finally get to feel better about themselves by saying, "I stole it for a just reason!". People will find any reason to get something for free... even if that means screwing themselves over in the end.

No pirates care about getting games for free. You really think they care about the "average consumer"? No. They just like justifying their stealing. Plain and simple, people have some guilt in the back of their mind when they steal a game and when they can have an excuse to come along and blame it makes them feel better.

Ubisofts DRM is not noticeable to ANY consumer. If you can't afford even a 56k connection, than you should not be playing High End PC games in the first place.

I steal PC games sometimes, why? Because sometimes I am a super cheap ass mofo and I don't want to spend money on some random ass game. But I'm not saying I'm doing it for some righteous cause.

No, hackers care more about Ubisoft's customers than Ubisoft. Ubisoft knows that their customers take it in the ass every time, and will pay $50+ for a game that they can't play on the road, and most of the time can't play even at home with a good internet connection.

Ubisoft, Sony, Activision, etc... have proven this.

However, pirates and hackers are not one and the same. Hackers are responsible for the expansions, mods, and tools for great games like Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, the original Doom, etc... Pirates are responsible for getting themselves free games. A few decide that they're "sticking it to the man" by releasing stuff, but most are just asshats who want free stuff.

While Pirates will take advantage of hackers, hackers most often aren't pirates, just people with the know how and the desire to make gaming better by removing the malware, viruses, and annoyances with gaming. Having to have internet always to play a game is not good customer service. It just means that in 2 years, when ACIII hits, Ubisoft will shut down the AC2 servers, and refuse to allow anyone to play it anymore in an attempt to force an "upgrade".

Hackers are responsible for removal of malware like Starforce and Securom, and whatever Ubisoft calls their current virus. Stuff that is nothing more than a system security vulnerability, deliberately designed as such. Stuff that denies paying customers access to the product they paid for. And stuff that adds wear and tear on a system, and tears up the original discs.

Just like Sony is doing with the PS3. I refused to allow them to remove an integral feature promised me. Now my system is a brick. I can't use games bought on the PSN without connecting and updating, can't use newer titles coming out, and can't buy new PSN titles.

To top it off, even though the recent "policy changes" email said to contact customer disservice to delete the account if you don't agree to the new scam terms, the customer disservice department adamantly refused to do so. Probably because they intend to sell my credit card information to whomever bids the highest.

Oh yes, because piracy on the 360 and Wii is nonexistant, right? Oh wait.

I'm not cool with piracy, but I'm a-ok with cracks that allow me to play the games I purchased when and how I want to play them.

maybe thats why they decided to protect their crack with their version of solidshield, now let´s see how good is ubi at cracking their own exe......