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@spin cycle Still haven't finished watching that episode, but to my mind, it has cemented TGUSA's place as a proper Top Gear show.

@louiedog The people who do that are morons, because it is so easy for Microsoft to spot it and ban you. Oh look, there's content registered to your gamertag on your console and at xbox.com, but there's no record of the transaction that granted you access to that content at Microsoft Billing. Imminent banhammer.

@(Unverified) Except when you do that, you get a guest license and if your friend logs out of XBL, the content downloaded to your console is disabled. This is normal.

@Ender7 The nature of this DRM means Ubisoft can control the pace at which the game is cracked. Because the game doesn't merely check to see if you're online, it actively retrieves keys to decrypt on-disc content as as it is needed. This means someone has to play through the entire game, triggering every possible in-game event at an accelerated pace to get all of the possible decryption keys before a 100% fully working crack could be released.

Ubisoft would easily be able to detect brute-force attempts to retrieve all the required keys, so it will take hundreds of man-hours of play to get them, even with foreknowledge of the DRM technology involved. Such a task will not be achievable overnight, or even within a few weeks, especially if the keys are individualized and machine-specific (which they weren't for the first few games that used this.

Like it or not, this DRM is the only one to have enjoyed success in the crucial first few weeks after a game's release. There were no 0-day fully-working cracks for the games that have used this DRM scheme (specifically Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter 5.) In fact it took several weeks of concerted effort for the cracking groups to release 100% working cracks for those games.

That is a success, as far as DRM designers are concerned.

I guess this demo has proven that war never changes. Or does it? The war has changed. Did it? Of course not, it's war. Yes. No. Yes?

Day one purchase for me I already bought the game twice, once on Xbox and again on Steam.

I've played it, snapped pictures of all the animals, collected all of the pearls and gotten to the final boss... but never actually BEAT the final boss. :(

This is my chance to correct that oversight. Such a brilliant game.

All of you had better buy this, so we can finally get that sequel.

CARLSON AND PEETEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS!!!!!

Buying this the day it drops. I bought it on Xbox and Steam, got to the end boss on Xbox but never beat the game. :(

Now I get another chance, and with che33vos no less.

Add me to the chorus of people itching to play this game.

UC3 will be one of the few games I dust off my PS3 to play next year.

OK, forgive the complete n00bness, but as someone in his early-30s with a bit of money to burn and a desire to take my racing fandom to the next level, is this something I should be interested in?