Horrifically bad DRM

[kane_magus]

Seriously, Ubisoft?

So players will be unceremoniously kicked to the main menu if they lose internet connection even for a bit or if the Ubisoft servers go down, making them lose all progress since their last save.

As far as DRM goes, that has to be the single most asinine thing I have heard of yet. Really, this is beyond the pale.

Hmm, I wonder how many days it will be before the official PC release of Assassin's Creed 2 that this is cracked and rendered a moot point to all except for legitimate customers who aren't willing to use such cracks? In any case, I'm glad I have the 360 version of AC2 and not the PC version.

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[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you know how I feel on this topic. ¬_¬

I think I've heard about them planning this kind of thing already on Kotaku a while back. If it is the same company, and if I'm remembering it right, it's not just this game that will be receiving the treatment.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Oh and want to know what I predict will be the turn of events for this?

After the initial backlash of enraged gamers hits them, ubisoft will release a "patch" that will make it so the game doesn't lose all the data from when it crashes you to the main menu.

And the majority will love them for it. Even tho they will still need an active internet connection to play their offline game.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I really hope this fails miserably and is an example to other companies not to even bother trying anything remotely like this ever again. But I'm not at all optimistic that will happen.

And yeah, this is supposedly the plan for "all future PC games" from Ubisoft. Which, to me, translates to "never buy another Ubisoft PC game again, at least until they stop being retarded and get rid of this crap."

[tokoz.livejournal.com]

srsly? I mean, I'm all for certain moral rights for artistic product, but interfering with a legitimate purchaser's normal enjoyment of a legally bought product is going too far. I hope someone sues them. :P

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have no problem with companies trying to find ways to stop assholes from illegally downloading their stuff (which is, of course, the root cause of all this to begin with, without which we wouldn't even be having this conversation). But it just seems that there is no way to do that without screwing over legit customers as well. From my observations, there has been no DRM scheme that doesn't, in some way, inconvenience legit consumers, even all the way back to ye olde days of copy protection schemes that had you looking up obscure stuff in the manual.

And even worse, the horrible things like this that they try invariably end up completely failing to stop piracy in any meaningful way, so the only ones left being screwed over are legit customers. The sad fact of the matter is that pirates simply don't have to worry about DRM at all, aside from a few hackers who work on the initial disabling and removal of it, and this often occurs before a game is even officially available for purchase thanks to leaks and such. :/