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PeegeeTips: anyone know which Ubi games are confirmed for this terrible DRM system?
it would be a shame not to play Assassins Creed 2.............

Pretty much all of their new games, Which is sad cause I had been looking forward to Set 7
i wouldnt doubt it.
If your in Bagram there is a couple shops you can use to get clean copies of games
Post edited January 27, 2010 by akwater
While I think most of this thread is just opinionated bashing by people who haven't even read about it, I also have to agree that I am not going to support this model (even though I wanted to play the new Splinter Cell and Assassin's Creed games) until this is patched out.
I have no problem whatsoever with needing to do an online activation (I start to have problems when the activations are limited, but whatever). But to do it every time I start the game AND while I am playing the game? And I get the game to pause whenever my connection drops? Yay...
And the mandatory cloud-saving isn't something I like either. The way I see cloud working is that it either happens in the background (after you saved), or the client does it for you when the game is not running. I really don't want to have to sit and wait while a save is uploaded or downloaded (especially if it is one of those fun sections where you die every two or hree seconds :p).
I am going to email Ubi later today (or early tomorrow) and politely explain my concerns. I hope you will too. However, if your idea of "polite" involves profanity and calling them stupid, please do us all a favor and don't communicate.
I could threaten not to buy the games Ubisoft publishes anymore, but the last one I did buy was Morrowind.
I don't think you can legitimately say the PS3 was hacked until someone can run unsigned code.
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antifood: I don't think you can legitimately say the PS3 was hacked until someone can run unsigned code.

I agree and I believe Sony is already working on a firmware update . . . the article does indicate that there are some serious attempts being made . . =)
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antifood: I don't think you can legitimately say the PS3 was hacked until someone can run unsigned code.

People do... it just has not made it to the masses....(mainly because we do not want our Haji shops shut down :) )
I had my ps3 modded, but once I updated it to 3.15 it is back to the old firmware.
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PeegeeTips: anyone know which Ubi games are confirmed for this terrible DRM system?
it would be a shame not to play Assassins Creed 2.............

Just Settlers 7 for now. AC2 seems pretty much guaranteed since they implied as such before (this when AC2 was supposed to come out last year on PC). It hasn't been confirmed yet from everything I've read.
Post edited January 27, 2010 by chautemoc
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Red_Avatar: Another example is Epic with the big idiot at the helm: Cliff Bleszinski ... I personally decided to never buy another Epic game because of him. His arrogance and ignorance offended me plenty. Unreal III was basically a rehash of the previous Unreal Tournament games with little original content. There were quite a lot of issues at first too - for starters, a lot of people were unable to see more than just a handful of servers. Yet Epic blamed the poor sales on piracy and only piracy. Oh no, it wasn't the umpteenth cheap rehash of Unreal Tournament, it has to be piracy.

UT3 didn't fail because it was a *gasp* Unreal Tournament game. It would have failed harder if it HADN'T been an Unreal Tournament game. It failed because at launch it had multiple major problems due to the fact that Midway insisted on a too early release. It was an obvious console port, which offended a large part of their core PC audience. It had massive problems with the server browser, as you mentioned. It had several highly annoying graphical issues. And probably the number one thing that killed it was the fact that there was no Linux server on release. Since all the people who hosted UT2004 servers, and were therefore the people expected to host UT3 servers as well, ran Linux servers, the multiplayer audience was simply lost from the beginning.
All these things have been fixed by now, and today UT3 is actually a brilliant game, quite worthy of the series, but it came too late and the damage is done. At any given time, there are still more people online playing UT99 and UT2004 (each of them, not the two combined) than there are people playing UT3. In fact, as of this writing, these are the numbers of online players for each game (via gametracker.com):
UT3: 288
UT2004: 614
UT99: 832
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antifood: I don't think you can legitimately say the PS3 was hacked until someone can run unsigned code.
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akwater: People do... it just has not made it to the masses....(mainly because we do not want our Haji shops shut down :) )
I had my ps3 modded, but once I updated it to 3.15 it is back to the old firmware.

I never heard of that, do you know of any articles that talk about it in detail?
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acare84: Yes, Ubisoft is dropping PC DRM but you must go online and log in to Ubisoft's servers to play the game, see the main menu, save and load the game. Their games will be like MMO games, you need to log in to play. It is so bad decision because there are huge of gamers who don't want to get online to play their games or don't have internet connection.

What a bunch a retards...
So their wonderful, innovative, way to fight piracy and get rid or DRM they were hyping some months ago was to actually just....: to try to change DRM's name to something else...brillant...
A short FAQ about Ubisoft's DRM

same article. ;)
Post edited January 27, 2010 by taczillabr

Sorry, didn't realize that, thanks for letting me know . . .=)
It seems that GOG is about the only place to purchase games and not worry about DRM in any form! I live in rural area where there is NO available high speed internet access, I am forced to use a 3G modem and only get 5GB traffic per month. I almost always have to use a friends internet just to download my purchases from GOG. All game companies who don't learn from their mistakes (DRM) should fail, go bankrupt and never be heard from again! As you can tell I dislike DRM. : )
Wow, this new Ubisoft DRM combines all of the worst qualities of Steamworks into one crappy package. Yes, you get unlimited installs and whatnot, but no offline mode for single player games? What? If you're going to copy Valve, at least do a little research. Offline mode might not get much use, but it saves Steam from significant opposition.
It seems that Valve is stepping on toes, because other players in the industry are reacting rather harshly to it. Competing digital distribution stores now refuse to sell new Steamworks titles, Randy Pitchford goes on a rant about how Valve is dangerous, and Ubisoft refuses Steamworks for their own, internally-produced clone.
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Also, you have to be online at all times with this new Ubisoft cloud DRM. According to the FAQ, if you lose your connection, the game will pause and wait to reconnect. That is absurd. Steamworks may be tolerable but Ubisoft has absolutely no respect for paying customers. No more Ubisoft for me until they drop this crap.
Post edited February 01, 2010 by melchiz