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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: GilloD on February 17, 2010, 07:19:35 PM

Title: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: GilloD on February 17, 2010, 07:19:35 PM: Quote
Incredibly, the worst is indeed true in Assassin’s Creed 2 – and, it appears, will be for Settlers 7 too. No matter what you’re doing, no matter what the reason, the game will refuse to let you continue playing if it decides you’re not online. You’re dumped right back to a menu, losing any progress made since the last checkpoint. If you don’t have a constant, uninterrupted internet connection, you can’t play. Let’s list some of the reasons you might drop your net connection, shall we? Router crash, ISP problems, cat playing with the cable, microwave muddling your wi-fi connection, train going into a tunnel when you’re on 3G, Windows having a networking befuddlement, someone else in the house torrenting the bandwidth dry…

Lul. Looks like I'll have to torrent it- My connection drops like once an hour for 30 seconds or so.
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 17, 2010, 07:21:22 PM: :lol :lol :lol :lol

PC gaming :piss2
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 17, 2010, 07:22:41 PM: Source?
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 17, 2010, 07:25:29 PM: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/17/ubisoft-drm-doesnt-sound-like-such-a-good-idea-anymore/

cracked within weeks

maybe even before it launches

pisses off legit customers, pirates do the lulz and go back to playing their pirated copies of MW2 with the dedicated server hack
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 17, 2010, 07:28:24 PM: Draconian DRM that upsets legitimate gamers and is useless against pirates? I am SHOCKED.
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 17, 2010, 07:29:53 PM: as i said on a past episode of the podcast re: Mass Effect DLC, this kind of shit makes me want to buy the game, then download a hacked copy just so i can avoid the hassle
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 17, 2010, 07:31:52 PM: and everyone would still steal it
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: archie4208 on February 17, 2010, 07:39:58 PM: PC gaming :rofl
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 17, 2010, 07:44:19 PM: saw some dudes har-har-har-ing it up about this over on gaf

oh, the schadenfreude when something like this is instituted in the next generation of consoles
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on February 17, 2010, 07:53:26 PM: I can't wait until we get to the point where you need to get a triplicate form signed by the Pope and register your DNA on Bioware's server in order to use the horse armor you purchased online if you want to play offline.
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: cool breeze on February 17, 2010, 07:58:02 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on February 17, 2010, 07:29:53 PM
as i said on a past episode of the podcast re: Mass Effect DLC, this kind of shit makes me want to buy the game, then download a hacked copy just so i can avoid the hassle

I would agree, but in the case of AC2, they're also charging $60 for it (to be fair, it includes the two DLC packs valued at $9). Oh, and this is after the four month delay of the PC version, which was only delayed so people wouldn't pirate it on PC and buy the console one :lol (I laugh but I did just that :-[)

I don't care much for AC2 since I have the 360 version and it's more Splinter Cell that I'm worried about.
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on February 17, 2010, 08:05:04 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on February 17, 2010, 07:44:19 PM
saw some dudes har-har-har-ing it up about this over on gaf

oh, the schadenfreude when something like this is instituted in the next generation of consoles

Sincerely I doubt it. Console userbases are a mix of predominantly offline and online users. Cd keys? Maybe. But if you're predominantly dealing with a userbase that buys their games from a store then I don't think these measures will come into play.
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: demi on February 17, 2010, 08:12:35 PM: Dont worry guys, its a good game.
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Tieno on February 18, 2010, 04:42:15 AM: PC GAMING, GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN....WELL, EVERYONE'S A FUCKING PIRATE

lolz
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: archie4208 on March 03, 2010, 06:35:28 PM: The DRM has been cracked. :teehee
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: cool breeze on March 03, 2010, 06:37:48 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on February 17, 2010, 07:25:29 PM
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/17/ubisoft-drm-doesnt-sound-like-such-a-good-idea-anymore/

cracked within weeks

maybe even before it launches

Eeladamus
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on March 03, 2010, 06:40:59 PM: :lol i did sorta hedge my bet there, though

next step is having to access crucial game files from a server while playing

spoiler (click to show/hide)
will still be cracked
[close]
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 07, 2010, 07:44:11 PM: Quote from: Borys on March 07, 2010, 05:14:12 PM
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/07/ubisoft-drm-authentification-server-is-down-assassins-creed-2/

DRM servers for AC2 are down.

People who bought the game cannot play it.
Pirates who warezed the game can play it.

:piss Ubisoft :piss2

May be :nsfw:
http://stupidinter.net/piracy.jpg

Ubisoft: :derp
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: Ichirou on March 07, 2010, 07:44:56 PM: :spitzer AC2 PC owners :spitzer
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Post by: Bildi on March 07, 2010, 09:28:13 PM: :rofl

Beyond words.
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: pilonv1 on March 07, 2010, 09:32:02 PM: (http://www.evilbore.com/forum/Smileys/default/derp.gif)

:lol when did this get added
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose interne
Post by: Bildi on March 09, 2010, 08:53:57 PM: Now ubi have now discovered their server wasn't overloaded, but hackers crashed it!

http://kotaku.com/5488372/denial-of-service-attack-kills-ubisoft-drm-your-assassins-creed-ii-playtime

:lol Bet the marketing department was up all night thinking that one up.
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: originalz on March 09, 2010, 10:03:37 PM: Apparently the cracked version doesn't really let you do much, you can wander the world but can't progress the story or game.
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: pilonv1 on March 09, 2010, 10:21:35 PM: Apparently only 5% of users were affeced :lol

So 5% of legitimate owners of a single player game couldn't play their game due to a login server issue.
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on March 09, 2010, 10:40:00 PM: Is that 5% of users were affected, or that only 5% of the users owned legitimate copies. :smug
Title: Re: lulululul: New Ubisoft DRM will KICK YOU OUT of the game if you lose internet.
Post by: pilonv1 on March 09, 2010, 10:50:35 PM: 5% of legitimate users they say.

But I get your point :drake