Last week we reported that Ubisoft's new Assassin's Creed 2 for PC was given DRM that requires a constant Internet connection for the game to work. If your Internet drops for any reason, you are kicked from the game, losing all progress you have made since the last save.
Ubisoft has defended their actions today, via an interview with CVG.
The full interview (definitely worth reading ... [ read the full article ]
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So ... now we find out that Ubisoft's servers went down leaving legitimate buyers of this and other games holding the bag while pirates use it without a problem. Oh don't fret though. I am sure they are spending a lot of additional revenue making sure that backup servers, ups power supplies, and additional manpower are present to prevent this from happening again ... at the customers expense of course. Remember Ubisoft customers, this DRM protection is for your own good to keep cost down and help expand gaming. Don't worry about the cost of keeping copy protection on your products, you'll have enough money to pay for it on the next purchase!
Ok, does ne1 else see that this uber f'up looks EXTREMELY similar to a DRM that, hmmm, Blizzard Entertainment uses???
I personally have not played Assassin's Creed 2 (my husband has it for ps3 - I can't stand controllers unless I have to..../sigh, played too much Duke Nukem and Doom growing up), but that DRM sounds just like what Blizzard did with World of Warcraft accounts, hell - battle.net accounts in general, everything is saved to remote servers and when the servers goes down - so does the game and/or accounts (It's rare when servers go down - other than "planned maintenance").
Their DRM is basically a rip-off of an already-been-done DRM that actually has rolled out MUCH better than theirs with fewer complaints. Ok, so WoW is an MMO but you can also upload all of your Blizz games to your account so you never have to worry about losing a CD-Key again - which I'm notorious for, on my 3rd copy of D2, my 2nd copy of Starcraft, and 4th copy of WC3 - thank God for this service.
And if they're going DRM, why not go a route similar to Steam (which I've never lost a CD-Key for, even though I probably could since it's automatically saved to your account, I wish I knew how I haven't....still have the games and the boxes in one piece)? I have it installed on 2 different PCs (and as of the 12th - a late-2009 MacBook) and, granted, the download speeds for reinstalling stuff is slow as all hell but IMHO it works and it works well.
There's always gonna be those a'holes out there that are gonna ruin it for us gamers who would rather buy a game and have a REAL COPY than a DL'd/torrented game that runs the risk of getting a crack that's laced with some kind of infection. And honestly, it takes much longer to DL from a torrent site than install it straight from the disc (at least this is my xp).
