Ubisoft is apparently going with the "fuck everyone" approach to DRM.
Pirates will crack this, and when they do, Ubisoft will only be punishing their actual customers.
I really have no problem with them doing whatever they need to do to protect their product, but punishing legitimate consumers is not a good approach to DRM.
Still, I fully expect this is the direction the entire PC Gaming industry is headed.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
That just isn't feasible for a lot of people, soldiers in a combat zone trying to play a game on a laptop, for one group. Or sailors on a ship. Or anyone who can't afford always-on internet.
Bad move. Going to get bad PR.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Given the worthlessness of Comcast, et al, the reality is that there are going to be plenty of times when you won't have internet, even in your own house.
I haven't been officially boycotting any game company, (Not even EA, for Dragon Age), but Ubisoft will be my first. I hope they all go bankrupt.
I like that on Steam I can still have a session of any of my single player games, even when Comcast fucks up my internet for a week.
Ubi say there are three advantages to their online services. The first: you don't need a disc. The second: that you can install the game on as many PCs as you like, as many times as you like. And the third: the automatic uploading of savegames to Ubisoft's servers.
1) Why would I need a disk anyway?
2) Why wouldn't I be able to do this anyway?
3) I've never needed this before.
Cakedaddy wrote:3. I actually like the cloud thing happening with Torchlight. I use that quite a bit between PC and laptop.
Does that justify DRM? Of course not. Just saying. I hope I see that more.
I'd prefer to be able to save games to a LAN shared drive that also has a VPN connection to it. That way I know who is taking care of my save game data.... me.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Well, like the article says, I used Live Mesh to cloud-ize important data. So I could just add the save game. I agree it's a decent feature, although I don't personally need it.
I have this game. Didn't realize they were doing that. EA has bestowed its curse on Bioware with Dragon Age: Origins with the same stupidity. An absolutely GREAT signle player game that I wasn't able to play one afternoon because the Dragon Age servers weren't available.
Stupid beyond belief.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
