Assassin's Creed II for PC Locked Down by DRM
Some of you are going to hate this.
While some game publishers are getting a little more customer-friendly with its DRM efforts, Ubisoft has fused some pretty strict protection-schemes into its upcoming games that could cause some big headaches for PC gamers.
Last month Ubisoft revealed a new service that requires gamers to be signed in to a custom account and connected to the internet in order to play games.
PC Gamer UK received its review copies of Assassin's Creed II and Settlers VII and reported that the games aren't at all friendly towards gamers with shoddy internet connections. "If you get disconnected while playing, you're booted out of the game. All your progress since the last checkpoint or savegame is lost, and your only options are to quit to Windows or wait until you're reconnected," the site reported.
This means that any gaming session of Assassin's Creed II you may have running can be taken down by your ISP failing, your wireless signal being weak, your router on the blink, or simply just someone pulling any number of plugs. Even worse, what happens when Ubisoft's Master servers are down?
Ubisoft's seemingly restrictive service does have a few benefits: it can sync your save games with the Ubisoft cloud so you can retrieve them from anywhere; and you're allowed to install the game as many times on as many PCs as you want (but you can only sign in at one machine at a time).
Ubisoft offered comment in an earlier story regarding its online-always service:
The platform requires a permanent Internet connection. We know this choice is controversial but we feel is justified by the gameplay advantages offered by the system and because most PCs are already connected to the Internet. This platform also offers protection against piracy, an important business element for Ubisoft and for the PC market in general as piracy has an important impact on this market. Any initiative that allows us to lower the impact of piracy on our PC games will also allow us to concentrate further effort to the creation and expansion of IPs for the PC - our goal is to deliver the best gaming experience to our customers, anywhere, anytime."
What's your take on this new DRM scheme?

DRM's don't keep honest people honest. They have a tendency to turn honest people into pirates cause they don't want to have to deal with the crap. Seriously most pirates couldn't crack anything, but we can hit download, extract, install, profit.
DRM makes games restrictive.
Therefore, people don't buy games with DRM.
DRM's don't keep honest people honest. They have a tendency to turn honest people into pirates cause they don't want to have to deal with the crap. Seriously most pirates couldn't crack anything, but we can hit download, extract, install, profit.
There's literally no point in this game going to PC if it's just DX9.
Steam isn't anywhere near this bad, and I don't buy steam games as a matter of principal either.
Am I just old? I haven't found a really good games lately...I find myself much more interested in pounding away code on the keyboard....
Single player works fine with or Internet connection on Steam.
At any rate, 01100110011101010110001101101011 (
Complete BS!
DRM makes games restrictive.
Therefore, people don't buy games with DRM.
Agreed, all the new PC games now are just cr@p. And most of the games over all, are just cr@p. There haven't been any good (esp. multi player) fps games like HL2, Quake, etc for a long while now.
How bout to run at a res higher than 720p?
More on topic, this is a brutal DRM system. What if you want to play some single-player games (s/a this one) on a laptop while traveling without internet access?
SUCK THAT CONSOLES!!! oh wait
/sarcasm
this restrictiveness is starting to get obnoxious though. PC gaming would probably be better of right now if it wasn't for all of the pirates who sit in a corner and blame random garbage to justify stealing. and look at who is suffering for their unwillingness pay for stuff.
lol... can you show the math that resulted in the 0.45%?
(FYI love the post)