Ubisoft's DRM Currently Winning Against Pirates

LMAO.. Ya, and I'm sure they have a repack/fixed crack up in no time. DRM is stupid, and how ubi even thinks otherwise is beyond me. DRM turns honest people into pirates not deter them.

Enjoy the "Victory" while you can, Ubisoft, they'll find a way to bypass that soon enough.

Tomorrow's article "Pirates Pity Ubisoft's DRM"

i give the pirates a week to work everything out

I'm usually against Draconian DRM, but go UBISOFT!

but SCREW YOUR DRM! im still not buying it =]

Keyword: Currently

Yay, DRM that makes a game unplayable unless you are connected to the internet.

Most of the people doing cracks most likely have little interest in the actual game or playing it. It's the challenge and making 'the man,' look like an idiot by breaking supposed security quickly.

I personally believe in supporting game developers and artists and buy my software, pay 99 cents for a song download, and keep things legitimate, but I won't support Ubi's new DRM scheme.

It's tiring enough to bring game disks with me for single player, but being restricted by having to have an internet connection is just too much. What if I am on a plane? In a remote vacation spot? In a hotel that charges $15 for wireless access?

The entire point of paying for a game is to play it at my convenience and while I don't believe in piracy I do agree that this sort of DRM harms consumers like me and actually encourages more piracy, but Ubi has probably taken this into consideration and doesn't care.

Thankfully I thought Assassin's Creed, while smooth and nice looking was pretty boring and repetitive and never planned on getting AC2.

I remember there were problems with L4D2 but I bought it because I wanted to play it online. Long story short, total utter waste of money.

..."Thankfully, Ubisoft appears to be making it a little easier on paying customers."...

I don't know what you're smoking, Marcus, but I want some of that...

Buy original, use the crack.

The Xbox360 version needs no crack.

Who cares, a few hours with a few energy drinks and some hot pockets and the game can be nearly DRM free.

soon it will be completely cracked

Waiting for it...

why buy original and use a crack! ubisoft needs to understand situation of the gamers. Not all of em has good net. Well they will suffer lot for this.

Actually users are reporting that Silent Hunter 5 is working with the crack past the first mission.

The laughing hasn't even started Markus.

The Assassins creed 2 crack was non "scene" certified. Once a proper "scene" release comes out the DRM will have been fully purged from the game.

Harrr Harrr. Unprotected DRMs are for kids. That think their parents don't know...

I cannot get line internet to my house except Dial-up witch costs 50c an hour. So why am I going to buy this game so that I have to pay while I play, I will never buy this game.

Piracy is not impossible to beat its just a competitor which is very competitive, piracy is good as games have to be good and not screw the customer to compete with it. This should give gamers better games but instead the studios are morons and just put more and more DRM on. Good luck with that, I know I will pirate it.

Yeah, keep laughing Ubisoft

Not an issue.
I'll care when they do this to a good game, thank you.

LETS JUST SAY THAT THE UBISOFT DRM SHIP IS GONA GET NUKED.......

Two scenarios:
1) ultimate, world-defying DRM that is unlike anything ever seen before.
2) a second rate, shitty-ass game that no one wants to take the time to crack because the end result is still a second rate, shitty-ass game that you will never play to the end because it is so godawfully boring.
Personally, I'm going with 2.

As Valve and numerous others have proven time and time again, boycotts are not an effective tool. Sure, they put a little pressure on, but not nearly enough. If you want companies to change you need to take a different approach.

100 % of the game probably isn't on the disc you buy. Instead the game has to download small portions at random locations when you play a level. If that download is not possible (like with a pirated copy) the game stops, much like a train when you remove a small part of the track. If done in the correct way it will be impossible to make a working crack that doesn't actually crack the online account service, and they haven't been able to do that with any game or service yet. Maybe PC-gaming will have a second life after all. Go Ubisoft!!!!!

If it has to download bits and pieces while you play it only takes so long before they copy the downloaded data and put it either on the original file or make a different directory to simulate the download from the server.

This DRM is just a new one. It takes a few days, but DRM always loses to the pirates. And we will all point fingers and laugh, when Ubi realizes that they wasted all their money on this pos and hurt their playerbase as they just refuse to buy heavy DRM protected games.

I should have put emphasis on the little easier part.

While it's still not a happy solution, the fact that the game will allow you to pick up from where your internet connection dropped off is less inconvenient than if you were booted back to your last save point. In that regard, the new patch makes things a little easier to live with.

That said, I played and finished it last year on the PS3, and it was fantastic. It would be an unfortunate thing if DRM kept this work of art away from those initially wanting to experience it on the PC.

This game with this style DRM is a no go. The last UBI game I had was Farcry 2 and it was DRM infected too but not as bad as this crap. I got it free with my video card, I would never have bought it.

This just in. Just read at another site this draconian DRM for this game has now been cracked. So way to go UBIsoft, piss off all the legit gamers and the pirates cracked your crap in about 24 hours.