june gloom on 2/2/2010 at 23:10

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There will always be a need.

Laser Eyes on 18/2/2010 at 05:10

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It looks like Ubi's DRM imitates the thing I hate most about Steam. Compulsory updates without the option not to update. The latest PC Gamer Blog states about Assassin's Creed 2 for PC:

"The game first starts the Ubisoft Game Launcher, which checks for updates."

I thought Ubi's DRM couldn't get any worse. At least with Steam you are only forced to update when you activate the game the first time. You can then turn off automatic updates in Steam. But it seems with Ubi they will force you to update every fucking time you start the game. Too bad if you're on a dialup connection and there's some large patch to download.

(http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=235290)

Thirith on 18/2/2010 at 07:58

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On the whole I'm relatively indifferent to DRM, probably mainly because I've never had problems with it. Internet activation, having to keep the disk in the drive - all of those were minor impositions IMO. This, however, is just utter insanity. I've got a good, fast internet connection, but every now and then it drops for a few seconds... and that'll kick me out of the game? Honestly, if they want to drop the PC market, they should just be honest about it and go ahead rather than be this roundabout about it.

Thirith on 18/2/2010 at 08:19

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It just strikes me as utter stupidity that they'd think, for more than ten minutes, that this is a good idea. I can wrap my head around decision makers at Ubisoft thinking that online activation and the like are worthwhile anti-piracy measures that don't inconvenience customers too much. (Whether that is accurate or not is a different question.) This, however, goes so far in the direction of draconic stupidity that it hurts.

clearing on 18/2/2010 at 15:26

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And they wonder why people pirate games.