Latest Ubisoft DRM measure - all SP saves stored on a cloud server

Shadowcat on 27/1/2010 at 09:44

Well I guess I won't be buying any more Ubisoft games.

Which completely sucks, because BG&E2 is still on the cards, as I understand it.

Damn them.

Dresden on 27/1/2010 at 10:05

Don't worry. They're all bland affairs more often than not anyway.

Eldron on 27/1/2010 at 11:49

Quote Posted by Renzatic

Yup, back in the early 20th century, I believe. That resulted in First Sale Doctrine in the US, which states that no company can ever restrict you from reselling your bought and paid for goods. It applies to any physical medium, up to and including disc based software.

In fact Autodesk got slapped down with that particular law after attempting some shenanigans last year. Since then, I believe they and just about every other publisher out there have started moving towards an internet DRM based sales structure, where First Sale doesn't apply.

Except, back in those days they didn't have mediums that were guaranteed to be in the exact same condition every time you resold it, down to every and each bit.

I think the problem, as with every of those things was when people started abusing it, back in the days there were tiny shops here and there, selling obscure hard to find old pc games, and this was back in the days when gaming was seen as only geeky.

but today we have worldwide chains of stores that take truckloads of peoples recently played games and buy them for near to nothing, and resell them for a nudge under the regular store price.

much like piracy, secondhand sales has gone out of hand, enough to become a competitor to the studios themselves.

entertainer on 27/1/2010 at 14:06

watch ttlg go into hypocrite mode when any ubisoft game is released with "pre-ordered" and "cant wait for this"

TTK12G3 on 27/1/2010 at 16:47

This is a good idea, but I wish they would set a "release" date when you can download your saves or download a patch which deactivates the measure after a certain amount of time.

gunsmoke on 27/1/2010 at 17:32

Quote Posted by TTK12G3

This is a bad idea, and I hope that they will at least set a "release" date when you can download your saves or download a patch which deactivates the measure after a certain amount of time.

Fix'd j/k

I just wanted to re-write it to more closely resemble what I think.

ZergMasterBaiter on 27/1/2010 at 18:01

How very clever. Do they want a cookie now? Will it be a major obstacle to resourceful pirates? No. Will it make more people choose the pirated version instead? Yes. I would totally buy their next game but also download it off a peer-sharing site at the same time just to show what I think of such measures :ebil:.

Nameless Voice on 27/1/2010 at 18:25

Quote Posted by ZergMasterBaiter

Yes. I would totally buy their next game but also download it off a peer-sharing site at the same time just to show what I think of such measures :ebil:.

You fail at protests forever.
If you want to show them what you think of such measures you need to not buy the game at all. No matter how much you think it might be interesting.

ZergMasterBaiter on 27/1/2010 at 18:35

Quote Posted by Nameless Voice

You fail at protests forever.
If you want to show them what you think of such measures you need to not buy the game at all. No matter how much you think it might be interesting.

LOL I figured I would still boost piracy rate without being a complete arse. I live in Montreal so I still like to support my local game developer. I would do the same thing if my favorite band released their next CD with some evil DRM-like measure. I would pirate that album for my personal enjoyment and so I would not be limited to where I can copy the songs or with what I want to play them. But I would still buy that CD to support them and to put on my shelf or something. It makes sense to me.

lost_soul on 27/1/2010 at 19:28

"Except, back in those days they didn't have mediums that were guaranteed to be in the exact same condition every time you resold it, down to every and each bit."

There is a strange phenomenon that occurs when people don't take care of their CDs. It usually shows up as thin lines on the surface of the disk, and it can result in the disk being unreadable. The word I'm thinking of starts with scr****... now what could that be? There is also a certain form of malware that starts with the word secur*** that was designed to needlessly make the customer put their disk in the drive all of the time, so it will get damaged and need to be replaced sooner.