icemann on 27/6/2012 at 06:19
Sweet. Long as there's no DRM then I'll be getting that game.
faetal on 27/6/2012 at 11:22
Genuine question - what is the current feeling towards DRM and why is it still so negative? I thought it had been toned down a fair bit and that things like limited activations were being patched out after a certain amount of time. Genuinely curious.
henke on 27/6/2012 at 15:10
I too would like to know that. I never really got what all the fuss was about.
EvaUnit02 on 27/6/2012 at 15:52
*sigh*
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Ubisoft DRM has been pretty innocuous for a while now. Eg Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, AC:Revelations, From Dust.
faetal on 27/6/2012 at 17:24
Yeah, I've not played any of those, or read about nay of the controversy - care to explain to those of us at the back who were too busy texting to follow the plot?
Is it some "always online" type stuff?
june gloom on 27/6/2012 at 17:33
Evabot is only half-correct. From Dust's (for example) DRM is in fact innocuous now; but when it was first released, the DRM was very restrictive, along the lines of AC2. This happened after an Ubisoft employee specifically said the DRM wouldn't require an internet connection; to absolutely nobody's surprise, it did.
faetal on 27/6/2012 at 17:40
I'm playing AC1 at the moment in short bursts and while I haven't noticed any annoying DRM (I'm guessing 1 didn't have any anyway, or has since been patched out), the fucking number of menus I have to go through to get in or out of the game (I just alt tab to windows and close the program when I want to quit now) is pretty fucking tedious.
EvaUnit02 on 27/6/2012 at 17:44
Yes, the restrictiveness of From Dust's DRM was significantly toned down.
The past is irrelevant, stop stressing over it. This like how Koki still moans about FEAR 2 being in 16:9 anamorphic YEARS after the fact that they patched it out.
That being said, Ubisoft is very unpredictable on this front. One month they release Driver: San Francisco which phones home ONCE every time the EXE is run; not too long after they release Rayman Origins with no DRM.
june gloom on 27/6/2012 at 17:45
The past is not irrelevant. The DRM debate rages on and just because a company patches shit out a few months down the line doesn't mean always-on DRM is a good idea. I'd explain it to you further but slamming my dick in a freezer door would be more productive.
