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Ubisoft replaces Starforce with other insane DRM
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Author:  pevil [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:03 am ]
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Lol at that comment.

It was in our retail magazine today, obviously riling a lot of people up. There's gonna be a big article on it next week apparently but this week they were trying to say how it was necessary to stop piracy and "WiFi is so prolific most people have internet now". They're also trying to palm it off as a good thing, saying this way it allows unlimited installs, save data that's accessible from any pc anywhere and other such stupid 'benefits'.
Author:  Satis [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:05 pm ]
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heh...if I can't play my single-player game when and where I want to, it's a rip off. But I think we all agree on that. Whatevah. Ubi has incited the wrath of the internet dorks of the world! Beware! Curses are coming up from parents' basements throughout the world!
Author:  Rinox [ Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:40 am ]
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I was just thinking on the train how this bullshit saved my budget a bit. Since I won't be spending cash on AC2 or Silent Hunter V anytime soon I got plenty to spare on DA: Awakening. Not much else on the horizon that looks worth it, though.
Author:  Satis [ Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:21 am ]
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I still have plenty of games vying for my attention. A few becoming unbuyable due to stupid DRM doesn't really affect that. Plus my life is busy... I don't really have a ton of time for gaming any more anyway. I still haven't played some of the games I bought.
Author:  Rinox [ Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:40 pm ]
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New Ubisoft DRM already cracked

http://www.infoaddict.com/ubisofts-new- ... r-25-hours

Great to see that DRM working out Ubi, now only your paying customers are getting shafted and you can blame any sale failures squarely on pirates! Awesome!

/sarcasm
Author:  Satis [ Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:46 pm ]
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a big selling point of the DRM isn't that it's unbreakable,but that it last long enough that people buy it because they can't download it. A few weeks is usually the magic number.

Obviously this one totally failed. Less than 24 hours? Jeez, I've seen movies take longer to get ripped.
Author:  Rinox [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:41 am ]
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Amazingly surprising, Ubi's DRM servers failed for almost an entire day this weekend, locking people out of their games. If you still needed another reason to never buy an Ubi game using this DRM anymore, there you have it.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/03 ... n-all-day/

I mean...wow. Can't people just sue Ubi for fucking up their customer rights or something? This is pretty surreal big brother grade stuff.

Appropriate gif is appropriate

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Author:  Satis [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:22 am ]
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amazing how appropriate the appropriate item is. :roll: Can't actually see it, blocked by my work. Stupid work.

yea, lol @ the authentication servers going down. they'll blame pirates. Some people were talking about DDOSing the servers to cause just this. But whatever, Ubisoft is retarded. I hope they crash and burn and get bought out.
Author:  Peltz [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:02 am ]
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I had to open it in a new window for it to play. Loved it :D
Author:  Rinox [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:05 am ]
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Hehe. You gotta see the pic when you get home. It's pretty awesome in its simplicity. :P
Author:  Peltz [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:07 am ]
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Serious wtfbbq stuff :D

EDIT: Found this interesting thought on Tomshardware.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ubisoft-d ... 32914.html
Quote:
Its not even been a week yet its far to early to by advertising their winning, don't they know boasting about it will only make the crackers try harder?
Author:  Rinox [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:20 am ]
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It's just semantics anyway. They're "winning" because they released the games without all the content - missions etc are to be downloaded from Ubi, you can only do freeroaming mode in the (cracked) retail games. And yeah, cracking Ubi's servers seems rather painful.

Doesn't matter, I'm not coming anywhere near their games for a long time. It's too bad, as I really, really wanted to play Silent Hunter V and probably would have given them my money.
Author:  Satis [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:33 am ]
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I really wanted AC2.

I think it's just a matter of time before someone hacks a legit code, gets the missing content, packages it up and distributes it. I don't really care though... Ubisoft is dead to me. DEAD TO ME!!
Author:  Peltz [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:41 am ]
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http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/battlefie ... 33006.html

Wow, EA!

Quote:
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 gamers who bought their game through Steam will soon have to contend with one fewer DRM schemes when trying to play their game.

EA revealed in the changelog for the latest Battlefield: Bad Company 2 patch that the update will strip the SecuROM DRM protection from the Steam version of the game.

That doesn't mean that the game will be free from any DRM, but rather EA is content on using Valve's Steam-based DRM to protect its product.


Now i have to admit, I didn't see that coming.
Author:  Satis [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:20 am ]
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wow. Holy crap. I can't believe that EA, of all companies, is actually seeming to see the light on DRM. Except for C&C4 of course. :roll:
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