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Basically, from now on you will have to be online to play Ubisoft games. Every time you start a game, it checks in with the server. Every time you save, it checks in with the server. And so on.

It's absolutely INSAAAANNEEE.

[quote]The price we pay for not requiring the CD in the drive, and for being able to install a game we’ve legally bought on as many machines as we want, is to be permanently online when playing Ubi games. It will authenticate itself online each time you load it, and then save remotely every time you save. This is, to stress, a game perhaps bought in a shop. So from now on, beginning with Settlers 7, potentially all Ubi PC games will require you to check in with them to let them know you’ve started playing their game, and then tell them every time you save, send them all the data in doing so, and then say bye-bye when you’re done playing for that day.

Shack News received some clarifying information from Ubisoft. They explain that they will apply patches should they ever remove the servers behind the games. They also explain that if your connection drops while playing, the game will pause while it tries to reconnect, and then will apparently allow you to carry on without the internet. They don’t say whether it will be impossible to save if you do, however. They also say in the same notes that, “you will need to have an active Internet connection to play the game, for all game modes.â€

I doubt that would come on AC2. My understanding is that's their 'future plans' but doesn't really exist yet, and AC2 is too close to release to have that magically tacked on. Or so I hope.

However, most definitely not interested in that. BTW, it stores your saved games "in the cloud" as it were, but this is retarded. I want to be able to play games while waiting for a plane in the airport. Or waiting for class to start. Maybe even while in a boring meeting at work. I'm not interested in people controlling what I can and can't do with MY game. I bought it, it's mine... first sale doctrine, bitches.

Ugh that sounds horrible. Shame, Ubisoft is about the only publisher I still trust for quality games.

Are these guys trying to kill themselves in the PC world? Whatever, I won't be buying any game with that idiocy. Too bad, that's another 'definite buy' that just went to a 'never buy' status. Jesus, the people running these companies are freakin' idiots.

It's a crazy world when you realize that EA is actually the more sensible distributor when it comes to DRM. They make up for that with all the 'account' hoops they make you jump through in ME2 tho.

idiots. Guess what manufacturer I won't be buying games from any more? Stupid crap.

A lot of game companies are getting retarded. However, I see this as an opportunity for the market to correct itself. Crappy company doing stupid stuff? No one buys their crap and they go under and someone not so stupid takes their place. Hopefully developers like Valve and Stardock step up and become the next megastars of the game development world. Despite everyone's nay saying, the PC still holds a ridiculous amount of money for games, and always will.

I know he has sod all influence, but next time our Ubi rep comes in I'm gonna whine at him about this rubbish.

Haha, that's pretty good. One of those guys is semi-stalking the girl I like in a similar fashion. Looking forward to the moment he walks up to me to tell me to lay off 'his' girl.

gotta love loser guys who don't know when it's over. Can't say I've ever had to really deal with anyone like that, though. Thankfully. Awkward!

'Yea, dude... she's not your chick any more. I've been banging her for weeks. Occasionally we laugh at that picture of you in spiderman underwear.'