Ubisofts New DRM cracked

[Numptie]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2010/03/18/ea_follows_ubisoft_will_sell_titles_with_always_on_drm

Following in Ubisoft's footsteps, Electronic Arts has confirmed that upcoming games from the publisher will include the very controversial "always on" DRM scheme that forces gamers to be connected to the Internet at all times or lose the ability to play their games.

The first EA title to include the DRM will be Command & Conquer 4.

Oh dear, i just hope EA are the only ones to follow suite and nobody else does.

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

Take into account the recent trend of not releasing a demo also is an obvious cause of piracy, I would have bought quite a few more games based on demos rather than having to try them through other means... there are very few review sites that I trust (mainly ones that dont review everything on a 360)

[Boreas]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

Like ive said before, stupid DRMS = Reason to pirate.

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

Is there any real data about how many games are pirated? And I dont mean the companies estimates of how many games the feel they should have sold.

So far, the most precise estimation has been 90%. But thats software piracy as a whole. Its impossible to get a fair picture, but extremes like 95% and 5% can easily be ignored. Amusingly, thats exactly how it goes, industry claims 85-95%, the gamers claim 1%-10%. The way the pirated games move through torrents, dumpsites, FTP-s and from-friend-to-friend, the number is quite high.

You cant win the fight with DRM, but you can win it with additional value accessible only through the master verification server. This way, pirated games turn into demos, of sorts. In terms of BF2, this "value" was the online community, better servers, competitive community, mods and online stat tracking.

[Vreki]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

so they should just give in to piracy?

No, but by now they should realize that they cant win a technology war against the pirates.
So they should used the mere basic of DRM that prevents kids from copying their friends game, and leave the high-tech game-destroyers on the shelves.

Companies cant win with PC games, any wonder some of them are ditching PC in favor for Consoles.

Except they also are pirated, and we get the whole whine about how the sale of used games are destroying civilization as we know it.

Is there any real data about how many games are pirated? And I dont mean the companies estimates of how many games the feel they should have sold.

[IU2002]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

thing is, you can load steam in offline mode to play single player games, With the Ubicuk DRM you cant play if the ubisuck servers go down, Which is absolutely crap.

I've been playing with AC2 since it unlocked in the US, I haven't had a problem with the servers going down. I'd much rather have this than that burner-killer StarForce (remember that folks?) anyday. Also I'm reading on the torrent sites that the cracks are getting into the game, but there's parts of the game that have to be downloaded from the servers, so they aren't working 100% yet, which is going to kill pre-zero day piracy, which I think Ubi Soft would be pretty happy with.

Their servers went offline recently due to a ddos attack and Ubisofts servers were posted to encourage others to do it to force them to make it so that people can play offline.

And any butthurt pirate that DDOSed the servers are no better than Ubi is.

[[CA]2|PVT.Rageman]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

I dident knew about it thill i got the game AC2 i got pretty frustrated with it .

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

this is just getting way out of hand, good thing i got the game on PS3. I hope this DRM wont come into games like my regular fps genres man that would be so irritating for the people that buy their games.

[Scinto]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

Their servers went offline recently due to a ddos attack and Ubisofts servers were posted to encourage others to do it to force them to make it so that people can play offline.

Companies cant win with PC games, any wonder some of them are ditching PC in favor for Consoles.

[Numptie]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

thing is, you can load steam in offline mode to play single player games, With the Ubicuk DRM you cant play if the ubisuck servers go down, Which is absolutely crap.

[Scinto]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

Ubisoft already stated that they will prosecute known cracker to the sum of 100 million dollars.

Found it floating around.

The thing I like about Ubisoft is that you have to stay online connected to their servers in order to play a single player game in the background, I know some people dont like playing like that but Steam does it aswell and it works to an extent.

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

I dont see there being anything to stop piracy anytime soon, the scene groups themselves say in their nfo's that if you like the game you should buy it but most people wont.

You cant stop piracy 100%, this doesnt even work on X360, but you can maximize sales. BF2 had the community and stat tracking, scene servers were unreliable and laggy. BC2 has an online CD authentification system I believe. Theres some ups and downs to every solution.

[Scinto]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

I dont see there being anything to stop piracy anytime soon, the scene groups themselves say in their nfo's that if you like the game you should buy it but most people wont.

[signa]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

Yup, fighting a battle that can't be won. Causing themselves to lose even more money.

so they should just give in to piracy?

[LunaTiK TunaLiK]

Re: Ubisofts New DRM cracked

Yup, fighting a battle that can't be won. Causing themselves to lose even more money.