Ubisoft DRM games to be temporarily unplayable

unplayable? Oh well nothing new i suppose :P

This is why DRM doesn't work, unless they 'unlock' the game, you are essentially renting it. So when the servers go down, or they get shut down - the game you have so-called purchased becomes nothing more than a coaster. And it is very easy to blame the pirates, in fact it has never been about piracy, it is about sales and piracy has never hurt sales, it have been proven by many legitimate sources. People don't realize that DRM has been out far longer then people realize, just look at how old SecuRom is for instance, then came StarForce with almost virus like DRM and lets not forget that the original secuROM ver.1 predates torrents and that is what really started the whole piracy arguments, even though you still had piracy long...long before torrents ever existed.

@billlabowski that's not a reason yo pirate ubisoft game... I'm sure if you was losing a few minutes with google search you could find a crack patch that would make the game free drm. At least this way you still support the compagnies and you can play your game anytime you want.

LMAO...oh boy

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@SythisTaru Pirates crack the DRM, which leaves the legitimate consumers stuck with it. No, I'd say legitimate consumers have a strong reason to not like DRM.

Prime example of why I hate the whole concept of internet being a requirement to play a game you pay legit money for. Also why I have a running boycott on all Ubi games (even though I'm a console gamer who isn't direcly affected). It also encourages piracy, as it should. If you get shafted for trying to play a game the legal way, but can play it just fine by pirating it, then what's the motivation to do the right thing?

Bought Anno 2070 and guess what? Still haven't been able to play it because of their stupid DRM! Their launcher asked for my key so I gave it to them and it authenticated. But...it doesn't end there. The game itself also phones home to authenticate and for some reason it doesn't work on the machine I have the game installed on. Stupid. Thanks for punishing a legitimate customer.

"This move ultimately will help us improve the maintenance of our infrastructure and deliver better uptime and greatly improved services for our customers. It also reveals our utter disregard for the idi... customers who support us. We vow to continue fuc... um, exploring alternative avenues of revenue creation."

THQ is going under folks. Times are tough. If you want to blame someone for DRM blame the pirates. Would not even have DRM if pirates did not exist.

I like the wording in the title. - "antipiracy scheme"

Once again people who legitimately purchase games gets screwed by the company that makes them. If you own a game, you should be able to play it when you want how you want, period.

People who don't like DRM are supporters of piracy.

Buyers do without, pirates get to play. Remind me again why DRM works?

Yep... Customers pay for Ubisoft games (many of them with only single-player) and able to play them as long as Ubisoft isn't transferring anything.... They might as well rename their uPlay service to either "uWait" or "uSuffer." UNFORGIVABLE...

This will be bad for Ubisoft when trying to sell games with their "always connected" DRM in the future. However, I'm glad they took the full disclosure route and are giving customers a heads-up rather than just taking it offline. Also, there aren't that many games being affected so that's also good. Always connected DRM still sucks though.

This is why I pirate Ubi games only.

Why people play Ubisoft games on PC is beyond me.

DRM - 1 Consumers - 0 *forgot pirates unaffected

See, the is why I HATE DRM! DOWN WITH DRM! They don't stop piracy with it, so there's no point in having it. It only gives their legit customers a hassle.

This will cause me to think twice before purchasing another Ubisoft game.

This is really stupid... you buy a legit game and can't play whenever you like...

so you pay for the game and then ubisoft determines when you can play ? what a joke, anno will be my first and last game i ever purchase from ubisoft, frankly i dont care whether it is affected or not this is utter bulls**t

And this is why people pirate games, so they dont have to deal with stupid publishers. And this is why i dont buy PC games lol

So glad I don't buy Ubisoft games.