[QUOTE="SpaceMoose"][QUOTE="STOCKMAN22"]
It is nice to see that AC2 is still on steam top seller list!!
I didnt expect to see it there after what happend with the new DRM.....
I want to see more hack n slash games on pc so it is nice that AC2 who is a hack n slash game sell well!
Renevent42
Well, the new DRM is why I won't be buying it. Granted, I wasn't going to buy it until it was like $10 or something on Steam anyway, because with a few notable exceptions like Starcraft II, that is pretty much how I buy games anymore. Now I'm not going to buy it at all, unless I ever get a PS3 or 360, in which case I'll buy a used copy. Yep, they're really going to increase sales with this DRM. Man, I'll bet all of those pirates are going to be lining up on day one to buy it, because surely the DRM will never be cracked.
Yeah, I can't wait to have mysingle player games interrupted every time my internet connection bugs out, which it does fairly often, or when a remote server is down for whatever reason, or the game just bugs out anyway as Ubisoft PC ports are prone to do anymore, while the pirates actually play a more functional version of the game since they will of course have a workaround, like they ALWAYS do. Sounds great.
I'm surprised Ubisoft isn't bending over backwards and targeting cheapskates like you as their main customer base :lol: Do you even realize why what you think doesn't matter to these companies? The game will sell, Ubisoft will be fine, and the world will keep turning. Whatever. Assassin's Creed wasn't even that great. I'm just curious to see where the story goes. I buy a lot more games because I buy them cheap so what difference does it make? If I paid $50 or $60 for all of my games I'd be buying a lot less games than I do. I sure would not be spending upwards of $1000 a year on games, which is probably what the amount of games I buy would cost if I bought them all when they were brand new. I've seen lots of people say they aren't going to buy the games with this DRM. Whether most of them will stick to that or not, I don't know. I can tell you that, by and large, the pirates will not buy it though. No, the pirates will find a way around it like they always do, rendering the whole thing an exercise in futility.The only way they'll stop piracy is if the game is actually run remotely like a MMOG or something, which I'm sure some of these companies would like to do if it was actually cost effective. I'm sure they would love nothing more than to basically make it so that people can't even truly "own" new games anymore, which is the direction things are headed in. No, rather they will sell you a "license" for the ability to log into a remote server, and if at some point (after 90 days of the release of the game of course) they decide to pull the plug, like EA has been doing with the online portions of some of their games, oh well, you accepted that software agreement that nobody even reads anyway, after you opened your non-returnable game to be presented with it. Too bad, go buy the next Madden.
It's not just AC2 but potentially Splinter Cell and perhaps some other games as well that I'm not going to be buying. Of course, I bought Splinter Cell: Double Agent and you couldn't play through an entire level in that piece of garbage without it crashing, so that might have been a tough sell anyway. Think they're going to refund me for that game because of their surely high ethical standards? Yeah, right.
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