Piracy isn't killing PC gaming. This however is.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/02/17/you-maniacs/#more-25624


So Assassins Creed 2 and Settlers 7 on PC is going to have the most awful DRM yet and will require you to be connected to the internet all the time when you play the game. Loose the connection and the game will shut down.

Why are publishers constantly punishing legit costumers?

Frankly I was planing on buying the steam version until now. I guess I'll pick up the PS3 (worst version) instead. I won't pick Settlers 7 at all even though I'm a huge fan of the franchise.


I apologise in advance if this has been posted before.

JLF1

given the hastle it will be to play on pc I will say the pc version will probably be the worst.

Like always, this will only hurt honest consumers.

The games will be cracked within a day for pirates, and will most likely work better than the retail version.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/02/17/you-maniacs/#more-25624


So Assassins Creed 2 and Settlers 7 on PC is going to have the most awful DRM yet and will require you to be connected to the internet all the time when you play the game. Loose the connection and the game will shut down.

Why are publishers constantly punishing legit costumers?

Frankly I was planing on buying the steam version until now. I guess I'll pick up the PS3 (worst version) instead. I won't pick Settlers 7 at all even though I'm a huge fan of the franchise.


I apologise in advance if this has been posted before.

JLF1

Pirates will get around it, and when that happens the pirated version will be the better version, GOOD ON YA UBISOFT!

Well, I guess it really sticks it to those damn pirates! Too bad I have to suffer for it as well (and I actually PAY for my games!) DethSkematik

To paraphrase what I've said before, Nope! They'll get around it. It's only the consumers like yourself who will actually suffer.

I hate it, but I will have to live with it. If it was only AC2 I could live with boycotting it, but Anno:Venice, Settlers 7 and Silent Hunter 5 are all must buys for me.

Ill ask something else...

Do they think pirates wont break this DRM and make copies of the game?

... What are they thinking?

Sucks for those that don't have a decent broadband connection :lol:

This bothers me about PC gaming now. It doesn't feel like I completely own the games. They are making it so damn clear to the consumers that they just have a licence to play it. And it feels like a temporary one at that.

Even steam, as much as I think its the future given the current way DRM is being thrown about and given how great it works against piracy; but despite all the games I own on it, it doesn't feel like I own them 100% because I need to have the steam client to run them.

Although to contradict myself, I like the way steam basically turns the PC into a console by eliminating most of the complications involved with installing and this and that, in other words it brings it closer to plug and play.

But that only works if publishers such as EA trust steam and stop being stupid like adding there own DRM on top of that.

For example as much as I enjoyed Crysis, i'm not sure I want to put it back because it somehow caused slow down in windows when logging in and in general I think, I say this because when I System Restored to before it was installed, everything was nice and fast again. But its own DRM was not needed because it was a steam game.

But ultimately because of various DRMs, I just don't feel like I own PC games completely any more. And I really only trust Steam versions of most PC games because they don't stuff the DRM deep into your system where it could potentially cause other issues.

But to say piracy isn't killing PC gaming, they go hand in hand. If piracy wasn't so rampant then they wouldn't need these convoluted DRMs to protect the games from copy theft.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/02/17/you-maniacs/#more-25624


So Assassins Creed 2 and Settlers 7 on PC is going to have the most awful DRM yet and will require you to be connected to the internet all the time when you play the game. Loose the connection and the game will shut down.

Why are publishers constantly punishing legit costumers?

Frankly I was planing on buying the steam version until now. I guess I'll pick up the PS3 (worst version) instead. I won't pick Settlers 7 at all even though I'm a huge fan of the franchise.


I apologise in advance if this has been posted before.

JLF1

If that's the case then it's retarded and I would never buy a game that enforced that.

Once I've spent my hard earned cash I just want to put my game in and play.

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Ill ask something else...

Do they think pirates wont break this DRM and make copies of the game?

... What are they thinking?

AzatiS

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Ill ask something else...

Do they think pirates wont break this DRM and make copies of the game?

... What are they thinking?

yoyo462001

And if Ubisoft's servers go offline the legit buyer will be hurt while the pirate will be laughing. What is the incentive to actually spend money to buy the game with this DRM as opposed to pirating it for free and without the DRM? What managers need to realise is that DRM has to be hard to crack while at the same time be benefitial to the consumer or you will just drive people away.

Maybe the reason they are doing that is because Piracy is rampent on PC? hmmm? If i made pc games id do the same thing if 99% of my users pirated the game which is seems happens on pc.

Maybe the reason they are doing that is because Piracy is rampent on PC? hmmm? If i made pc games id do the same thing if 99% of my users pirated the game which is seems happens on pc.

WilliamRLBaker

You would increasingly aggravate your customers in an clearly futile attempt to thwart piracy?

If server-side processing is done right it can practically eliminate piracy. Basically make the game useless without a server to provide the missing parts of the game. Hopefully Ubisoft will do it right and not make it a waste of time for everyone. dc337

Not really. They will just crack the game by making it not check online. This definitely is a waste of everyone's money. They could have made it a steam game, which I would have been fine with. But this is just crazy.

There will be a cracked version circulating before these two are even out chances are :|.

PC gaming has gone right down hill though, in the UK the prices have even crept up to rival console game prices, and if I have to deal with DRM along with the usual hardware compatibility issues Im happier to stick with the 360 at the moment (as I did with ME2, £5 more for peace of mind).

isnt that statement a little contradictory? as i am aware with many steam games you have to be connected to the internet to play them if im not mistaken.

Also in a fact i find it ironic you complain that its killing PC gaming but you yourself by not purchasing the game are inevitably killing it aswell..Isnt it ironic dont you think?

razgriz_101

It's all quite ironic. Ironic to the point that I'm starting to believe all these DRM haters are really pirates disguised as ninja's.

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isnt that statement a little contradictory? as i am aware with many steam games you have to be connected to the internet to play them if im not mistaken.

Also in a fact i find it ironic you complain that its killing PC gaming but you yourself by not purchasing the game are inevitably killing it aswell..Isnt it ironic dont you think?

AdjacentLives

It's all quite ironic. Ironic to the point that I'm starting to believe all these DRM haters are really pirates disguised as ninja's.

Maybe the reason they are doing that is because Piracy is rampent on PC? hmmm? If i made pc games id do the same thing if 99% of my users pirated the game which is seems happens on pc.

WilliamRLBaker

You obviously would make a terrible game developer. Don't quit your day job.