Ubisoft's New DRM Cracked In Under 25-Hours

Pc gaming is not going to die because it's too easy to enter for new companies who don't need to make hundreds of millions to make a profit.

You are going to kill PC gaming more than anyone else by buying ****ty console ports as calling them pc games.
 
The person who stole my bike when I was 14 said it was my fault because I didn't lock it up properly :( He actually believed it was my fault.

You can't excuse thieving ever, even if you pretend its got a cooler name like 'piracy'.
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In the eyes of your insurance company it is ;)

When I insured my MTB last year I was told I won't get a payout if it isn't secured.
 
I hope your not suggesting I am a pirate as that's libelus!

I already think PC gaming is dead, I should take delivery of xbox 360 tommorrow or Monday.

The fact is people who own consoles buy more games, are willing to spend money on DLC. The only saving grace for PC is MMO's and monthly subs.
 
britboy4321 said:
The really frustrating thing is when PC gaming finally makes it's last big gasp, and dies forever - you 'pirates' are actually seriously going to persuade yourselves you had nothing to do with it's downfall and it was, er, the evil publishers' fault (or something) :(
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It is the publishers fault and the competition from consoles. Don't need any persuasion. I've bought more games since I could pirate than I ever did before, same with music... These days most games are so appalling they're not even worth downloading ( waste of bandwidth and hdd space), let alone buying. I know for a fact the industry would be more harmed, if I wouldn't have ever downloaded a thing.

You already seriously think the lack of games currently on the PC compared with the consoles is nothing to do with your pirating :( I guess people can persuade themselves of anything when they want to ..
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It has nothing to do with pirating, everyone I know with a 360 has it modded and pirates on that too... Consoles are simply a far easier and less demanding market and more profitable.
EXACTLY the same as when the local corner shop stops trading due to rampant shop-lifting, and the local community moans about not having a local shop .. they actually deep inside believe themselves it wasn't their fault, and the shop should have had better security. :(
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A shop loses a sale though when something is nicked, a dev doesn't lose a sale when someone pirates a game, they might even get an extra sale. Completely irrelevant comparison.

The person who stole my bike when I was 14 said it was my fault because I didn't lock it up properly :( He actually believed it was my fault.
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That it got stolen, is YOUR fault for not locking it up, not locking a bike is asking for it...
He was the one committing the crime though.


And pc gaming will never die, it'll probably only change and ****ty publishers like ubisoft might not make games for it any more, I certainly won't miss them. And you can always play older games, the games library for pc is absolutely massive now, many times larger than the ps3/360 market.
 
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britboy4321 said:
You already seriously think the lack of games currently on the PC compared with the consoles is nothing whatsoever to do with your pirating :(
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It's not to do with piracy, as piracy doesn't equate 1:1 with lost sales. The so-called death of PC gaming is down to the fact that consoles are far cheaper to buy, and are more reliable to develop for.

The reason games like CoD sell so well is the same reason games like Farmville are so popular - people like to play them more than other games, for whatever reason.

Make a platform that's cheap (enough) and has the most popular games, and it will be the highest seller. Look at the Wii.

Whilst software piracy is a mess and many people defend it for all sorts of 'personal right' that they don't really have, it's not really to blame for the death of PC gaming - that's more the fault of the graphics card companies and the ridiculous prices they charge :D
 
Koalaboy said:
Of course, with CD-Keys, and the 'pirates' creating keygens, they were actually stealing, as you could take a key that belonged to someone else, and prevent their usage of it.
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that would be about as likley as you getting some strangers credit card and successfully guessing the correct pin number.
 
Tefal said:
that would be about as likley as you getting some strangers credit card and successfully guessing the correct pin number.
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Or as likely as generating the correct details for a card such that you can use the details..... which is why I had to cancel my last bank-card :(

Anyway, the point it that taking something that you're not entitled to is wrong, regardless of what anyone wants to call it. The fact that people defend this as some kind of 'right' shows where society is failing.

Would never have happened in my day :D
 
From reading the Subsim forums it seems the DRM is the least of Silent Hunter 5's problems. UBI have released a bug ridden POS. Have a guess as to what UBI will attribute poor sales to, yep that's right Piracy.

Nate
 
Tefal said:
that would be about as likley as you getting some strangers credit card and successfully guessing the correct pin number.
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Not really, you would require the exact pin number of that card. With a game you would just need to guess/acquire the right code of any copy of the game.
 
Shamikebab said:
Not really, you would require the exact pin number of that card. With a game you would just need to guess/acquire the right code of any copy of the game.
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CD keys have numbers 0-9 and letters A-Z in them though, getting a correct combination of these is probably less likely than winning the lottery.
 
Shamikebab said:
Not really, you would require the exact pin number of that card. With a game you would just need to guess/acquire the right code of any copy of the game.
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There are however slightly more combinations of a game CD key than pin number :p


and only a small list of the acceptable keys are activated online.
 
remember if people didn;t pirate games they'd never need to be any protection whatsoever.

And, in a twist of irony, they could plough the money spent on developing DRM into producing better games.

Pirates effectively make people's life difficult with DRM, not developers or publishers. No pirates = no DRM. No developers <> no DRM.
 
Why don't they just hire Skidrow, or another group, to actually try crack all their new protection and tell them how to stop it? :p
 
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