Ubisoft's New DRM Cracked In Under 25-Hours

I agree that the only people that the DRM affects are the buyers of legitimate copies. The same with movies. I'll have to sit through 10+ minutes of adverts telling me how bad it is to pirate movies, how it's no different to stealing a car, then I'll have to sit through adverts for other films that I have no interest in. I've just paid £10-15 on a movie and still get given the guilt trip.
 
If your product is good and not infected with crippling DRM people will buy it.
If said product has crippling DRM (EA & Ubisoft im looking at you here) people will simply either not buy it or more than likely pirate it there by cercumventing the DRM.
Common sense really, but then when has the entertainment industry EVER been known for its common sense :rolleyes:
 
Well what does Ubisoft expect?

If Windows can be cracked, and even when AMD used to reverse-engineer physical microprocessors, than software is nothing to the know-how is it really?
 
bushmins said:
'Crackers' seem to be like parasites. They are slowly killing the games market. Companies will just give up making PC games.
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Why? Companies like Stardock (Ironclad) can sell a great many copies of a good game without the need for stupidly intrusive DRM.
 
Oh yes, another reason why I hate things like this. I bought a brand new copy of Command & Conquer 3 for PC, was told I needed to validate my game with EA before I could play online, after doing so I was told my CD key was already in use...

Someone using a keygen already registered my CD key probably but hey, I'm the idiot for paying £30 on release and supporting my game developers. Also EA chose to completely IGNORE my emails with pictures of the game case, disks, box, manual and CD Key.
 
The problem I have with DRM is that I love playing old games. Now in 5 years time when they turn of the Ubisoft auth servers how will people then play them? They will have to resort to cracking the game. If I can not play a game I have legally purchased in whatever way I like (i.e. offline) then whats the point of me buying it? That is what is truly killing the market.



M.
 
Whilst I agree that DRM is to combat piracy I really don't think thats the whole story.

It gives the devs an excuse to provide poor or incomplete games with the promise of 'new downloadable content', for a price :rolleyes:

And of course just how much they care by letting you download fixes for something they should have taken the care to get right in the first place.
 
m4cc45 said:
The problem I have with DRM is that I love playing old games. Now in 5 years time when they turn of the Ubisoft auth servers how will people then play them? They will have to resort to cracking the game. If I can not play a game I have legally purchased in whatever way I like (i.e. offline) then whats the point of me buying it? That is what is truly killing the market.



M.
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Agreed.

ALSO I think that if I want to play a game when I'm offline. Who knows - moving ISP (takes weeks), during a thunderstorm (internet disconnections or is v. unstable) internet maintanance...then that limits my freedom what is available to do if I wanted to play a game at that particular time.

Game companies should just make a good quality game at least verified by DVD.

The reason I say this is becuase I saw somewhere that 1/4 crime can be preventable by locking your door for example. Although the windows can be smashed for the criminals to gain access (for example) many people would not do it than if the doors were wide open.
 
LeJosh said:
Havn't "crackers" got anything better to do? :\
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Its a hobby, they like the challenge of cracking. Crackers arent killing the business. When games came on copy protection free floppies and everyone and their dog passed around copies it didnt kill the business. People will pay for games if they think it is worth it, simple as that.
 
LizardKing said:
Skid Row just gave Ubisoft a sale, no way was i going to buy AC2 with this DRM. Now its removable i've just reconsidered.
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+1 quoted for truth

I was going to buy this until I heard about the DRM

Its not like you buying the game anyway , you are only renting it with this type of DRM
they go under / server goes down , you have paid but got nothing :-(

I remember playing the earlier versions on the amiga and loving it
Loved sh3 , but did not like SH4.

Anyone know which place is doing this at cheapest price ?
 
bushmins said:
'Crackers' seem to be like parasites. They are slowly killing the games market. Companies will just give up making PC games.
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Game developers are killing the PC market. Digital piracy has been happening for decades (Since before copying the cassette tapes on the Commodore for example), and only over the past 5 or so years has it (apparently) been such an issue for developers.

If developers focussed on spending money on making good games with good online facilities instead of screwing every legit customer they have then maybe people would buy the games and support the developers. But as it stands when we have developers intentionaly sticking two fingers up to the PC audience (Yes, I'm looking at you IW) then they'll get exactly that back.

Piracy happens, get over it developers.
 
I personally have invested thousands into the gaming market over the years. I'm beginning to wonder why I bother though and may as well get the deluxe versions which are free.
 
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. - Malcolm X"

Ubisoft were screwing with our freedoms, man!
 
If they suddenly took all those millions that they spend on developing crappy, broken, intrusive DRM that NOBODY wants and instead pumped it into developing GOOD games instead, then people would actualy buy them.
 
Strife212 said:
I normally can handle DRM but this is the worst, anyone who buys these games is truly being ripped off.
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Not really true.

Do I disagree with the DRM completely - think it's of little use, more annoying to the honest customer and not actually solving anything ? YES.

Am I still buying SH5 and Settlers 7 ? Yes, because the DRM doesn't affect me. My computer is always connected to the internet, and I rarely play games several years on - the 'thought' of doing so is nice, but there's always much nicer things to play with by then.

I can see why people are annoyed, but there's no injustice here. If you want a game to run by your rules, make it yourself.

The world is changing - not just for the publishers and creators, but for 'us' the public as well, and we've little say in the matter. I happen to think people are insane for buying Farmville 'items', yet they do. I'll happily buy DLC that people think is mad.

Some people think MMORPGs are a ripoff because you have to pay every month.

It's all down to choice, and that choice is yours. Just don't try to complain that there should be a different choice :D

It could also be worse... they could have cut the hostess minigame as well ;)

I'd like to think that maybe they'll realise the DRM is pointless at a later date, and remove the copy protection. For the moment, it's just like Steam for me (which you can play offline *if it's not trying to update the client when you fire it up*.... :rolleyes:)... I run it, and it works.

Besides, this is what... £30. I imagine most people complaining would drink that away within a couple of weeks.
 
As someone who doesn't always have an internet connection I am very happy about this. :)
This system really does just punish the people buying the game.
 
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