wanna play assassins creed 2? well you can try...

[welshman]

Originally Posted by Ned

Game pirates need to be punished harder than developers who use DRM.





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But they are not, We are (whichever why You look at it).
ATM If You purchase legally ACII, SH5, ROF (Which now has an Offline mode), C&C4, and in the future Splinter Cell 5 (last count) and RUSE then You are taking a Gamble......A much better gamble would be spending that 80 bucks on a heap of tatts tickets.
UBI protected it product but not it customers, either they had no idea that their servers would get DDOSed by the script kiddies, or knew they would, but hoped it wouldn't happen....Or simply didn't give a Rats.
Are the Majors going after the Torrent sites that allow these Pirates to pedal their ill gotten games or even the pirates themselves....NO, lets put that in the Too hard basket.......Better (and cheaper with less effort) to annoy their customer base, After all Consoles are far more easier to program and Alpha test for so lets get out of the PC market (Oh We need an excuse....lets blame the pirates....job done).........PC Piracy has always been a problem...But all of a sudden, now Consoles is a big market....It's become a plague.
24/7 online authentication is not a new concept (like they are trying to convince us they are), people playing MMO's have had to deal with it for years.
The big companies Greed and lack of interest in the PC market is the root cause for the decline in PC games, not piracy.....so this kind of stance was always on the cards anyway....that's why I'll sink My money into Independants.
And the line that PC Piracy is more rampant than Console Piracy Makes Me laff so ard that Me spleen keeps falling out.....Consoles piracy is just as rampant (and heres the kicker) much more profitable than PC piracy. Software Piracy is much more about E-peen than profit, a look at Me' I'm Leet, I stuck it to the man.......Console piracy is more Pssssst a Mate I can get You ACII for 10 bucks...if Yer Consoles Chipped, I can also do that for You aswell...But according to the software companies "This Isn't a problem"....But that PC thing is

[Mighty Brush]

Originally Posted by Ned

Game pirates need to be punished harder than developers who use DRM.

Punishment is not the answer. Copyright infringement isn't going anywhere and the correct response is to acknowledge what drives it and why it is so prevalent and make product decisions that take it into account.

Worried about your product getting pirated? Sell it cheaper, without DRM and watch your sales figures go up and piracy rates go down.

[Jigoku]

Ubisoft today compensated users who had been affected by the downtime. I assume "affected" users was defined simply as every person registered with UPlay and owning AC2 at the time.

Users with the standard version were upgraded to the deluxe version.

Users with the deluxe version were given the option of receiving one of four games for free (Hawx, Heroes over Europe, EndWar, Prince of Persia).

I already own PoP and not sure I have any interest in the other three ... tough choice ...

[Drac]

I'd go for Hawx without question there.

You have to wonder how much this has/will cost Ubisoft in the end. All the administration overheads and lost revenue to free games and the cost of implementing this anti-piracy tech to begin with and staff costs while trying to fix it all - probably would have been cheaper for them to release without it.

[Thermal Ions]

Already have Hawx, don't really know anything about Heroes over Europe or EndWar, so guess I'll end up with Prince of Persia.

Indirectly fell afoul of Ubi's DRM last night. Played for a couple of hours, even finishing a segment (or whatever they're called), then computer crashed 20-30 minutes or so later. Rebooted, expecting that I'd end up back at the start of the segment I was now on - silly me. Seems that even when completing a segment it doesn't synchronise to their server (despite plenty of time during the cut scene city fading rubbish that goes on) and of course no capability to force a save game (apart from exiting the game and hoping it synchronises (something that doesn't always happen). I'm now right back where I started yesterday afternoon and "not happy Jan".

[Unknown]

Originally Posted by Thermal Ions

Indirectly fell afoul of Ubi's DRM last night. Played for a couple of hours, even finishing a segment (or whatever they're called), then computer crashed 20-30 minutes or so later. [...] I'm now right back where I started yesterday afternoon and "not happy Jan".

Bugger.

I've had the game crash on me a few times and in each case, when I restarted I was pretty much where I'd left off; haven't had the whole computer crash on me, though.