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Posted March 08, 2010
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http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/03/08/ubisofts-drm-servers-broken-all-day/#more-26585
Hahahaha!
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Post edited March 08, 2010 by captfitz
Posted March 08, 2010
Also note that the US release isn't until March 9, by which time them thar pirates will surely have cracked it properly and will be merrily playing without any problems.
Posted March 08, 2010
Unsurprised.
Honestly, is there anyone that couldn't have predicted this (other than, it seems, Ubisoft)?
Posted March 08, 2010
I just want to say Yea!!!
Posted March 08, 2010
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Coelocanth: Unsurprised.
Honestly, is there anyone that couldn't have predicted this (other than, it seems, Ubisoft)?

i totes read this like an elcor from mass effect
Posted March 08, 2010
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captfitz: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/03/08/ubisofts-drm-servers-broken-all-day/#more-26585
How do I feel right now?
Justified
Satisfied
Righteous
Vindicated
Amused
Feel free to add adjectives

If I was playing the game I would be very justified and righteous to be angry. Later I would be vindicated and not amused once the games started working again.
A couple of months ago a movie theater chain received digital versions of a movie and couldn't play it for a couple of hours because it required a connection to a DRM server. I think the movie was Avatar and they had a lot of angry customers at the movie because of the DRM.
Posted March 08, 2010
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Coelocanth: Unsurprised.
Honestly, is there anyone that couldn't have predicted this (other than, it seems, Ubisoft)?
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captfitz: i totes read this like an elcor from mass effect

I hadn't intended that, but it totally fits! LOL.
Johnb: yeah, that was Avatar. I believe it was a pre-screening in Germany.
Post edited March 08, 2010 by Coelocanth
Posted March 08, 2010
Doh ho ho, silly Ubisoft.
Steam was the gateway drug for this junk, people. Steamworks is a terrible thing, yet it is growing in popularity among publishers (look at all of the Steamworks titles from 2009 and upcoming games that will include it). Large publishers see the growth of Steamworks and will attempt to emulate it. Yet, to many gamers, Steamworks is "great" because Valve can do no wrong. The praise that this quasi-trojan horse (not in a malware sense, but in a classical sense) receives will only encourage more developers to copy Ubisoft and Valve.
Is it too late to restore freedom to the customer, and if not, what will save us?
Posted March 08, 2010
It's good to see people who bought the game to have absolutely no problems at all, and the pirates being unable to play the game thanks to this impressive piece of software... or was it the other way?
Posted March 08, 2010
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Coelocanth: Unsurprised.
Honestly, is there anyone that couldn't have predicted this (other than, it seems, Ubisoft)?

Yeah. The Ubisoft defenders. You'll be surprised there were quite a number of them posting on RPS and some other sites some time ago.
Posted March 08, 2010
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melchiz: Steam was the gateway drug for this junk, people. Steamworks is a terrible thing, yet it is growing in popularity among publishers (look at all of the Steamworks titles from 2009 and upcoming games that will include it). Large publishers see the growth of Steamworks and will attempt to emulate it.

Steamwork's not really evil, it's pretty much just another approach, with community services, automatically downloaded patches etc. , I've never really had trouble with offline mode, so there. It's really up to customer if he wants freedom or extended service.
Ubisoft, however, got exactly what they deserved.
Posted March 08, 2010
Oh, the irony...
Posted March 08, 2010
Absolutely, Paradoks.
What a glorious day, when pirates are unable to play due to Ubisoft's great DRM and for legal customers their game is working as intended. Oh, wait.
Posted March 08, 2010
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melchiz: Doh ho ho, silly Ubisoft.
Steam was the gateway drug for this junk, people. Steamworks is a terrible thing, yet it is growing in popularity among publishers (look at all of the Steamworks titles from 2009 and upcoming games that will include it). Large publishers see the growth of Steamworks and will attempt to emulate it. Yet, to many gamers, Steamworks is "great" because Valve can do no wrong. The praise that this quasi-trojan horse (not in a malware sense, but in a classical sense) receives will only encourage more developers to copy Ubisoft and Valve.
Is it too late to restore freedom to the customer, and if not, what will save us?

How? Steamworks is tame compared to Ubi's DRM.
Posted March 08, 2010
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melchiz: Steam was the gateway drug for this junk, people. Steamworks is a terrible thing, yet it is growing in popularity among publishers (look at all of the Steamworks titles from 2009 and upcoming games that will include it). Large publishers see the growth of Steamworks and will attempt to emulate it.
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Fenixp: Steamwork's not really evil, it's pretty much just another approach, with community services, automatically downloaded patches etc. , I've never really had trouble with offline mode, so there. It's really up to customer if he wants freedom or extended service.
Ubisoft, however, got exactly what they deserved.

Hell, we just had a Steam server outage the other day and none of my games stopped working the entire time, including the ones with online components (not the multiplayer ones, obviously). Even with the so-called "evil" that is Steamworks, Steam is doing something right that Ubi obviously is not. They should have seen this coming, they were warned emphatically by the public, they didn't listen, so I heartily agree, they have gotten exactly what they deserve.
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