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General discussion (archive)Ubisoft: DRM Can't Stop Piracy(187 posts)(187 posts)
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Posted June 20, 2014
What really gets me is the technological illiteracy that unpins these corporate decisions. Any new strategy to foil piracy takes months, sometimes years, to develop and roll out. And it is then circumvented in days. Sure, it stays in effect for the honest customers, but the corporations continue to alienate them with these measures. I have already abandoned any plans to get a latest-gen console, thanks in no small part to these technologies. And frankly I may stop buying DVDs if they keep putting unskippable content at the beginning, or disabling the Disc Menu function.
Posted June 20, 2014
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wolfsrain: And he dropped the ball further...

"To fight piracy, Early explained that Ubisoft needs to not only focus on making better, more compelling games, but also ensure that these games have more online services (which are not available to pirates) baked into them."

And that's exactly what i do not want to see in my games, either.
Precisely. I've just got Watch_Dogs through. It was actually a fairly solid game, nothing boundary-breaking, but an awesome story and decent gunplay. However, Ubisoft had to go and fucking ruin it - and I do mean ruin it - by incorporating multiplayer into the actual single-player gameplay, making it impossible to finish it 100% if you don't face off against some of these assholes online.

My guess - this is just Ubisoft riding on the wave of anti-DRM sentiment right now while skirting any responsibility to do anything about it. They want the sympathy and good will that CDPR/GOG has garnered, but they want to do fuck all to earn it.
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Maighstir: As long as the extra services are not actually necessary in order to play the game, I see no problem with it. Sadly, they might very well be, in which case it's DRM all over again ("you need access to our servers for these things to work, and we won't let you disable them").
Ditto what I said about Watch_Dogs above. You can't reach 100% completion without the online mode, which I suspect is a strategy Ubisoft (and EA) is going to continue pursuing now.
Post edited June 20, 2014 by jamyskis
Posted June 20, 2014
Assassin's Creed Black Flag had their management for other ships locked behind multiplayer I think. No doubt the upcoming AC will have something similar.
Posted June 20, 2014
This is like EA saying "project 10 dollar failed because punishing people for buying used games by witholding content isn't the way to fight the second hand game market. From now on, we're going to start enticing people to buy our games new with exclusive content they can't get anywhere else."
Posted June 20, 2014
I would have probably grabbed Watch Dogs if not the Uplay and the MinglePlayer stuff...
Posted June 20, 2014
What I find rich is that the article actually starts off with mentioning CD Projekt RED. CD Projekt RED and Ubisoft are worlds apart.
Posted June 20, 2014
Does it mean that more Ubisoft games will appear on GOG? There are a few here, but mostly older titles.
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Future_Suture: What I find rich is that the article actually starts off with mentioning CD Projekt RED. CD Projekt RED and Ubisoft are worlds apart.
I suspect it was GOG rather than CDPR that infused more common sense into Ubisoft. After all GOG is selling some of their games for a while already.
Post edited June 20, 2014 by shmerl
Posted June 20, 2014
Ubisoft can talk the talk but can they walk the walk?
Posted June 20, 2014
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shmerl: Does it mean that more Ubisoft games will appear on GOG? There are a few here, but mostly older titles.
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Future_Suture: What I find rich is that the article actually starts off with mentioning CD Projekt RED. CD Projekt RED and Ubisoft are worlds apart.
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shmerl: I suspect it was GOG rather than CDPR that infused more common sense into Ubisoft. After all GOG is selling some of their games for a while already.
GOG doesn't do DRM and what Ubisoft is proposing here is more DRM so that's (hopefully) unlikely.
Posted June 20, 2014
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IAmSinistar: And frankly I may stop buying DVDs if they keep putting unskippable content at the beginning, or disabling the Disc Menu function.
This drives me right up the wall. Honestly, is there anyone on the planet that has the capability of buying or playing a DVD/Blu-ray that doesn't know it's illegal to pirate the content? FFS, why do they have to make those stupid F***ING sections unskippable? I'm an honest guy and I pay for my entertainment, but this actually almost makes me want to pirate. Really effective strategy on their part... *eyeroll*
Posted June 20, 2014
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Future_Suture: GOG doesn't do DRM and what Ubisoft is proposing here is more DRM so that's (hopefully) unlikely.
In the best case may be they will make those features optional. If they'll make them mandatory, then for sure it's just dumb.
Posted June 20, 2014
LOl, Ubisoft is not talking about removing DRM from games, they simply agreeing that DRM is NOT work, so, they think they should transform games in online services and SaaS thing.
In other words, its getting just worse. Its like Steam where you dont even download anything, its games completely existing in "another dimension" and you dont have even signs of some rights to them.
Posted June 20, 2014
This douchebag is just trying to justify mandatory ONLINE DRM "services" with some doublespeak. Hey! Look, we're not in favour of DRM, that's why we must implement more mandatory account-based DRM in order to incentivize you to use our DRM platform, and those who don't use these "services" will get a crippled experience and not get full value for what you paid for. Don't critique my logic, just listen. You want the full experience for what you paid for, you come on board with our mandatory online datamining spyware account-based DRM. That'll teach those PC playing bastards! Oops I mean... just log-in to our servers before each play session and stop asking questions.
Posted June 20, 2014
Also, at some point in the future the companies will shut down the online servers and parts (if not the whole) of the games will become unplayable.
Posted June 20, 2014
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rodrolliv: Also, at some point in the future the companies will shut down the online servers and parts (if not the whole) of the games will become unplayable.
They believe that its only for good. Once you game stop working you should not complain, you should go and purchase new one. r else they can ask you to give them more money to support servers.
Its just like in medieval - criminal had to pay for rope and executor services. Now we have to pay for our chains.
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