That's good news!

Maybe now we will see AC2 here on GOG.com.

A bit strange that they release I Am Alive with Tages DRM instead of UPlay. If they want people to use their new client, they'd better release their game on it instead of using another DRM...

On that note, the Bioshock authentication server was offline for a while recently. A lot of annoyed people couldn't install their game.

I agree. It's a step in the right direction. But they still need to get rid of the activation for me.
Basically if I won't be able to dig up the game in several years' time and install and play it without needing to ever get permission, then it's too much DRM.

He's right you know it's a royal pain what if XYZ company goes belly up and shut down their registration servers THEN WHAT!

Cracks can work but you have to watch out with those, Criminals have been known to put backdoors and other nasties in those that cannot be detected with antimalware/antivirus software!

one time I had a crack for an old game "dune" the crack opened up all these dirty child pornography websites Old men with eight year old kids THAT WAY I was shocked.

That was in the past man. Now cracks and cracked games are even cleaner than original ones.

A company doesn't need to go bankrupt to shut down their servers. When the number of people who still use server X to activate the game is too low, they will eventually close the server due to costs.

That's a bit naive. Just two years ago a friend of mine cracked some game. He ran it, everything went fine, when he left it his desktop displayed a message that his PC was hacked and his browsers would only open one weird page. That kind of stuff doesn't happen as often anymore, usually the communities filter these kinds of harmful things, but it still does happen.

Pirates!!! Pirating is fun..

No, your friend is naive. I had been downloading cracked games for 10 years and i haven't yet seen a virus or trojan. You shouldnt download from anywhere. This applies not only to gaming but to other software too. From certain sites like Pirate Bay you will be generally same. Don't forget to look at the comments too.

I agree that it's getting easier to avoid trojans but that it is getting easier does not mean that the risks are inexistent. And you know, the fact that there are comments warning you of harmful releases proves that they exist, not that they don't. Also the first people to post comments can rarely be sure whether a release is clean - they can either scan the files (although many scanners recognize even unharmful software as harmful so the results are not always helpful) or just risk it and run the files. If you're clever and/or cautious the chances that you will infest your own PC with some shit are tiny but they are still existent.

Yes of course it still exists but in these days known crackers do it for freedom and purpose is not infect computers but provide users a "clean" and "unshackled" software.

Also there is risk for downloading any software to your computer not just cracked games.

On the other hand some DRM is kind of shit and infests you PC too. Runs on the background always and slows down your computer by trying to check every thing. Plus to that Ubisoft's latest UbiPlay thing was making holes in your computer like a trojan i think you read the news:

http://me.ign.com/en/news/2811/Ubisoft-s-uPlay-Exposed-as-Rookit

I trust more Razor or Skidrow than i trust Ubisoft or Bethesda or EA.