I don't want to upset people or sound like I'm trolling, but this seems an odd choice of game for a site that demonises DRM. As far as I'm aware, UbiSoft was the first publisher to bring in restrictions like requiring an internet connection to play single player games and restricting the number of installations. UbiSoft were certainly the first on my list of 'banned' publishers, whose games I'll no longer buy (regardless of whether the DRM is subsequently disabled.)

Aren't many of us here because we're fed up with being punished for buying games legitimately?

I'm going to take cover now.

Then it's not a bad thing if they change their drm thing for some games, isn't it?
Ubisoft is a strange company, by the way, I'm not sure if they really think this kind of things...
I mean, isn't it a bit absurd to have draconic drm and drm free in the same catalog?

Yes, I agree that it's a bit surprising to see Ubisoft represented here. However ...

Hopefully, if Assassin's Creed sells well at GoG, perhaps Ubisoft (and, who knows, perhaps other publishers) may see that it's possible to make money without DRM.

That's one of the reasons why i bought it here, even though I already have a physical copy.

I boycotted ubisoft because of their DRM, not buying their DRM free games would be counter-productive of the boycott.

As long as it's DRM free, who cares? And if it sells well enough here, maybe they'll rethink the policy elsewhere.

I think Ubisoft might have been one of the first companies to sign on with GOG. Certainly they'd been here for a fair while when I joined.

this!

Ubi has been one of GOG's oldest signed publishers, while most of the titles they have put up on have haven't even been their own work (Might & Magic titles developed by 3DO prior to the Ubisoft buyout) they are still one of GOG's best partners and the stuff they have been putting up here is split something like 70% support for fan loved titles, 20% simply old crap that is obsolete, and 10% attempting to milk an extra buck out of failed products.

feel free to accuse Ubisoft of being somewhat schizophrenic on it's love/hate of PC gaming, but GOG is hardly sleeping with the enemy.

Very good points, I suppose it does send a message to Ubisoft that they would sell even more games without DRM.

I'm not planning on getting this anyway because of the reviews, mainly that a lot of people found the gameplay repetitive. For some reason I had it in my head that it was like a modern version of the Thief series.

It's the first in the series for the story alone you should get it, if GoG somehow get's AC2 patched for no DRM you would be missing for not playing the first AC.

Ubisoft was the first major rightsholder that joined GOG. The open beta started in Sep 2008 with Interplay and Codemasters, Ubi came aboard in March 2009.

The main advantage of DRM to publishers is that they can blame low sales on piracy. Once the returns are calculated and praise and blame is distributed, keeping DRM just reduces sales and gives custserv more work. They aren't really "the enemy", just conservative but practical.

(That being said, early join date doesn't automatically mean the company is "good" or "honorable". Interplay is being pretty evil with their IP milking, but without them signing up to milk some more there'd probably be no GOG.)

It is pretty fun, though I'm not too far into it (block 4). It's less Thief and more Batman with stabbing.

I agree. I heard good things about the gameplay, but wasn't going to pirate it, so I just didn't play it. It is actually fairly good. I still don't like ubisoft and I hope "bad things" happen to them, but if they release games DRM free I will buy and play them.

A company that has put DRM in everything starts selling their older games DRM-free. I see only positives. On the other hand, I don't like seeing this :(.

The joke is Ubisoft stated itself, that DRM does not stop pirating and only hurt legal customers and one or two years after their statement they are in SM like DRM love again and show with AC Origins how bad you can fail when legal customers have a worse version of the game then the pirates.