DRM Blues Continue I'm struggling to think of a single person who isn't annoyed at Ubisoft's new DRM. It's been the cause of backlash for a while now, and certainly helped to keep our fuses burning in the last PixelCast. After all, despite what we may like to believe, we're still living in the present, and for many people, eternal, problem free, uncapped Internet simply doesn't exist. That Ubisoft should not want somebody in Alice Springs to play their legally acquired copy of Assassin's Creed 2 at select times seems a mite harsh to us. The pirates are fine, however. They can just apply a crack and play their stolen copies until their thieving little hearts are content.
Meanwhile, Ubisoft have gone and added themselves to those of whom can have troubled Internets. End result? People have been having trouble installing, and even playing, their legally purchased Ubisoft PC games over the weekend.
Really, all I can say to this is wow. Just, wow. It's like their very own version of the recent Ps3 blackout, only they did it on purpose.
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Mar 09 2010 00:57:11 Apparently a lot of people haven't had any issues with the Ubisoft DRM. What happened to the old days where bugs just affected everyone -_-
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Mar 09 2010 03:38:41 Ubisoft are putting it at 95% unaffected, which seems a little sus. Kind of like acknowledging the problem while still trying to sweep it under a mat at the same time.
The basic point remains, however. That point being that the only people who are getting punished here are honest customers. |
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Mar 10 2010 15:07:21 Image Line software (makers of FLStudio) take a great approach: People are gonna pirate our software anyway, why punish our paying users. Ever other DAW software out there uses iLok dongles or other hardware to authenticate, and these fail often for paying users and the hackers just download a patch and use it anyway (without all the DRM hassles).
It's kind of (but not exactly) like putting locks on car doors, it just inconveniences people and a thief will just break a window and steal regardless. You'll only stop the lazy opportunes, and they probably have no intention of ever buying anyway, so you haven't actually protected your assets or secured a future sale by stopping people from illegally using it. |
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