Ubisoft DRM software “vital to our business”, says Conviction creative lead

O’rly?

DRM failed when people already playing with cracked server emulator. Ubi can just shut up.

so vital that I will not buy this game just because of that.

PC port fail anyway, like Assassins Creed 2

More fail from Ubisoft on their DRM. They just can’t admit that it’s shit can they?

US gov’t admits piracy estimates are phony

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/13600-us-govt-admits-piracy-estimates-are-phony/

ubisoft your a lair!

From your link, BDH:

‘Of course, piracy is definitely a problem, and the GOA agrees, describing it as “sizeable”…’

dirigiblebill

looks like if they have problems with real numbers, so how credible is the gaming Industry? If the numbers are phoney means some one lies. The gaming Industry is known to be untruthful when it comes to pc gaming from pc gaming dying every year

proof here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOJpCcY-4w

proof list of just of pc games found here

http://adrianwerner.wordpress.com/about/

even to gaming analyst like Pachter. Pachter said console gaming is more power than pc gaming which is false

proof here

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-108-pach-attack/63343

facts about pc gaming fund here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-j69RnEBAc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GPI9xDmRjk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y2nJmKzOVY

how can I trust any thing that the gaming media says. for all I know those piracy numbers maybe really small.

all this drm junk could just be big companies trying to force pc gamers in buying out dated old pc hardware at high price (consoles).

microsoft and sony have lost billions on consoles too.

proof here
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/05/e3-predictions/

@endgame
Damn right, this’ll be the first time I haven’t bought a game due to the DRM.

I find it pathetic that gamers won’t buy a game just because of DRM.

You see it mentioned on most customer reviews for PC games on Amazon, etc. Amazon should really take down such reviews as they don’t talk about the actual game, it’s all DRM blah, blah, talk.

Developers are just protecting their IP. How would you feel if you put thousands of working hours into something, only to see some wanker on the net abuse it.

Anyway, AC2 on the PC was the definitive version of the game, regardless of it’s DRM. It takes the console versions round the back of the shed for a beating, that’s for sure.

It’s called voting with our wallet. If enough of us don’t buy the game hopefully they’ll release a patch to remove the wretched thing.

“for all I know those piracy numbers maybe really small.”

So say that were true, why use DRM?

It’s there for a reason. Whether you like it or not, piracy IS an issue.

use drm to try and force pc gamers into buying consoles! I would say that consoles gaming has a lot bigger problem with high production costs,rented games and the used game market than pc gaming and it’s piracy.

“use drm to try and force pc gamers into buying consoles!”

Because spending money to publish PC versions of a game with some form of disadvantage is a totally better way at getting PC gamers on consoles then say… Oh, i dont know; Just releasing the game on consoles and not PC. Right?

lolconspiracytheoristslol

there has been over 11 000 console game devs who have went bankrupt because of consoles.

there was a lot of great franchises that were born on pc only to die on consoles

The only vital thing for PC (and consoles) is to make sure that NOBODY buys a single game from those Ubi assholes.

@11 So how come the highest grossing games don’t use invasive DRM? It doesn’t entirely add up, although it is obvious that a lot of people are helping themselves.

The music business as well as the gaming industry have been spinning this yarn since the late 80′s. First it was floppy discs and tapes, now it’s torrents or rapidshare. That doesn’t lend them a whole lot of credibility, considering that their market value has probably risen by a good 500-1000% since then.

There’s no doubt most of that is now due to consoles, but I don’t see how applying DRM that makes their games less enjoyable is going to help them.

I wouldn’t be against DRM as long as it was made worth my while. There’s no way I’m going to accept a game that’s basically rented from a publisher (meaning it only works when the publisher services it) for the same price as one that I’d actually own. Why pay the same price for a game you can’t play when you want? Slash it to half the cost of a real copy and I might consider it.

Their DRM strategy is vital to my wallet staying fat, I’m not buying anything that comes with this crap. Here’s a very good explanation of the real purpose of DRM, piracy is the scapegoat, creating artificial scarcity is the real goal.

http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2007/01/8616.ars