DRM - Ubisoft

Yet another company that doesn't get it. Stop fighting your customers. Focus on offering good value for money. Make a great product. Push incentives for buying the media instead of pirating it. You have to make your product WORTH buying.

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[AngusKart]

Owning physical media means nothing You show a glaring lack of understanding of game sales and what you own and do not own

[youtubasoarus]

@AngusKart - Says you. I'd rather own the physical media thanks. I'm not paying for nothing.

[LeftoverJedi]

You're exactly right, all this does is drive me to avoid the games that utilize DRM. I didn't buy Starcraft 2 for this very reason. It's just not worth the bullshit anymore. Hell, some of these games fail to justify their $60 price tag to begin with in my opinion. Combine this with the added hastle of DRM.... I'm already getting into old ps1 games I never got to play.

[youtubasoarus]

@LeftoverJedi - Glad to hear. Thanks for the comment. It's just sad that so many people are begining to agree with the DRM measures and such even though it is against their interests. I hear a lot of people using the industries very own talking points in threads and the like when we express our disgust with such measures. The whole thing is just sad.

[FLASHANIMATOR402]

screw these guys IM GETTING THE DAMN CRACK UBISOFT IS COMPLETELY IGNORING THEIR CUSTOMERS AND HAVE MADE NO ATTEMPT TO RESPOND TO THESE ANGRY POSTS And you know whats funny haha >>>I CANT EVEN RETURN THE DAMN GAME gamestop says I have to send it back to the company and they wont take it BULL SHIT ubisoft.......GO fuck yourself

[youtubasoarus]

@FLASHANIMATOR402 -- All very true. People should by now realize we are nothing more than glorified cattle to these companies. They milk us for what we've got and they keep milking until we're dry. Fight them with your wallet.

[Foc4ccin4]

I didn't buy any drm game and will never take them even if they're cool (AC2/SplinterCellConv.), thumbs up if you hope Ubisoft society will go in red, because of drm!

[Dankidus]

I guess Ubisoft wants to spread the frustration to the gamers! They spend money on DRM that doesnt work, and we spend money on games that dont work (thanks to DRM...)

God Ubi, a monkey-squirrel with cerebal palsy could run your company better...

[IcoInic]

They talk about piracy, and even about pre owned games WTF is that? The DLC bullshit, and other crap. Making games easier, and shorter with constant price increase is a NO GO. Money kills everything, and sooner or later, UbiShit will feel it.

[IcoInic]

Completely agree with you. Games in 90ties were great. I own many of them, I bought them, and can still play withou any problems. What now, as you said.. we just pay for a rent, after some time they will turn their servers off killing a game, then were screwed. Some companies are already doing it, like EA. I hate steam, or origin. Why do I need to be connected to the internet, why do I need to register a game? I buy much less games, than I used to. I might someday just stop it.

[Ayrebird]

I once posted on a Steam forum under the Ubisoft Thread titled "Really, Ubisoft?" And the only "meat" of the topic was, "I just really want to know why you continue to punish legitimate customers?" A user replied, "Because they can't punish pirates." Sad but true; it's not fair. 

[JodaSFU]

@Ragitsu If you're going for the reality vs law argument you have to do so for digital distribution too, and the fact is that you CAN extrapolate a game and crack it even if you've bought it digitally. It's illegal in both cases, but you can still do it. The only "innocent" players in this game are the companies who release without DRM, and like it or not, you'll find far more digitally distributed games without DRM than ones you get in brick and mortar shops.

[Ragitsu]

@JodaSFU

Look it at this way. The EULA crap is a formality to avoid most of the time obvious abuses of software: in actuality, 99,99% of the time, a company is not going to hunt down every copy of the game sold to get it back.

[JodaSFU]

@Ragitsu It all depends on the game and the platform, but there are digitally distributed games you can just burn after you've downloaded them and install and play at your leisure. An example is The Witcher 2, which was sold digitally without DRM.

[Ragitsu]

@JodaSFU

The difference: with the physical disk, I can install and play any time (barring multiplayer, but that's the case in either situation).

Aaaand, a company can't randomly decide to shut a server with content down if I want to "get my game back": they will have to literally send a SWAT team to get their disk back. Guess which is more likely to happen?

[JodaSFU]

@Ragitsu Digital distribution is optional for the most part. You choose yourself if you want to buy your game that way. Yes, there are publishers who choose to use digital distribution platforms for DRM, which forces the users to register, and I'm not defending that, but pretending that digital distribution is somehow worse than brick and mortar shops is just misguided, because in none of the instances do you actually own the content you're buying.

[Ragitsu]

@djnforce9

DRM has been removed from Assassins's Creed 2. Who's talking NOW?