Yes, it has the most potential to work. But it has the most potential to go cock-arsedly wrong. What they're essentially saying is that the minor amount of money they'll save due to a reduction of piracy is worth more to them than an acceptible customer experience.
They're a business, that's their choice to make. I just don't have to agree with it. |
The permanent connection thing is crap IMO.
Though I did get myself an original version of Assassin's creed 2, 4 days after release. |
So... What about when/if Ubisoft disappears from the market and stops all support for the games?
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They release a patch to disable the DRM?
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What if, what if...
If they don't you can hack away for all I care. And write a complaint while you're at it. |
Someone's grumpy today :)
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Not more grumpy then usual. :p
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Although i support the idea of an uncrackable drm, I don't approve of ubisoft's approach. Games have to have to be "run as administrator" in order to be able to make saves and update themselves etc. So, when a game has unlimited access to the internet, privacy becomes an issue. There have been games that look at your computer's memory to check if you are using any cheats. This drm allows companies to see what you run on your computer, the websites you are visiting, even the contents of your hard drive. Not to mention any security holes they might create for hackers to exploit. This drm is not only offensive but also dangerous. That said, i did buy AC2 because i like the game, but i don't support their decision.
Steam's drm, or a drm that needs an encrypted usb key are far better. :
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*Or equivalent directory names in Vista/7 |
leocrow, why would they care what you're running outside of your game?
Aside from cheats |
I think I may have adult-ADD.
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Or to check if you run any software they don't like (clone cd etc). Or to see what type of users play their games. Or to check if you have illegally downloaded any other of their games. Do i need to say more? I can! :
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No chance of me reading all that. Nope.
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Also it was too long and I don't care.
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With as much info people put of themselves on the internet(And im not even talking about pics, and personal info, but rather what browser version you prefer, what plug-isn and what skins as rarely do two people have the same exact stuff), it is really easy to do pattern recognition for certain people. This could come it handy both for us, and other companies, but put in the wrong hand it may not be so good. Who knows. |
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I am not saying that Ubisoft is doing that, but this DRM opens the door for them to do anything they want. Don't ignore the facts just because they don't agree with your world view |
What the fuck is wrong with you, they're collecting data for perfectly reasonable purposes... Why do you even care, it's anonymous...
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Far from reasonable and the worst part is that they don't care asking you before they do it. they believe that it's better to appologise than ask for permission (and ofcourse, they don't even apologize, they just hide an option to disable it, but it doesn't stay disabled if you go to another computer).
Anyway, i've stated my opinion and the facts that support it. Ignore it if you wish or learn something from it. Either way, i've done my duty |
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FREE SHIT FOR EVERYBODY! CORPORATIONS NOW CHARITIES AM I RIGHT BITCHES?!
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Well... To use a product one must agree to their terms, whatever they may be. If you don't agree, simply don't use it. Make your own web-crawler.
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Not quite true, you agree because they tell you you can disable it BUT they don't tell you that you have to disable it for every account you have, on every browser you use, on every computer you use and every time you clean your cookies. It doesn't stay disabled.
Anyway, to get back to the topic of the DRM, nowhere in ubisoft's eula does it say that they have the ability or right to spy on you. In fact, you can't read the eula untill you buy the game but after that, you can't return it even if you don't agree with it. So, it's not really a choice |
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However, all these EULAs can probably be found online. It's not their fault people don't do the necessary research before buying their games. You already know what UBI's DRM is about. Either you buy it, and agree to only being able to play it when they allow you, or you simply don't buy it. Same with google. If you don't like that your stuff is getting logged, either secure your browser better or don't use it. |
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In fact there was a company not too long ago who did almost exactly that. I believe that they changed their terms on April 1st to include this: "By agreeing to these terms you sell your soul to this company." They were trying to prove that no one reads the damn things and no-one did. Two weeks later they offered everyone who sold their soul to them to get it back for free. |
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However it's most likely also because of the extreme length and difficulty of the language. Sometimes I think it should be a law to keep these things under a certain length and to use more understandable language. Or have a short version of it. It's kind of unfair to people who just wanna use a product. But it's really a fine line between it being their product, and being their say how they wanna present it, and how they'll allow you to use it, and the average users feelings they deserve something too. I think in the end it probably is the company's choice, but on closer thoughts, they could actually pose a potential danger by having EULAS/ToS that are too long and difficult to read. Thus rather purposely 'trapping' people with them or something. I don't bother with them. I mostly already know what they contain. And of course they can't put anything in there that conflicts with the law(hopefully o_o !! ). It's quite obvious that google would track my behavior and shit like that. |
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Still a fucking stupid idea that only Havoc gives a shit about, because he fantasizes about being fucked by enormous tiger dicks. |
Hah ^^ Leto's back! Wooh.
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