[Hobo]

For the same reason Google and Yahoo use hyper cookies that monitor ALL the websites you visit (ofcourse there is an opt out option but you have to go through a maze to find it and you have to do it on EVERY pc you use to log into your account in those sites).
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!





I was unable to play AC2 one sunday afternoon because the servers went down, AFTER they supposedly fixed them for good (on the third week after the release of the game). Twice i had the "lost connection to ubisoft servers" and a few times the game just exited to the desktop, a problem that was caused by the DRM service experiencing a problem. Several users have lost their saves because when you choose to save ofline and the launcher updates itsels, it reverts to the default option to save online, and since there were no online save files, their own saves were deleted without any kind of promt.




But AC2 doesn't save on My documents or AppData. And besides, it has to update the launcher all the time, it can't if it doesn't have administrative priviledges

I don't really buy your data mining conspiracy theory I'm afraid.