Ubisoft drops old DRM system

I will not buy an XBOX 720 if it has an always online requirement. There are 2 reasons for this: 1) This requirement is SOLELY designed to benefit Microsoft and (possibly) software developers. It provides no benefit whatsoever to the customer, and often times punishes us. If you want to fight piracy, don't do it by punishing those who pay for games. Microsoft is actually dumb enough to think they can get away with biting the hands that feed them. We need to vote with our dollars and show them this is intolerable. 2) Clearly the always-on feature is the work of control freaks who like to use and take advantage of others. I don't like control freaks. I don't like being controlled. I don't like having all my online surfing and game usage data being mined, without my consent or knowledge, for the benefit of others, without any compensation to me for providing them that data. It is one-sided and unfair. When I think about control freaks who like to take advantage of people in such a manner, it makes me angry. So no XBOX 720 for me, and none of my cash will go to Microsoft, if there's an online-only requirement.

Im against the strict DRM inposed on PC gamers these days but im even more appalled by the so called PC gaming crowd who are screwing over there own preferred way of gaming.

If i was ubi and i got 95% piracy id tell all PC gamers to suck it up and get a console where the piracy rate is lower *at the moment* and ditch PC altogether, AS a massive PC gamer im against DRM and hope like hell studios like UBI continue releasing games for PC before the leeches in the PC crowd drain all the good will for PC gamers away and we end up with nothing due to gamers being impatient enough to save and buy someone elses work rather than steal.

at last ....I hate DRM.it is so mean!!!

If they continue this trend that they have been following (even if it is a little late), I won't be afraid for Beyond Good and Evil 2 to come out so I can support it without the DRM

Why such negativity? This is a good thing! Ubisoft had a horrible DRM system, ya we hate EA but Ubi isn't much better in a lot of ways and this shows that they could actually be getting better. Yes, they might replace it with DRM thats just as bad or even worse, but this is one of the first legitimate source of hope we've had coming from a publisher in a very long time.

Ubisoft have the reflexes of a potato if it's taken them this long to realise that this was backfiring on them badly.

And that's on top of the potato they already were for not being able to see this coming in the first place.

Drop old DRM system?  And replace with....?

They have to, unless other companies are planning to drop it out as well.

Something tells they have a plan and they don't want us to know how they will get around it.

I'm actually surprised at this news, though it's obvious they're planning a new DRM.

http://truthofgaming.blogspot.com/

I'm sure that they'll still have some form of copy protection, but I'm still glad this obscene DRM is going away.  Hopefully they'll see some goodwill from the community in terms of increased sales.

That's a bit better Ubisoft. Don't get me wrong, I still don't like you very much, but at least I don't hate you, like certain other developers/publishers I could mention.

What the hell is a digital rights management system anyway? I have heard of it before, but never was interested enough, until now.

I dun mind... i rarely get pirated games "Oops LOL"

but i buy games that deserved to get bought after looking into it first

But... What if they are ditching this DRM system to make way for a new one!

I like this policy, one more reason Ubisoft is one of my favorite Game Studios.

Finally!

I for one thought they should have tried to improve the DRM by making it more difficult to pirate as it was clear it wasn't working. Diablo III still hasn't been properly cracked and that sold 6 million+. I'd like for PC piracy to die so PC gamers will be forced to buy their games boosting PC game sales and leading to higher quality releases. If it takes always-on-DRM to accomplish that then so be it--I'm not effected by it in the slightest.

Ah! At last Ubisoft will stop treating their customers as pirates.

Good move UbI the DRM was like a curse on something desirable as truly UBI makes some amazing games though i am sure a lot of us would like them to bring the old splinter cell style back into the splinter cell series.

I never did like pirating games and I will never again

Very good move. One-time registration is fine; anything beyond that is unfair to the customer. It's nice to see that our voices have been heard, at least by one company.

the pirates (terrorists) have won........

lol at the name of the editor... Guy Cocker lmao

So you're coming to your senses little by little Ubi? Now kill your Uplay and we're good. Take notes EA. Oh is EA. Never mind you won't. Trololol

Nice... now for GFWL.

So now there's a one time activation an I'm the master of my game? FINALLY!!

I was avoiding Ubi games for a while because of their crap DRM and now they will have their chance to win me back as a customer. Let's see how they do.

Ubisoft has bad DRM, PC Gamers cry. Ubisoft gets rid of of bad DRM because PC Gamers were crying... then PC Gamers cry harder. Really? They got rid of the DRM, made it a ONE-TIME online installation and you're STILL crying? Come on, Ubisoft's new DRM is BEYOND reasonable.  They did their part, now do YOURS.

Good. There's just something they're going to learn now; once you scare away your loyal customers, it's pretty hard to bring 'em back.  But it's still good news, now I can buy Ubi games games.

So you were seeing a major drop in sale and a rise in the piracy rate of your games while you had your ridiculous DRM. Oh well; at least you did the common sense thing and dropped it (because it obviously wasn't working at anything other than pissing off your legitimate consumers).

But yeah, we're supposed to now be happy and throw a massive celebration in your honour because you've 'listened' to our feedback. Yeah, I guess you can call looking at your declining game sales as 'feedback'.

"Will this influence your future purchases?"

Absolutely.  This means I can finally lift my 3 or 4 year (lost track of time... When was Assassins Creed II released again?) ban on buying Ubisoft games.  I won't be running back to your games too quickly thanks your years of treating us legitimate customers like dirt and your downright disrespectfulness.  But provided this announcement is true, then I can safely say that I'll be lifting my boycott.  So I'll test the waters and we'll see what happens from there.  But go down that road again and watch how quickly I reinstate the boycott.  I've done it for this long already, I'd happily do it again just to drive the point home.

Good Luck.

I do not feel like it is a good idea to thank Ubisoft until they remove the online installation. I wish all developers allow PC gamers to install their PC video games without having to do it online.

So it looks like ubisoft have finished their experiment on how much shit you can give a customer and still make them come back for more.  I dont see why everyone is praising them for removing the old drm.... how many years did they have it?? how many compliants has there been about it?  People should be pissed at how long it took them and that is even more ammo to never buy a game off them.  They ignore all the complaints for years, then turn around and say "you were right, our drm is shit, now we will change it", disgraceful.