Here's an interesting read from YouGamers' review of Assassin's Creed II on the PC: http://www.yougamers.com/reviews/27485_assassins_creed_ii-page5/
The reviewer says the following: "Okay, so you may now expect me to start ripping apart the "horrendous" and "anti-consumer" DRM system that Ubisoft has devised and included with Assassin's Creed II, Silent Hunter 5 and all announced upcoming Ubi PC releases. I'm not going to do so and I actually applaud UbiSoft for going with the system."
Look, a lot of you are saying that its going to be cracked and that it has but the truth is that it HAS NOT be cracked and it seems unlikely that it will be anytime soon. Another quote: "Assuming UbiSoft has actually done their homework and this is really the case - key parts of the game logic running on the server side - the system may be impossible to crack without completely reverse-engineering the server side code and doing it without any access to it. Good luck with that."
Will it be cracked? I have no doubt that it will be but its not going to be today or tomorrow. Ubisoft's DRM WORKED. The only people playing are the people who payed for the game.
Also, please stop saying the pirates are heroes. They are the ones causing this mess anyway. In any case, please feel feel to insult me now and call me a Ubisoft tool! =D
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you are kind of missing the point here though, whether it is cracked or not doesnt make much difference, the fact is people who DO buy the game have to contend with this system, the very people who deserve to play the game WITHOUT problems... the pirates are not heroes, and asyou said they are the ones causing this problem, and they sure arent the ones who can solve it, but that deosnt give Ubisoft the right to give legitimate customers problems just so that some idiot who probably wouldnt buy the game anyway cant download it, at least not without expecting some sort of backlash, which brings me back to the original point you made that we are overreacting... we are not, we have done nothing wrong, so why should we be treated like second class citizens?
My personal reaction to alll this is that I'm simply not going to buy any games that have this system... i'm not going to pirate the games, i'm just going to leave them completely. I'm not going to pay for a game that is going to treat me like a pirate when i am not a pirate. the connection issue may not affect the majority of customers who have a stable connection, and at the moment, I'm on a university connection which is stable, but in a few weeks i go home and i know that my connection at home does occasionally cut off for unkown reasons. if not buying the game because of this is overreacting... well... how else can we react without overreacting?
there is then the fact that IF this system is cracked, and proves ultimately worthless, then what will they move to next? if they keep having to take more and more drastic measures to keep pirates from playing their games, it will just get out of control, and what is especially wrong with this system is that a load of other PC games are out at the moment that use very little, or no DRM and get along fine... if the game is good, people who want to buy it WILL buy it, people who don't want to buy it will pirate it, but they werent going to buy it anyway...
either way, this system is a failure and a disgrace, if im overreacting then so be it, but ubisoft arent getting any money from me.
(and just for the record - im not posting this as a hate message to the OP... just putting my opinion across)
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