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Topic: Ubisoft: What always-on DRM? (Read 1600 times)
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Minvaren
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"You can stop blowing up our inboxes about it now"In an interview on RPS today, Ubisoft tells us that they will no longer use their controversial “always-on” DRM. In fact, they quietly scrapped it months ago, but haven’t made that official until now. In what is a really remarkable turnaround, the publisher pledges that from now on they will only require a single online activation after installing, with no activation limits, nor limits on how many PCs it may be activated. Light filters through... given sufficient application of the cluebat.  At least this helps me feel better about buying AC3 at release.
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trippy
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It still defaults to always-on (you have to explicitly turn it off), so the last time Uplay died in July lots of people were effectively still locked out of their games. We'll see if that's still the case with AC III or if in fact it defaults to not always-on.
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Kail
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In fact, they quietly scrapped it months ago, but haven’t made that official until now.
Does that mean that their older games have been de-fuck-up-ed? Or just that future games won't have it? Either way, that's some good news. |
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Trippy
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With existing games there's a setting, like with Steam, that supposedly let's you play disconnected as long as you've connected at least once.
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Xuri
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몇살이세욬ㅋ 몇살이 몇살 몇살이세욬ㅋ!!!!!1!
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A quick count gives me a list of at least 5 games I'm interested in buying if they de-DRM certain games from the last 2 years.
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-= Ho Eyo He Hum =-
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Azazel
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I was interested in the new Ghost Recon game. If anyone can confirm the DRM is gone.
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Paelos
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I've always wanted Settlers 7. If true, they may finally get my money.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Rendakor
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It'd be nice to be able to buy the Assassin's Creed games for PC instead of PS3.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Azazel
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I just remembered that I bought that From Dust game cheap on Steam, but refused to install it when I saw it had Ubi-DRM
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UnSub
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Next up: UbiSoft announces full F2P transition for all titles, complete with cash shop for hats.
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luckton
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De-DRM Anno 2070 and I'll grab that.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Ceryse
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Interesting. If true and for past titles.. there's a few I'd probably grab this coming Christmas sale on Steam.
I still don't much like even having to do a single online activation at all (and I don't know why, honestly, just bugs me, I guess?) but much like SC2 I can live with it.
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Amaron
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They're still doing limited DRM activations and crappy PC ports that are late. I don't think they get it yet really.
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Trippy
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Supposedly new games will have unlimited activations. It's not clear yet if "always-on" will be the default but you can turn it off like it is now or if it'll be gone completely.
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