One good thing about Ubisoft DRM

[ElNeroDiablo]

I live in Sydney.

I'm doing fine.

Give me one good reason why a company should trust you.

Good for you. I live way out in the "wastelands of civilization" that is the farmlands of the Riverina, a good 40-odd clicks from Wagga. I'm lucky to get anything over ISDN (basically: ADSL made from twin 56kbps dial-up modems) without it costing me a fortune <hint: I'm lucky to have around $300 a month of the $1500 a month I get to live off, everything else goes into rent, food, power, water. A decent 8mbps/384kbps down/up ADSL with 1TB of bandwidth/month costs around $150/month (including landline) from Westnet, Hellstra, Optus and even Vodafone don't offer anything NEAR that decent>.

Any company who tries to sell me games that require always-on internet just to play when I don't want to be online or even have the internet working (eg: Blizzard's Diablo 3), gets a hearty "fuck you, I ain't even gonna consider your game" from me <the landlines here are way to easily knocked offline by a change in weather beyond a sunny day, and Hellstra ain't gonna do jack shit to repair or upgrade them until they stop working all together or people pay them to do so>.

 

[ResonanceSD]

asdkas

Yeah but it's hardly Ubisoft's fault that you live in the arse end of nowhere.

 

[Twilight_guy]

I like the idea of "smart" achievements that actually award the player too. I think this is best utilized in Mass Effect. Unfortunately, no this is not part of the DRM as it could be implemented separately (sort of). I would continue on but talking about Ubisoft DRM and not immediately turning into a slobbing monkey and cursing it to hell seems to be suicide on games forums.

 

[ElNeroDiablo]

Yeah but it's hardly Ubisoft's fault that you live in the arse end of nowhere.

If you're gonna murder a quote, try and do it with some style. Ubisoft wants to try and tell me where when and how to play a game I shelled out over $50 for legally by screwing me over as a consumer through methods such as making it impossible to play without the game phoning home all the time and screwing over my net bills? They can go fuck themselves and expect to never see another red cent out of my pockets or a packet from my IP address (not even through the arseholes who put up a copy of the game on torrents).
THAT is the point I'm trying to make.

 

[ResonanceSD]

asdasd

And the point I'm making is, they don't need to compensate for your particular geographic condition. Which is most likely shared by barely no one else in the first world. They put out a product for everyone, if you've bought it and can't run it the way you'd like to, that's too bad.

 

[Lost In The Void]

asdasd

And the point I'm making is, they don't need to compensate for your particular geographic condition. Which is most likely shared by barely no one else in the first world. They put out a product for everyone, if you've bought it and can't run it the way you'd like to, that's too bad.

Wait, so its ok that Ubisoft didn't just create a draconian DRM that fails at the whim of random internet hiccups, told PC gamers to stop bitching about not getting a release and finally cancelled a project because they were scared that their shitty DRM wouldn't work anyways?

That sir is fucking retarded, I don't even play PC as my primary gaming hardware and I think that's a fucking joke. Piracy is an issue that will happen and if the pirated version runs better than the retail version, what the fuck do you think anyone with half a brain will pick up? As someone said above, I would pay for a version that worked as well as the pirated version. Problem is, they don't. Assassin's Creed II's servers failed on the PC more than once; that\s cutting off the consumers to a product they paid for.

The Witcher 2 was reportedly pirated 4.5 million times, CDP's still keeping DRM off their games to the point where they're going to the goddamn courts to contest the fact they took DRM that hurt the consumer's experience off their games. If a smallish Publisher can take a hit like that and keep going, why does Ubisoft try their best to drive off consumers? Honestly, I assumed this site's community had some brains once and a while.

EDIT: And as for the geographical position of your consumers, as long as they can buy the product, there should be nothing on the publisher's side blocking them from playing it.