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[Ossian]

Search Approved (I hope)

They finally did it, Assassins Creed 2 has a crack that acts as a fake server, saw my friend playing it. Checked in the usual spots and sure enough everyone claims it works. I think this serves Ubi right considering gamers like me with no home connection can't play their games anymore. I have to post things like this from public networks where playing a game like AS2 wouldn't be acceptable.

If this is old news sorry, and discuss what this means for the future of DRM (if it has any)

 

[Thedutchjelle]

It was inevitable. But perhaps the hype has died down enough that the internet won't highlight on it as much as they did when it came out.
And most people who wanted to buy ACII probably have bought it already anyway. Ubisoft fails beyond words.

 

[squid5580]

Not helpful. The more they crack the uncrackable DRMs the worse the next DRM will be.

 

[FinalDream]

Not helpful. The more they crack the uncrackable DRMs the worse the next DRM will be.

Exactly, we just go around in circles!

 

[Rainboq]

DRM is pointless, it always was

 

[FinalDream]

DRM is pointless, it always was

...and always will be

 

[dududf]

I'm fairly sure Pirates have a lot more then 1 in their scores.

Odd that Pirates get a better gaming experience then legit buyers...

 

[Wolfram23]

Not helpful. The more they crack the uncrackable DRMs the worse the next DRM will be.

Exactly, we just go around in circles!

I say probably, however, we might get lucky and they will clue in that DRM is not an effective means of protection nor is it nice for their clients. Possibly they will relax the DRM.

 

[The Hairminator]

DRM is pointless, it always was

...and always will be

Solution: Fuck Ubisoft, or buy for console.

 

[Bretty]

I think Ubisoft is no spending some good money on DRM which has been proved useless and detrimental to the customers experience.

I seriously doubt they are going to go much further with this.

 

[manaman]

DRM is pointless, it always was

DRM is far more then pointless, and now it reaches beyond pirating and cutting into legitimate rights to copies people have enjoyed since the first started protecting books and songs.

DRMs main goal is to prevent pirating the game, but beyond that it is to prevent you from running it on multiple machines (even if you only run one copy at a time, say on a computer at a home, and a laptop). They want to prevent you from reselling the game. They even want to control when and how you use the software.

I am all for allowing companies to protect their software from piracy, but they take it to far.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

Not helpful. The more they crack the uncrackable DRMs the worse the next DRM will be.

Not helpful. The more they crack the uncrackable DRMs the worse the next DRM will be.

Exactly, we just go around in circles!

Not necassarily, they might come up with a less intusive one this time.

It's doubtful, but not impossible.

That's not to say I agree with them though, it's a vicious cycle of Ubi blaming poor sales on piracy, making more restrictive DRM, then people pirating to get away from the DRM, then starting again.

 

[Volothos]

DRM is pointless, it always was

...and always will be

Unless it's steam

 

[Kragg]

DRM, like a lock on your door, or a firewall just buys time, it did its job pretty well imo, atleast some people that normally would have pirated the game did buy it because it took so long to crack

or so id like to think

 

[Plurralbles]

it lasted long enough for the initial sales. That's all DRM is for.
They dont' expect people to keep paying for stuff 20 years down the road.

They'd like to, but they know it won't happen(though starcraft is getting close)

 

[UnSeEn60]

Just thought I'd share this:

http://hehehe.be/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ubisoft.gif

Hehehe...

 

[jamesworkshop]

Not surprising it only really need someone with enought time and a workable knowledge of Perl scripts to break that DRM system