Ubisoft managed to screw up big time

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SecondPrize

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Gitty101 said:
Well, it seems they've really kicked the barrel this time round. I mean, I don't own any Ubisoft titles or anything, but I imagine that there will be quite a few people planning to Boycott and long-time customers who will be severely disappointed by this.

And in the end, is it really worth it? After all, the only people they are screwing over with this DRM are those who have legitimately bought the game. I bet the pirates they're trying to stop are laughing their scurvy boots off.
I agree with you, but I just don't see how a bunch of people raising a fuss on forums and then all buying some AC Bundle from steam in 3 days is going to help anything. Gamers have yet to boycott anything, and using that word to describe what we do when pissed actually cheapens and lessens the impact of one of our most effective tools as consumers against corporations. Save boycotts for (rockstar)companies who (rockstar) consistently (rockstar) work their (rockstar) employees for two-(rockstar)year crunches and then (rockstar) lay them off (rockstar) when the game ships (harmonix) and they hire the next crop from trade schools and do it again (rockstarmonix.)
 

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*slowclap* Wow, Ubisoft. This is truly an impressive achievement. Did you not TEST THIS before launching it? Or did this very large company somehow miss a glitch that huge? Unless this was intentional so you wouldn't have to make PC games anymore.
 

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I broke my boycott of Ubisoft to get From Dust for $1.74 and give them another chance after 5 years. I considered Anno 2070 but figured $1.74 would be a safer bet. Boy, am I glad I went that route instead. It cracks me up a little actually that people have been supporting a company like this for the past 5 years. Ubisoft treating paying customers like shit because piracy exists is not even remotely shocking anymore. Ubisoft just made whatever their cut of $1.74 just to go back on my boycott list. Shame too because I love the Anno series. Rather than give Ubisoft money in the hopes I can play the game I bought, I'll just invest that hope in the IP gaining new ownership. Both are just as likely.
 

Adam Jensen_v1legacy

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You can always count on Ubisoft to fuck up big time. Does anyone actually like Uplay? It's completely useless. Who is in charge of their PC division anyway? They are retarded. Pleasing PC crowd isn't that difficult. Just release your games on Steam for fuck sake. Throw in some TF2 hats and weapons and THAT'S IT! Of course, optimizing your games for PC first would be a stellar idea.
 

malestrithe

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Honestly, it does not bother me. People, if you have to play games on PC, you need to expect something like this happening. A game is more likely to be pirated from PC than gotten legitimately. Sorry, but whether true or not, that's reality.

Yet, I can play From Dust whenever I want on my PS3 without having to resort to online checks like this. Sure it might be slower because I can never have the right graphics card, but I can still play it whenever I feel like it on or offline.

This is another notch in the consoles are better side of the argument. We don't have to worry about companies screwing over our gaming experiences with meaningless and mandatory DRM like this.

Excuse me while I await a post from the person that always replies to stuff like this.
 

VoidWanderer

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Johny_X2 said:
I believe you all know what I mean when I say that Ubisoft has and has always had a severe case of dysfunctional DRM addiction. The starforce DRM back in 2005 and the 2010's always-online systems are among the most notable. Well they have finally done it. They managed to make their games completely unplayable.

You remember Uplay, right? the novel but ultimately forgettable service Ubisoft has been forcing onto their customers along with the Game Launcher and the DRM thing since Assassin's Creed 2? Well as it turns out, they made a new uplay client for their games. It downloads automatically, it is impossible to avoid when you want to play the games you bought and it does not work.

As of now, you can not play any ubisoft game that uses Game Launcher. Ubisoft has released no statement on this. there is no proper error message showing, no maintenance notice. The client keeps telling you that your password is wrong, no matter how many times you reset it.

Here's the link to the official uplay formus. There's quite a movement going on among the enraged paying customers who can't play their games. They range from upset cries, through pleads aimed at community magagers all the way to threats of boycott, piracy and even a lawsuit or two.

http://forums.ubi.com/forumdisplay.php/259-Uplay

what do escapists think of this?


EDIT:
One of the customers contacted support and this was the response he received:
http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/691193-Cannot-log-into-Uplay?p=8473097&viewfull=1#post8473097
Haven't just suffered a slight version of that exact problem myself. I gave it time to sort itself out and I logged in this morning when I got home from work.

It worked first time.
 

Waaghpowa

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Zhukov said:
Whelp, that explains why my Steam copy of AC:R hasn't been working.

Although in my case I can't even get to the login screen. It just says "unable to find game launcher".

Ugh.

Why the fuck do I even need a game launcher?
I thought they got rid of the online thing. Last time I played AC:B, I could play offline.

OT: I stopped buying games from Ubisoft quite some time ago, you people should start doing the same. And for anyone who says "Well it doesn't effect me because I play on , fuck off. A company is willfully screwing people over and you support them? Way to be passive and apathetic. This is why companies think they can treat us all like shit and walk all over us as consumers.

Also, if they don't care about PC games, then why bother even making them? Probably because it actually makes them money.
 

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malestrithe said:
Honestly, it does not bother me. People, if you have to play games on PC, you need to expect something like this happening. A game is more likely to be pirated from PC than gotten legitimately. Sorry, but whether true or not, that's reality.
And their game launcher will stop pirates from cracking their games. Sound logic.
 

TheCommanders

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I can't wait to see if they can come up with as "brilliant" a spin for this as the EA PR team did after the Mass Effect 3 fiasco:

(Link for those who don't remember)

EDIT- I was trying to find a link, but everywhere I looked I could only find broken links. Perhaps the dunces at the EA marketing department actually realized how insulting the poster sounded.

It was the poster about: oh we've had 75 perfect scores, and the ending is the most talked about in gaming history.

EDIT to the EDIT:

Found an version of the image that contains a rather aptly voiced response to the insulting marketing tactic:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/Nef77/onlineimagelinks/MEcounterADenhanced.jpg
 

orangeban

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I like to think that all the game publishers in the world are working together to see who can troll the user the most without being properly called out.

So far: Valve has been disqualified for providing actual usefulness in exchange for the bullshit. Blizzard has been called out, and Ubisoft is like a kid in an egg and spoon race who throws the spoon away and sprints in the wrong direction without any clothes on. Suffice to say, they got called out.

Personal story, when did I properly get sick of all the bullshit? When I realised that I had a game that required three seperate logins to three seperate systems to play. Can't remember which game sadly, or all the systems, I just remember Steam and GFWL.
 

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DrVornoff said:
malestrithe said:
Honestly, it does not bother me. People, if you have to play games on PC, you need to expect something like this happening. A game is more likely to be pirated from PC than gotten legitimately. Sorry, but whether true or not, that's reality.
How does this DRM bullshit stop piracy? No, really. Explain it to me in full detail how these measures stop pirates from being pirates.
Don't you see, if no-one can play their games, pirates can't play them either!

Except, y'know, in this case the pirates are the only ones who *can* play the game.

But details, details!
 

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DVS BSTrD said:
How many times are you people going to let this happen before you realize that letting the developer control your access to a game after you bought it for anything other than an MMO IS UNACCEPTABLE!?
I realized that quite some time ago, probably why I almost never buy games with this kind of control unless I don't care.

So far the only recent situation was D3 and personally the least offensive thing was that limitation, the rest of the game did enough on its own to push me away. [You may have liked it, holy shit did it disappoint me.]

Ubisoft at least has the good spirit of not really releasing any games worth playing. The AC games can just be gamefly'd or purchased for the console.

Otherwise...the closest another title has come was Settlers and they bogged that down with multiple DRM schemes last I knew.

DrVornoff said:
How does this DRM bullshit stop piracy? No, really. Explain it to me in full detail how these measures stop pirates from being pirates.
If doesn't, the poster forgot the golden rule of not posting when intoxicated.
 

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malestrithe said:
Sorry, but whether true or not, that's reality.
True = Reality. Not true = not reality.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya