Ubisoft wants you to rebuy your games everytime you change your graphics card!

[TCPirate]

"Ubisoft have managed to go a month or so without anyone loudly throwing their hands in the air and despairing at their DRM ways. They?ll be relieved to know the drought is over, with tech wizards Guru3D discovering that Ubisoft?s limited activations of their games are not just limited to specific machines, but specific graphics cards.

Tying activations to hardware is not that unusual. Windows does the same. Much like a boat that?s had every plank of wood replaced, it?s a question for philosophers whether a PC with its guts exchanged is still the same PC, and you can?t really license a product to a case. If you change enough of your machine?s insides, Windows will eventually speak up and ask if something?s up. But Ubisoft?s Anno 2070 will refuse to reinstall if you just swap out something as simple as a graphics card."

Source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/16/ubisofts-activations-monitor-hardware-changes/

 

[piplink]

well, im not going to buy anymore ubisoft games in the future, i was going to buy mass effect 3 for xbox, but now im just going to skip out on it all together if this is happening.

 

[Stormz]

And I thought EA was worse then Ubisoft. This is just low on so many levels.

 

[DementedSheep]

They have crap like this and still think pirates are the reason their games aren?t doing so well on the PC? How the hell is this company still around with how many stupid decisions they make?

 

[DustyDrB]

Good God, Ubisoft. I've never seen a company so good at alienating potential customers.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Treating all of your honest customers like felons really isn't a good way to increase sales.

But then... constantly putting out mediocre-at-best games isn't a particularly good way to increase sales either.