There's at least one company looking at doing just that, though not for DRM. It's only a matter of time before they fail to get permission from game publishers to host titles on their servers and turn to whatever they can make fast cash off of, though.JinxyKatte said:
I don't know, I've got some disks kicking around with Starforce on them. Not everyone out there understands what DRMs are, or knows what the DRM for AssCreed2 requires. (To be fair to myself, I just didn't know about starforce when I bought them. Today, in light of the facts, I kinda don't care about that one.Caliostro said:
Meh, quite a few of them resent the decision made by the upper-ups in Paris but at least it's not like the game is a PC exclusive. Now they'd be pissed. But since it has been out on consoles for a while, money was made and people saw the game. It's important to remember how big Ubi is. There are the devs and then there are the publisher. It's two different entities. It's like the people saying "hur hur Ubi makes so many bad [something]z games". No they don't. They just publish them.GnomeThief said:
I'm sure that'll hold up real well in courtPhunkyPhazon said:
Sure it is. If I give you a gun and you kill a man with it, I may not have pulled the trigger or even told you to fire (in Ubisoft's case, though, they more or less double dared the hackers), but I'm still at least partially responsible. Likewise, if Ubisoft didn't have such a hard-on for counter-piracy measures, they (most likely) wouldn't have pissed anyone off bad enough to hack them and there would be no single-player server to kill in the first place. Both parties are trying to teach the other a lesson and both parties are at fault--especially for thinking that the other will listen.kibayasu said:
Second. And for all of you out there saying, "I'm going to stick it to Ubisoft by torrenting the game," just don't. Your anger is justified, but considering how industry bigwigs tend to handle this kind of shit, they'll likely ignore the part that they played in this and use the increase in piracy to support their DRM crusade. Then again, if you actually listen to me and piracy goes down, they'll likely say it was because the DRM works so well... Hm...ShadowKirby said:
The comments on that forum made my eyes bleed from the concentration of stupidity and terrible grammer.PhunkyPhazon said:
There's a lot of trolling going on, though. Lot of low low post counts and, c'mon, someone posting as the Sonichu guy? Really?matrix3509 said:
I'm rooting for you, buddy. Still, I can't shake the feeling that this is all going to drastically backfire somehow. I mean, crafting a newer, more restrictive method of DRM apparently seemed like a logical step from Ubisoft's warped perspective, so wouldn't it make sense for them to try and force a harsher method in response to all this?Funkysandwich said:
Yeah, I suppose eventually when you go to buy a Ubisoft game they won't actually give you a copy at all.commasplice said:
WORSE? Good lord, it hardly seems possible. What's worse than selling a game it's impossible to legally play? They'd have to kill your DVD drive, root your box, take pictures of you with your webcam, make your fans spin backwards and your videocard vomit sparks, delete your porn and music, AND send a guy around every Tuesday to kick you in the nuts.commasplice said:
I hear that's the DRM they are going to use in Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands.Formica Archonis said: