Comments on: ‘DRM vital to our business’ says Ubisoft

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:04:58 +0000

I wont buy any game thats more expensive than $20 and I will NOT buy this DRM crap. I’ll just wait for the crack.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:22:47 +0000

joe said:
“as long as they keep using drm, i will keep pirating ubisoft games.”
my reply:
And joe, that is why they keep producing drm’d games. The answer isn’t to pirate them. Just don’t play them and tell everyone else you know not to play them either. Pirating them only makes them want to lock the games down tighter.

By: joe

joe — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:53:50 +0000

as long as they keep using drm, i will keep pirating ubisoft games.

By: James

James — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:03:08 +0000

This in no way harms “pirates”, or downloaders who have or had no intention of buying it. Seriously. If the crack is “zero day” that’s actually weeks LATE for this stuff (in one such case, tricks the game into saving to your harddrive and thinking its online. Pretty easy actually, without going too much into detail).
The only ones any DRM affects, are legitimate, paying customers, who have to deal with high prices. DRM is expensive, troublesome -especially crap like this- and downright anti-consumer.

By: Lancer

Lancer — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:18:20 +0000

I really do understand wanting to protect your intellectual property, and on the other hand, wanting to be paid for a product you created. But there is really no reason whatsoever to ban ALL players from being able to enjoy the copy of the game that they purchased because Ubisoft and many other companies don’t want a few people to steal it. The fact is that people generally buy games, music and movies they enjoy. Only a few pirate it – mostly because of lower quality and a chance for malicious “add-ons”. They keep this up, and more and more people are going to turn to pirated copies just to say “screw you”.

By: Shushunmire

Shushunmire — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:38:24 +0000

Ubisoft has lost any potential business from me permanently due to their new DRM. I wonder how long it will take them before they learn that DRM only hurts legitimate customers. Their new DRM system was cracked within 24 hours of release, so pirates are not effected.