Comments on: Ubisoft: DRM issues “regrettable,” claims to have resolved it quickly as possible

By: Jackson

Jackson — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:45:12 +0000

In reply to James S.. DRM sucks, yes, but games have always been expensive. Do not expect them to be lowered in your lifetime. Steam has been my solution, there are always weekend deals taking 50% or more off relatively new games, as well as indie games that are almost good as or better than the new games. Games like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2 have a giant mod community behind them, so you can always expect new content, game modes etc in the same game. I believe every game should have a multi-player feature, especially Skyrim. Multiplayer adds so much to the purchase.

By: James S.

James S. — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:06:53 +0000

Lower the prices. Remove the DRM. DRM = wasting time and resources implementing an unnecessary system which purposely breaks the software under certain conditions and renders it unusable. This drives up production costs, and DIRECTLY takes away development resources, which piracy does not do. The time and resources would be better spent fixing bugs in the game. Furthermore, they price themselves out of the market by making games $60 a pop. I want to play a LOT of games, and I cannot afford to play a lot of games when they are $60 a pop. I will gladly spend $60 to $120 a month to play games, BUT NOT FOR ONLY TWO GAMES. So I pay for and play NO GAMES. Video games are for the rich, or they’re for a market where only a few big companies can flourish or ever get their games seen by a large audience. Fuck that. Companies that use DRM can go fuck themselves.

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:17:32 +0000

He has to say stuff like “That’s something that, as an industry, we sometimes succeed in and sometimes fail at”, because if he was talking about Ubisoft specifically it would be all fail all day.

The only people who don’t hate Ubisoft DRM are pirates – they never see any of it.

By: a

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:42:20 +0000

Steam is the balancing point. It’s obviously what customers want, so just shut up and give it to them. If you choose to add more DRM, more people will simply choose not to buy your games.