Comments on: DRM Woes Torpedoes Ubisoft Customers

By: Montaigne

Montaigne — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:54:35 +0000

@eric – LOL, so you have dial up so cannot play SUPCOM 2 as you need to download it and it will take too long so…you’re going to get broadband (which will allow you to d/l Supcom 2 in a couple of hours) in order to be a pirate? That’s a pretty dumb response mate.

Also, why would you buy a game that you need to download if you’re on dial-up?

Why are you even on dial up? Phone costs are probably more expensive than if you got Broadband and you can clearly get broadband as you mentioned you will do so to become a pirate!

Man, some people complain for the sake of it.

Back to the topic; I really like the Settlers series but I’ve not bought Settlers 7, even though I’d really like to play it, purely because of the DRM.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:05:13 +0000

well, I bought supreme commander 2 mths ago and I still havnt played it because I’m on dial up, I figure in the range of 18000 minutes to download from steam, while they are worrying about pirates how many people on dial-up have they lost and are saying what I’m saying screw you gas powered games I will not be buying anymore pc video games. I’m going to get broadband and learn to be a f–cking pirate. they should be taken to court on a class action suit for selling me a game I cant play with dial-up. FRAUD
is what its called

By: EntanglementTrick

EntanglementTrick — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:05:21 +0000

I made the mistake of buying a game with DRM, DragonAge:Origins. The package said I could download a free DLC only to find out that I had to have an internet connection to use it. Then the game doesn’t seem to perform on the level of WoW. There was something that just wasn’t right about the game. Corporations are selling us out, it’s no secret. They’ll sell us our own kidneys one day. The people that have money will spend it. No one needs the garbage products that these digital rights people are trying to extort us into paying for. People deserve to pay for a quality product and that’s what they do. These days it’s a malicious legal environment where a person pays for a product that is portrayed to be more than it is, a scam to make people pay for garbage.

By: Ninja

Ninja — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:28:25 +0000

wow, if the fact that a legal SH5 user was the responsible for the cracking because their servers failed then this is one of the most colossally epic failure I’ve ever heard of.

And the fact that 85% of their LEGAL and possibly REGULAR customers won’t buy if they don’t remove the DRM is just nice proof that Darwin will either kill DRM or Ubisoft along with it if they fail to remove it ASAP.

By: danny

danny — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:56:50 +0000

DRM IS FAKE AND GAY, FUCK COPYRIGHT, AND ALL THEM MONEY GRABBING COMPANIES, YEAAAAARRRRR!! THE PIRATES ARE HERE TO STAY….!!

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By: Ninjafroggie

Ninjafroggie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:33:29 +0000

Well, it’s official, the security DRM on silent hunter 5 has been completely defeated. A combination of the skidrow crack and a manual workaround to flag missions completed by editing .cfg savegame files has allowed players to enjoy the full game with no connection to ubisoft’s drm servers whatsoever. Is this solution yet easy enough to drive ubi’s paying customers into playing cracked versions over the legal copies they purchased? Not yet, no. But, in just one week, the “uncrackable” DRM has been completely defeated. Now that the pirate community knows how to fool the game into thinking its getting the information it needs from the server, it’s only a matter of time until someone packages it into one neat, easy, hassle free to use crack and ubisoft can kiss their legal user base goodbye, especially if they continue to have any kind of disruption of service whatsoever. Contgratulations ubisoft…pirates-1, you-0. I hope the massive loss of face amongst gamers you have suffered due to your greed was worth the 7 days it took hackers to defeat your copyright protection, and I seriously hope that these games become the most pirated of all time. Ubi may say that we have to “get used to it, because its here to stay”…but a “beatings will continue until morale improves” policy is not the way to put money in your pockets. Some idiots will always be parted from their cash, but 85% of the subsim.com community refuses to buy sh5 until the DRM is removed…that proves that ubisoft is on the wrong track if they want to stay in the gaming buisiness. Companies like ubi need to talk to companies like valve and futuremark and realise the only way to defeat piracy is to create a game that gamers WANT to spend their money on.

I just want to make sure that i make this clear…The person that discovered the way to bypass the DRM to allow mission progress was a legal owner of SH5 that was unable to play due to spotty internet. The solution was originally posted to ubisoft’s forums, but they swiftly removed it (heaven forbid anyone else see!). Fortunately they didn’t remove it in time to prevent somebody seeing it, and the information has already spread around the internet, with copies of the posting appearing in links on sites like the pirate bay. 7 days ubisoft. JUST 7 DAYS.

NEVER bet against the internet. These are the only people in the world balsy enough to challenge the church of scientology. These are the people that governments seek not to prosecute, but to offer jobs in information security. Hard to immagine that governments are being more proactive about realising that you cannot defeat them, only hope to get them to join you…but its the truth. You hear that ubisoft? You officially fail worse than the US federal government.

By: Truther

Truther — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:35:31 +0000

Ubisoft gets what it deserves.

Make a good game like Splinter Cell Chaos Theory was.

By: Anon202

Anon202 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:06:59 +0000

I agree with Ninjafroggie regarding Valve (+ Steam). They’re the only company whose games I buy anymore (with the exception of Bad Company 2 last night b/c I’ve heard from 10+ people that it’s very very good).

By: devanite

devanite — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:13:07 +0000

Yes because we all want to play online for with each other, wait 8 hours for a fail raid to sicken me of the game, oh wait, that sounds like WoW!