What 'services' there are geared towards the bigger games. They probably didn't think SH5 was big enough to bother with - other then as guinea pig, of course..

Some of the 'cracked' accounts could be UBI techs testing various techniques and counter measures.

Here is an important observation for you:

Just installed the game on my other PC, from the same DVD. I took five seconds between quitting game on one PC and starting it on the other - no complaints from Ubi. Save games were synchronized. Then I went and disabled the server-side save games and tried again - worked as advertised, only my older saves were shared.

All in all, that aspect is at least working as promised. You can indeed install on multiple machines and log in without issues.

Any ideas on if the lan play allows multiple computers running from the same disc/key or will we need to buy a separate copy for each computer? I've been spoiled by games like Supreme Commander that don't care as long as it's lan play.

I don't think it's possible to start the game without a ubi login, so I suspect that'd be a no, at least for the moment.

You might want to be a bit careful about saying that here.

Plain sailing here.

5 hours +

Yeah. Even mentioning the 'C' word is a big no-no.

My russian is a bit rusty ... but still :yep:

As of now there is no cracked copy. There is a good chance that this game will not get cracked. And if it does it wont be for some time:

Here is an interview with a UBI spokesperson

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/53...tion-Interview

Note this part:

Do Ubi believe this DRM is unhackable?
They accept that it's all DRM's fate to be eventually hacked, explaining that internally, they've already talked of a timescale for how long their games will be protected by it. But, they believe that it's secure enough for them. "We wouldn't do it if we didn't believe in it. The guys who designed it believe in it. Do we think that it's the one system that God has sent onto earth that will never be cracked by anybody ever? We can't guarantee that, but we believe in it."

Rise of Flight had the "benefit" of being an unpopular title. Same goes for Steel Beasts Pro - afaik there's no public crack to date.
Assassins Creed 2 is a whole different story - there is some considerable request. And it uses the same DRM scheme as SH5.

I think AC2 will be the major test for this DRM system. If all the games are using it, once it is cracked for one, it will be cracked for all of them. I wait to see what will happen.

Ask Neal, check the policies here...

also i understand your point of view...to say it out loud here is really dangerous. keep it in mind. talking about cracked games, and software piracy is not likely seen here!

It really doesn`t matter how well this DRM 24\7 works or not.

The whole practise is wrong and unacceptable for a SINGLE PLAYER game.

This isn't the point of the thread though, you should leave sentiments like this for our big giant anti-DRM thread.

I agree that the practice is stupid, but I also acknowledge that at least performance-wise, it's been a non-issue for me so far.