Ubisoft comments on new DRM (will lower/prevent piracy?)

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Originally Posted by gutted

Any software worth cracking can and WILL be cracked.

DRM is only an annoyance to the honest buyer. To those who pirate it, DRM means nothing at all, except maybe even more incentive to pirate it in the first place.

Well, to be fair, neither Black Shark (Starforce-Based one-time activation) nor NeoQB Rise of Flight (always online) have been cracked yet. Okay, these are niche games for the flight simulation crowd, but I truly believe that an "always online" game can be protected - if you need a key to decrypt the game files, and that key is never stored on your system, always flushed after uses - good luck emulating that.

OTOH we know that for World of Warcraft, there exist black servers for pirate players. So if they were able to reverse-engineer a MMORPG server, who knows what these people might be able to do with UBI. Obviously mass market titles will push the incentive for cracker crowds.