Slightly worrying article

[Onkel Neal]

Some of you are going to hate this.

Understatement

[Darkreaver1980]

Well, if the new DRM ist allmost not crackable than i will buy it any day

[Seafireliv]

Looks like UBI KNEW it would be controversial and went ahead anyway. Their jester must`ve told the boss that everything will be alright and not worry about the `few` rebels who will be upset- Everyone else will buy!

Methinks yonder jester will be losing his head soon.

[Heretic]

Originally Posted by Seafireliv

Looks like UBI KNEW it would be controversial and went ahead anyway. Their jester must`ve told the boss that everything will be alright and not worry about the `few` rebels who will be upset- Everyone else will buy!

Methinks yonder jester will be losing his head soon.

Well of course they knew it would cause a sh*tstorm. I'm sure they have it all planned that just need to stick it out for X weeks or X months and it will all blow over. They've made the calculations and done all the marketing research and focus groups and all the stuff corporations do before they spend a dime on anything. They believe that in the long run, they'll lose less sales to piracy than they'll lose to DRM. Time will tell.

[Hitman]

You know, I think that the best solution for fighting effectively piracy and not bothering legitimate users is easy: Set death penalty for pirating games. Once two or three pirates have gone in front of a firing squad after summary trial, the rest of us will be able to enjoy in peace our games

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Hitman

You know, I think that the best solution for fighting effectively piracy and not bothering legitimate users is easy: Set death penalty for pirating games. Once two or three pirates have gone in front of a firing squad after summary trial, the rest of us will be able to enjoy in peace our games

I love you, man

Even better (because it's legal and such, lol) would be to have the developers make a special pirate copy of the game and have many people release it into the wild. After x number of days, the game erases the hard drive and sends an e-mail to the FBI.

[exponent8246]

Originally Posted by Hitman
You know, I think that the best solution for fighting effectively piracy and not bothering legitimate users is easy: Set death penalty for pirating games. Once two or three pirates have gone in front of a firing squad after summary trial, the rest of us will be able to enjoy in peace our games


I second that opinion mate!!! Excellent!

[Nisgeis]

All these 'new' articles seem to just quote the original PC Gamer article - are they the only ones given a review copy of AC2 and Settlers VII? Someone else must have one by now.

[Platapus]

The platform requires a permanent Internet connection. We know this choice is controversial but we feel is justified by the gameplay advantages offered by the system and because most PCs are already connected to the Internet.

Has Ubi described what these gameplay advantages are for the customer. Clearly there are advantages for Ubi, but I am not understanding what they mean by gameplay advantages.

I can tolerate the internet connection requirement if it is just something that Ubi, the owners of software, want. But if they are justifying this requirement by claiming that there are some gameplay advantages for ME, I would be interested in knowing what these advantages are.

[Nisgeis]

Platapus, the advantage is being able to save your games online, so you can play from any computer. I DO NOT PERSONALLY BELIEVE THIS IS AN ADVANTAGE. The other advantage is that there is no limit to the number of PCs you can install this on, though you can only play on one at a time.

EDIT: Made it REALLY clear that I don't agree that this is an advantage. Sheesh last time I try and answer a factual question!

[piri_reis]

Yes, nothing new. The thing is the PCGamer is about AC2, not SH5.
We don't have solid info on how this works, other than Neal showing us some disconnected playtime, which could mean the OSP will differ among different games..

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

Platapus, the advantage is being able to save your games online, so you can play from any computer. The other advantage is that there is no limit to the number of PCs you can install this on, though you can only play on one at a time.

Which to people like me (with one gaming computer to install and play the game on) means absolutely no benefit at all.

[Kapitanleutnant]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

Platapus, the advantage is being able to save your games online, so you can play from any computer. The other advantage is that there is no limit to the number of PCs you can install this on, though you can only play on one at a time.

So the "benefits" are exactly the same as the standard for every single PC game that was released since the PC was invented up until around 2005.
It seems we've taken a step backward somewhere along the line.

[tater]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

Platapus, the advantage is being able to save your games online, so you can play from any computer. The other advantage is that there is no limit to the number of PCs you can install this on, though you can only play on one at a time.

You can save games online NOW. There are services to do this, or you could simply target a network directory for save games, right?

I can install SH4 on any PC that I put the disk in, but only 1 at a time.

I'm not seeing any advantage.

[Gatt]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

Platapus, the advantage is being able to save your games online, so you can play from any computer. The other advantage is that there is no limit to the number of PCs you can install this on, though you can only play on one at a time.

Those advantages are obviously bulls*it since I play only singleplayer and I already can install SH3 and IV on different PC's.

The real reasons are they want more control on players, modding, patching and eventually sell you more u-boat types and war years.