The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

[JackAubrey]

Sorry if the Video has already been posted here.

I don't know if you have seen the Ubisoft DRM in Action.

The German Game Magazine "Gamestar" posted a Video on its Facebook Page to show how the DRM works in their Test Version of "Assassins Creed 2". The Network Cable gets unplugged while playing the game.

Basically, the game shuts down, prompts you to save and goes back to desktop.
For you non-germans:
The guy in the Video says at the end, that they cannot say if its really like that in the retail version, but they are fearing that it is. If you use a somewhat unstable WLAN connection, playing would be interrupted.


http://www.facebook.com/video/video....2900728&ref=mf

I also just read:

The victims of PC gaming DRM: one soldier's story

With companies like Ubisoft leading the way to a future where all PC games need to be in contact with their home servers all the time, one group is being particularly harmed by this movement: soldiers stationed in remote locations. Life on deployment is hard, psychologically demanding, and often lonely for soldiers missing their loved ones and families. Gaming is a popular pastime in American bases, but DRM can take that away.

This sort of DRM makes sense for a world where every device is always connected to some magically open and always-on Internet connection. That world is a very long way away, so by requiring an Internet connection at all times to play a game that isn't online itself is simply alienating an audience. This approach also represents a poor attempt to attack piracy by attacking people who want to pay you money for the game you've made impossible for them to play.

via Arstechnica.com