The facts of life: A heartfelt defense of Ubisoft and DRM

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Originally Posted by MattDizzle

I'm pretty sure Sh3 and SH4 used to have DRM as well, usually they remove it with a patch after a certain amount of time, right?

NO....SH3 DRM (starforce) screwed up so many computers (CDROM drives stopped working) Ubi removed it because of the Ticked off customers.... seems UBI didnt learn thier lesson. In fact a MAJOR selling point Ubi used with SH 4 is that It DID NOT have the same DRM as SH 3.

Edit: martes is right.... Starforce was not a DRM but a copy protection scheme (a piss poor one at that) that installed a program you couldnt see or manually uninstall. Ubi..while not officially removing it...did distribute the link to the program to uninstall Starforce, and promised the next SH would not have it.