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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53567

In their ongoing quest to enrage PC players, Ubisoft has come up with a new form of DRM that only allows three activations. Activations are tied to your hardware setup, so every time you change a component it counts as one activation.

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pagb666 · Contributor Joined: 25 Jun 2010 Posts: 23

The 3 activations is old news, the new thing is the hardware part. I did have problems with the 3 activations in the past, when switching over to Win7 and then buying a new comp, I burned my 3 FC2 activations.

They suck.

tride · Elite Member Joined: 27 Feb 2010 Posts: 566

HO HO HO, MEeeeery Christmass everybody!

Laughing

Fuck themm, wont buy any of their shit! Pirate is the way!

Baconnaise · Elite Member Joined: 22 Jun 2010 Posts: 710

Yep. Can't remember the last time I payed for an UBI game. I would of bought anno 2070 off steam but the DRM things makes me avoid their products.

Mojoman · Contributing Member Joined: 14 Jan 2011 Posts: 94

Now it's easier to download and install a pirated game than it is to support this DRM crap.

PirateBay, Warez-bb(.org),MacSerialJunkie,Demonoid, etc FTW.

I've been buying all Indie Humble Bundle and paying generously all times because they deserve. They're doing pretty fine and no DRM from their part.

Sabot · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:29 pm Post subject:

Same old PC... Ever since XP.
Now minimal activations are in everything, from game downloads to films.
Yeah, the PC is king, king of DRM!! M$ invented the shit!!!
M$ along with Apple, two of a kind.
I wonder why we have android hardware in our house............

RayzorBlue · Contributing Member Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 77

Wow this is bad even for Ubisoft, I honestly believe they want to get out of the PC market so instead of admitting it they are just alienating customers so they can blame it on piracy. They no doubt support SOPA as well lol.

-=WolverinE=- · Junior Member Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 212

I wouldn't mind UbiShit to go out of business. They haven't spat out anything of interest to me in a few years anyway.

Ozieo · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 648

Well, aside from the utterly boring & unparalleled repetitiveness Assassins Breed series, I don't know anything worthy at all. This new customer spit-in-the-face is the best promotion for piracy. So, great job Ubisoft, if you would spend as much time in making your games fun instead of copy-pasting 99% of the previous in the series, as you spend on making your (worthless) DRM draw people away, you would perhaps get some good sales.... Well not from me anyway, but perhaps overall it could help.

Kompressor · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:23 am Post subject:

There's an easy fix for this. Just buy the DRM-free version of the game. You can get it for free at a torrent site near you.

Csimbi · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:57 am Post subject:

What are you pitching about? Same deal as Microsoft. Perhaps UBI is a little better because UBI can't detect a BIOS upgrade. The only difference is the Microsoft can afford half of the copies around the work being illegitimate copies; they have other sources of income: from corporate licensing, support, etc.

I gave up on UBI long ago; nothing's changed - except perhaps this time they will manage to truly manage to kill themselves.
I am looking forward to see how it plays out.
UBI is shooting itself in the leg with this. What do you care?

BTW, I would not mind seeing a closure in the end-user agreement like this: if a user as to patch the game more than three times to get the game working, we will refund the user's costs in full.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2652

guys over at guru3d said they wont be using Ubisoft games for benchmarks any more. They discovered Anno2070 had 4 activations but also based on hardware. So if they want, for instance, to use anno 2070 in their reviews for every card they review, every 5th card would require a new copy of the game. With all the oc, uber, goes like shit, lightning expensive and other revisions of the same GPUs it's just insane to do it (buy the game over and over).

But Kompressor is right, there is DRM free copy in the torrent site near you.

Baconnaise · Elite Member Joined: 22 Jun 2010 Posts: 710

I still have Sins of Solar Empire installed and GalCiv 2. SoASE had no protection and I own all the xpacs. It was a great Space RTS from a small dev with a huge amount of mods which made it playable for me for years. I don't forget shit like that and only wish I saw another Homeworld game.

Csimbi · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:06 pm Post subject:

gx-x, I thought those benchmarking sites get hardware and software for free (for the advertisement value).

Baconnaise, as much as I would like to see those games, I would only whisper the names of those titles until UBI (and others with such DRM scheme) die.

Sabot · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:40 pm Post subject: