http://support.uk.ubi.com/online-services-platform/
You must have an active internet connection to play games, single and multiplayer. A bit OTT in my opinion.
Chances are I will still be buying settlers 7 though.
http://support.uk.ubi.com/online-services-platform/
You must have an active internet connection to play games, single and multiplayer. A bit OTT in my opinion.
Chances are I will still be buying settlers 7 though.
just one more step towards computer games being too much hassle for the makers and the customers, the computer being used only for word processing etc. and the console taking its place.
Must of missed that thread. Least with settlers 7 it saves your game and you can just resume, off any PC which is a nice idea.Assassin's Creed II - DRM requires *constant* internet connection..
With alot of the games it's just resume at the last checkpoint.
Which isn't good. No telling just how much you'll loose if the servers or your internet have a little glitch.
I was planning on buying AC2 and silent hunter 5, but i won't now. It's no biggy as there's plenty other games that'll keep me occupied.
And there will always be a 'complete' or 'gold' edition of either that will appear a while down the line without the DRM.
I don't think they'll keep it given the stink that's kicked up over it, you should check out there forums if in doubt. There poor mods.There sales must take a beating when they introduce this with AC2.
A very SMALL issue to point out here but surely most of us have our internet connection running constantly in the background anyway so when they utilise that to try and prevent piracy people moan.
Does steam not use a similar system although i know it can be made to work offline.
this is no more hassle than installing a pc game
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Quite.
I reckon Ubisoft have been reading How to lose friends and alienate people and based their marketing strategy on it's principles.
..and there's a reason why it has offline mode yeah? Common sense perhaps? We are talking about every darn UBISoft release from now on BTW.
Things wot can go wrong:
- Server goes down (fault, DOS attack etc)
- router reboots
- exchange resets your connection to a new IP (common)
- ISP outage
- connection outage
- desync due to bad line
None of the above is far fetched, in fact it's very common - and whilst authentication is annoying this is plain onerous - nay, odious![]()
Both irrelevant straw man arguments. a) you can't guarantee the internet connection to be up 24/7, you can't guarantee that the purchaser of the game has an always-on connection at all, so for them to require an internet connection to play as single player game is absurd.
b) Just because many don't, it doesn't mean all don't. And what about LAN parties? You don't need an internet connection for those, just rent a big hall, set up a bunch of servers and an ad-hoc network and play. Oh wait, no internet, doesn't work. FAIL. If I bought a car and decided to take a trip up to Belfast, I wouldn't be at all pleased if it conked out just as I crossed the Armagh border 'just in case I don't have insurance for cross-country travel'. DRM has long since gone way too far.
At the end of the day, people who fork over hard earned shouldn't be treated like criminals. It's like when you buy a DVD and basically being accused of being a bloody hardened criminal, and the pirates don't have to watch that crap at all, they just get right to the movie. What part of that is reasonable?
Saracen (23-02-2010)
Yep and that's why AC2's been scrubbed as a potential purchase. If it's implemented in Splinter Cell Conviction, then that's off my list too, along with any other title containing such restrictions.
Had to wait a good couple of years before my land line degraded to the point where BT had to replace it. Whilst I've got a stable connection right now, there's no guarantee it'll remain that way.
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