Comments on: Ubisoft’s Uber DRM Cracked Within a Day

By: DRM Woes Torpedoes Ubisoft Customers | Yooxe

DRM Woes Torpedoes Ubisoft Customers | Yooxe — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:32:19 +0000

[...] month, though, they released info on their new DRM system, which was (at least partially) cracked within a day of Silent hunter 5’s release. That new DRM (“Online Services Platform” or OSP) system has [...]

By: lol

lol — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:49:56 +0000

the scene should launch an attack on ubisoft servers

would be a good thing

By: Ninjafroggie

Ninjafroggie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:30:23 +0000

Well, it’s official, the security DRM on silent hunter 5 has been completely defeated. A combination of the skidrow crack and a manual workaround to flag missions completed by editing .cfg savegame files has allowed players to enjoy the full game with no connection to ubisoft’s drm servers whatsoever. Is this solution yet easy enough to drive ubi’s paying customers into playing cracked versions over the legal copies they purchased? Not yet, no. But, in just one week, the “uncrackable” DRM has been completely defeated. Now that the pirate community knows how to fool the game into thinking its getting the information it needs from the server, it’s only a matter of time until someone packages it into one neat, easy, hassle free to use crack and ubisoft can kiss their legal user base goodbye, especially if they continue to have any kind of disruption of service whatsoever. Contgratulations ubisoft…pirates-1, you-0. I hope the massive loss of face amongst gamers you have suffered due to your greed was worth the 7 days it took hackers to defeat your copyright protection, and I seriously hope that these games become the most pirated of all time. Ubi may say that we have to “get used to it, because its here to stay”…but a “beatings will continue until morale improves” policy is not the way to put money in your pockets. Some idiots will always be parted from their cash, but 85% of the subsim.com community refuses to buy sh5 until the DRM is removed…that proves that ubisoft is on the wrong track if they want to stay in the gaming buisiness. Companies like ubi need to talk to companies like valve and futuremark and realise the only way to defeat piracy is to create a game that gamers WANT to spend their money on.

I just want to make sure that i make this clear…The person that discovered the way to bypass the DRM to allow mission progress was a legal owner of SH5 that was unable to play due to spotty internet. The solution was originally posted to ubisoft’s forums, but they swiftly removed it (heaven forbid anyone else see!). Fortunately they didn’t remove it in time to prevent somebody seeing it, and the information has already spread around the internet, with copies of the posting appearing in links on sites like the pirate bay. 7 days ubisoft. JUST 7 DAYS.

NEVER bet against the internet. These are the only people in the world balsy enough to challenge the church of scientology. These are the people that governments seek not to prosecute, but to offer jobs in information security. Hard to immagine that governments are being more proactive about realising that you cannot defeat them, only hope to get them to join you…but its the truth. You hear that ubisoft? You officially fail worse than the US federal government.

By: Buump

Buump — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:13:50 +0000

As u may have noticed the previous comment is incoplite becose i didnt want to fuel the pirates,but the point is that drm has been cracked as intended.It appears the online thing just retags mission config files as completed and nothing is downloaded,and i guess the same goes for Ac2.
But u ppl are missing the point.This is not about the pirates anyway it is about control.What they are doing is in direct conflict with US 1st amandment(feel free to do a reaserch),not to mention canadian laws.Do a reasearch about copyright and study Eula.U will sure get the kick out of it.

By: Buump

Buump — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:52:30 +0000

From a user named ZYGMYNT on ubi forums abt sh5:
I’ve bought LEGAL copy of Silent Hunter 5 (becouse i love the series, and above all i have only legal software in my comps, pirate sucks when you already earning your own money, its good for dull kids).
BUT
Most often im using my laptop G3 radio internet connection due to large number of trips and so on, i dont have any games on my stationary comp.
So…
I’ve come with new Silent hunter 5 box Veryhappy to my house and…

I installed bow, configured Typing that game and so.. I ve GET TOTALLY ****ED Mad BECOUSE i paid for it and its MINE MINE MINE!!!! Angry UBISOFT MOTHER****ERS! Smash
Which idiot from zou developed that freaking protection of that ****ing DRM ?
I want play in my house up in the forest when i have NO INTERNET in anyway, cable or radio, so what im supossed to do?
IDEA!
I’ve searched forums with potential cracks and scene of crackers only to find that we have no any working solution ( when we use one of them we don’t have possibility to advance in campaign becouse our mission progress is stopped , no matter how good we did our patrols or how many ships we sunk) , its sucks.
So i discover solution by myself and hues what its working!

SO MY BROTHERS IN THE SEA!! Lets roll our campaign without any illegal cracks! **** THE UBI and **** the Pirtaes!

S T E P 1 -> LEARNING the GAME STRUCTURE Briefing) lets choose briefing and listen news about situation on the front.

After that lets look on the upper left side of the briefing screen, You will see grey menu with crosses and orange triangle icon below them.

Crosses are MAIN camapign OBJECTIVES called MISSIONS. Each Cross represent one of the MISSIONS that will show up on the specific date.
Yes, yes you are thinking good – its a simple script text trigger, well stated in some of the game CFG FILES. Lets left theory of that for later now.
Each MISSION have 2 main PARAMETERS , represent by the MISSION WAYPOINTS and MISSION PROGRESS BAR (that small bar , you can see after click at MISSION WAYPOINT – it is shown under MISSION DESCRIPTION).

Okay, MISSION PROGRESS BAR is the MAIN PAIN for us all here.

NOW …

Lets leave our lovely Dock for a while and press ALT+TAB .

Lets follow to the Silent Hunter 5 install directory, lets use a template location for an example:

F:\SH5

so we go there.

Inside our main game folder we go to the DATA : F:\SH5\DATA next to the CAMPAIGNS : F:\SH5\DATA\CAMPAIGNS ,
here lies our kingdom of evil.

Lets take a look at Achievments.cfg file with little help of WORDPAD.
As you can see here we have CAMPAIGN MISSIONS rewards and their ID names .

Now lets take a look at another folder inside called CAMPAIGNPROJECTS so F:\SH5\DATA\CAMPAIGNS\CAMPAIGNSPROJECTS

here we have 2 main interesting files/folders

One is called COMMON (folder) and rest are the names of each CAMPAIGN in the game, first is TOTAL_GERMANY (folder).
Its a first CAMPAIGN we can play after the tutorial and a door to the whole game.

Main problem to player without net connection , using no net crack is that game BLOCKING , MISSION BAR PROGRESS and we can’t have our MISSIONS completed, they just last
in the CHIEF NAVY COMMANDER [CNC] after return from our patrol, no matter how well we complete MISSION OBJECTIVES (i.e. sunk 50.000 tonnage, sunk ships at Coast of UK etc) , MISSION CROSSES nad MISSION PROGRESS BAR stay at zero level. When MISSION is complete, MISSION CROSS should change from empty symbol to metal/silver cross symbol.
Okay.
But ,lets focus on the fact that MISSION TRIGGERS are updating , becouse they are closely linked to the PASSING CALENDAR DATES, (just above MISSION menu – left upper corner) , as well as in the game and same in the script text files. So best exmaple is mine campaign, after skipping tutorial (its a must to skip that, becouse if you don’t do that you don’t have starting mission choices in the first talk to [CNC]. When i skipped tutorial moronic mission” INVASION of POLAND” i have 2 missions to choose 1″BRITISH SUPPLIES” and 2″BRITISH COASTAL WATERS”.
So i choose 1 (supplies) and sail to my first real patrol.
As time passed by i get third mission while being at open sea (that damn stormy Atlantic) called “BLOCKADE of GERMANY” , so mission pop-ups depended on DATE is working.

Thats the fact.

Lets get back to our F:\SH5\DATA\CAMPAIGNS\CAMPAIGNSPROJECTS folder.

Lets enter folder with TOTAL_GERMANY campaign.
There will be file called: CAMPAIGN.CFG open it with WORDPAD.

Lets take a closer look at first section of that file (all campaigns have exactly same structure in files):

—————————————————————————————–
in >>> … <<>>ITS A MAIN CAMPAIGN INFO in GENERAL<<>>ITS A MAIN CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES and VICTORY INFO in GENERAL<<>>ALSO WE HAVE MAIN CAMPAIGN COMPLETE and FAIL INFO , and SCRIPT NAME<<>>>ITS A START OF MISSION TREE text files, and here we have MISSION NAME/
ID name of the OBJECTIVE/POINTS of CAMPAIGN TRIGGER/ MISSION NAME/ID name of the OBJECTIVE/POINTS of to continue to next CAMPAIGN (side paths in campaign)its is called OBJ, as you can see we have also
“ObjActivationAchievements=” its a required OBJ to have if TRIGGER of some of the missions should work
and same thing to some campaigns <<<>>>Below they are lines with above mission’s SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES “PERSOBJ” [PO]
as You can see we are given objectives of the tutorial mission here, look at
the :
“IsTonnage=false
Tonnage=0
NumOfShips=3
“We can see that its not important how much tonnage we gonna sink but number of ships, in this mission we have to sink 3 of them ” , yes second idea we have here is, WAIT these mission OBJECTIVES have progress, when we sink these 3 ships we have MISSION COMPLETE STATUS and can go further, yes without need of connection to the UBISOFTCKERS SERVERS (try with patch no net), it works, why? We must get closer look at that mission and compare it to others. Lets take a look at the below line called: “RelatedMapLocations=” , look after = we have nothing , no specified area of operations not like in the for example WESTERN APPROACHES circle (its a British Supplies mission), interesting ? huh?<<>>>That’s all , in this file below we have next mission SCRIPT TEXTS
same scheme like above. WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT take closer look and note that we have
2 more important things here (look at first 2 blocks of text:
1) “VALUE POINTS” [VP]
2) ” IS COMPLETED=false” / “IS FAILED=false” trigger <<>>TYPE HERE TRUE<<>>TYPE HERE TRUE<<>>TYPE HERE TRUE<<>>TYPE HERE TRUE<< DANCING WITH THE TEXT FILES AND SCRIPTS >>enter that line i mean Happytimes40<<>>enter that date i mean 19400610<<>>make sure it is YES<<<
Interior=data/Interior/NSS_Uboat9/NSS_Uboat9
UnitType=200
MaxSpeed=19.3
MaxSpeedSubmerged=6.9
Length=87.7
Width=7.6
RenownAwarded=140

[Salvo]
1=1,3,2,4
2=1,2,4
3=1,3,4
4=1,4
5=2,3
6=1,3
7=2,4
8=5,6

[Properties]
PeriscopeDepth=14;meters
SnorkelDepth=15;meters
CrashDepth=70;meters
MaxDepth=500;meters
SurfaceDepth=8;meters
TorpLaunchMaxDepth=20;meters
StormConditions=12,0.4;max wind speed [m/s], max rain intensity [0,1]

[EngineProperties]
AllStop=0.00
AheadSlow=0.20
AheadOneThird=0.30
AheadStandard=0.6
AheadFull=0.80
AheadFlank=1.00
BackSlow=-0.2
BackStandard=-0.40
BackFull=-0.53
BackEmergency=-0.66

Okay!

By: X

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:25:38 +0000

If you go with ubisoft well… ubigay then.

By: Ninjafroggie

Ninjafroggie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:42:13 +0000

@152: indeed that game was shit. They can blame poor sales on piracy all they want, but in reality nobody wanted to buy it in the first place. You can’t blame poor sales on piracy when you make a shit product.

By: Really?

Really? — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:15:27 +0000

@dave9k

You’re missing a crucial point here. Prince of Persia failed because it was a shit game. I should know, I actually PAID for a legal copy. Waste of money. Don’t let that stop you blaming the pirates for everything though.

By: Ravensilver

Ravensilver — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:34:41 +0000

I sent mine back, even though I had the White Edition and I *am* a little sad that I’m missing out on the statue. But no statue is worth the hassle that Ubisoft is putting us customers through.
I buy an *offline* game, I want to *play* it offline – like on vacation, for example, when I actually have *time* to play. But no internet – which is why it’s a vacation!
I’m all for protecting products from piracy. I *buy* my games, my DVDs, my CDs, in order to support the artists and the developers. But I won’t let a company tell me when, where and *if* I’m allowed to play a game that I paid a lot of money for and that’s being sold as an *offline* game.

When I want a MMORPG, I log into my EQ2 account.

So. No AC2 for me. Maybe better that way… *eyes stack of work on desk* ^^

By: Ninjafroggie

Ninjafroggie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:12:25 +0000

@149:

It’ll certainly be quite the feather in their cap, won’t it?

By: JohnnyA

JohnnyA — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:50:46 +0000

@148

Even if the servers are down because of a DDos attack it just goes to show how fundamentally flawed their DRM is. Someone with a big enough botnet stops people playing their bought and paid for games… If I’d bought SH5 or AC2 I’d be livid!!

And just to set the record straight the DRM hasn’t been fully cracked. Sorry to rain on everyone’s parade. I wish it was as much as the next guy, so UBI could suck it hard, but right now the crack is only partial.

Both SH5 and AC2 don’t work 100% with the cracks that are out. I’ve no doubt it’s just a matter of time until fully working versions are released, but lets stick to the facts please.

I’m very interested to see whcih cracking group deals the final death blow to this piece of sh!t DRM

By: Ninjafroggie

Ninjafroggie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:31:09 +0000

Have you guys seen the latest load of bull from ubisoft? Suypposedly the problems that have been keeping paying customers from playing are due to a denial of service attack. I'm calling bulls**t on that...Does anyone really expect ubisoft to stand up and admit that their just launched product has flaws, proving everyone that was against their drm scheme correct? Theres 27 PAGES of complaints on ubisoft's forums. 19 pages on steam forums. Well done ubisoft, you're 5 1/2 feet down, keep diggin that hole.... TF- yes, we've been keeping track, and talked about this very problem over on Freakbits

By: Ninjafroggie

Ninjafroggie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:55:04 +0000

As many have said: the only way to make more people pay for your game is to make it good enough that people want to buy it. Ubi obviously doesnt understand the scene community…while there are those that pirate games just to get them free, myself and everyone else i know that pirates games does so because we want to see if the game is worth $60 or not. If it is, we WILL buy it so we can play multiplayer. Crappy tittles, poor support, and ever-more restrictive copy protection that often backfires and results in paying customers being unable to play drove this movement in the first place. The only way to fight it is to concentrate more on quality, less on quantity. If the game is good it will sell, and if it stinks (as most titles do in gamer’s minds, dont even get me started on the decline of gaming quality and the rise of graphics), well, a game that stinks wont sell whether you make it unpirateable or not, and the few copies you do sell will likely not be purchasing another of your products because they feel jipped. I wouldnt pay 200,000 dollars for a ford pinto with a ferrari logo on it, and neither would you. All gamers want is their $60 worth. Give them that, and they will pay.

By: petanews

petanews — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:27:45 +0000

Ubisoft Kopierschutz – Wenn der Online-Spaß zum Offline-Frust wird…

Für viele Käufer von Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed 2 wurde das neue DRM Online-Kopierschutzsystem zur öffentlichen Blamage und gab am Wochenende über mehrere Stunden keine Freigabe zum Spielen. Wenn der Ubisoft Kopierschutz versagt, dann wird der …

By: Virotelisa

Virotelisa — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:17:45 +0000

Let me see, which of the 3 options is more appealing:

1) Buy the game legally, no need to wait for a perfect crack but can’t play everywhere and need an Internet connection.
2) Download the game which might not work 100% for free, no restrictions and perhaps for a better crack.
3) Buy the game to support the game developers, then use a crack to play it everywhere.

Hmmm. Touch choice, but not really. I bought a legal version of Spore, then downloaded a cracked version just in case the authentication servers go down. Doing that was already a WTF for me (What was the added value of buying my game?), but now they even toughen up the restrictions?

Normally i download games and buy them afterwards if i like them. But now i got a feeling i will just download these and play for free – even if they are fun. If they can spend money on such a load of bullocks, they obviously don’t need – or deserve – mine.

By: Jan Schotsmans

Jan Schotsmans — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:15:15 +0000

And a fun update, the authentication servers at Ubisoft were down (maybe still are) and nearly all people that bought the game and didn’t crack it, were stuck unable to play the game.

I’m also wondering, if they have problems with the fileserver that stores the savegame data, (like a complete wipe with the last valid backup being a week old) that would mean many avid gamers loose their entire save for certain games :@ (I played Mass Effect 2 in 4 days with all quests and nearly all achievements)

Idiot DRM at its best

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:58:10 +0000

I bought assassins creed 1, but wish to play the game even if my net connection is down, or for example, I am on a plane flight with no net available. Sorry ubisoft, pirated copys are always an option, I buy games because I want to support you, not because I have no other options, so this time im going warez.

By: SomeDude

SomeDude — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:11:22 +0000

If they spent more time fully testing there products and zero time with counter measures protection they might release a product thats worth buying.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:04:05 +0000

And yet another reason why Ubisoft = UberFail: http://consumerist.com/2010/03/ubisoft-authentication-servers-go-down-no-one-can-play-anything.html

That ought to increase the piracy rates of their games considerably. And for those who don’t pirate, that will definitely result in lost sales.

Imagine that. Something other than piracy causing lost sales. It kind of blows that tired logic out of the water.

By: lolcat

lolcat — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:04:15 +0000

über-DRM
über-fail

By: Ben Dover

Ben Dover — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:03:44 +0000

Decline in sales happens because people.

don’t.

think.

it.

is.

worth.

buying.

Really, doesn’t take a genius to work it out.

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By: SteveO

SteveO — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:22:01 +0000

PFF after my experience with GTA4 im totally turned off from buying games. I have the stupid thing loaded and dont feel like going thru all the garbage(windows live and the other stupid thing) when i start it up. I bought L4D2 from Steam, 2 copies actually, one for me and one for my son, and thats been an incrediable mess with Steam not connecting and my sons account being all messed up. We spent 3 hours lastnite trying to get a new password set-up and have a trouble ticket awaiting reply. All we wanted to do was kill some zombies!!
And besides the fact theres just too many damn games, the communities are all split up and divided and theres just not that many players for every game.Some games will be a hit and most will not be. You cant have a home run EVERY game thats put out. I think their sales have alot to do with that alone. All the games I have dloaded for free and dont play over 20 minutes, hmmm ALMOST every one. They are just not any good. So until I can return products that suck, I will keep taking my chances pirating.

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By: AnyMouse

AnyMouse — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:30:02 +0000

@ Reasoned Mind

Piracy isn’t what drives developers to make ludicrous DRM, fear of piracy and greed does. How simple is it to release a blockbuster title for 60$, and when its pirated, blame the decline in sales on that?

Maybe you should take into account the fact that not everybody has exorbitant amounts of cash laying around, and that 2/3 of $100 per game isn’t fair for content they burn to 0.15$ discs and sell.

As well, you’ve just insulted hundreds of peoples’ hobbies and lifestyles. Take into consideration that they crack this and put work into this for nothing. They do it because they like to and have the skill to do it. I’m pretty sure you’d be offended if somebody came by and outright insulted your interests. Watch what you say, an opinion on an issue is one thing, but insults like that are unwarranted and unwelcome.

By: The Paying Customer

The Paying Customer — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:21:25 +0000

@133
Let me share a story with you.
There was a man (me) who was really excited about SPORE and stood in total awe when it was released. Then went to the store to buy it. When he got home he installed the game, after that he spent 3 days talking some retald at customer support to get the game working. Then SPORE Galactic adventures came out. He bought it of course. This time he spent 5 days e-mailing with another retard at cusomer support then in the end, after 5 days EA offered him a refund.
After this he downloaded the pirated version and it worked fine.
End of story.

By: screw you

screw you — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:44:14 +0000

And please stop feeding the trolls then they shoo off to suck masters balls.

By: screw you

screw you — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:42:22 +0000

Ha ha ha ha, nice one ubi I have just completed it!!

Time for a nap then hopefully when I wake up assassins creed will be ready..

hehehe.

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By: It's Not me, It's YOU

It's Not me, It's YOU — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:45:45 +0000

@93 BS point I’m afraid

You cant prove a negative

I don’t believe in ghosts.

I can’t prove ghosts don’t exist.

I can’t prove each dowload is a lost sale.

But if you wouldn’t have bought it and no-one puts a gun to your head to buy anything.

Why do millions download stuff then? Cause they want i for free. They want to see it, use it or listen to it, but they don’t want to apy for it. Therefore they have stolen it.

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:21:13 +0000

Although the games sound like overrated poop, if I wanted them, I would just download them because I refuse to pay for DRM software. But then again, I am a ‘pirate’ not a ‘customer’…Right Ubi? Who cares what people like me think.

By: Willdoit

Willdoit — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:16:35 +0000

I will buy UBI games the moment they remove this shit DRM.

By: Sorny

Sorny — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:11:07 +0000

Torrent freak, you mentioned this would fail before and now its obvious it will. Good call :D

By: Damnen

Damnen — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:12:08 +0000

I have to pay for the game and I have to pay for the bandwidth to play it? No thanks…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:51:58 +0000

I don’t think I will ever buy a PC game again. They just don’t understand. So I am going to vote with my wallet!

I’m not even interested in either of these games and will not download either. I’ll play some online poker instead. :)

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By: Thraprod

Thraprod — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:44:24 +0000

Silent Hunter 5 and ACII are one player games, not online multiplayers. Therefore if I’m sitting around at, say, my parents house while my kids are visiting, and I want to kill some time playing the game I -bought- and paid for that -isn’t- supposed to be an online game. I should be able to. I AM able to if I download it. If I used the copy I bought, I’d be sitting twiddling my thumbs instead thanks to this DRM.

By: CarThief

CarThief — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:17:44 +0000

@93 (TrustAvidity)

Greatest quote I have seen in some time. I’ve never seen a better response to the “You wouldn’t steal a _____, so why would you steal software?” argument before.

I know a certain website with, um, images and videos on it, that had drm protection for its videos. Less than half a year later, they wised up and removed it. I can’t believe someone thought the same bad idea would work for games.

By: No One

No One — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:09:02 +0000

I got a pirate version of Call of Duty 4 PC, played it 4 times begin to end in all levels of difficulty, wonderfull game, i liked it so much that i wanted to buy it, i wanted the original box and disk, i live in Brazil and games arent exactly cheap here but… i looked everywhere, stores, physical and online, and i couldnt find a single copy to buy, IT WAS SOLD OUT completely.

So i waited for Modern Warfare 2 PC, and started looking for it, cant find anywhere, so i go to the web and find out that the PC version wont come to Brazil because “piracy rates here are too high”…

WHAT THE FUCK are these morons talking about???? Modern Warfare 1 is SOLD OUT i cant buy it, what more do they want to sell, air???

How can piracy rates be high on that game if there is not a single copy available to buy??? FUCK.

So thank you Activision, now i will play MW2 for free.

By the way, i was playing Assassin’s Creed 1 pirate, middle of the game (i loved it too), i bought the original, copy the saves and delete the pirate, very happy that i did it.

I am not going to buy AC2 with that fucking DRM until is gets cracked 100%, if it doesnt get cracked i will play the pirate version the way it is, even if incomplete.

Stupid Ubisoft, stupid Activision.
Sorry for the bad english.

By: TheBuzzSaw

TheBuzzSaw — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:37:39 +0000

You wanna talk about lost sales? I’ll give you a lost sale: Ubisoft, until you remove this DRM, I will not be being AC2. THAT is a definitive lost sale. You can go on moping about how a million pirates are all theoretical lost sales, but I guarantee that blocking all of them would not boost your sales.

By: RIAAtarded

RIAAtarded — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:14:50 +0000

DRM is a hassle only to those that pay for the privilege of owning the product. I have bought games but why should I put up with the lag as it accesses a disk? The game is installed on the PC. First thing most of us do is grab a cracked EXE to eliminate that. The obsessive exercise of control on a product after it is sold though is what drives folks to consider alternative sources. I buy a DVD why should I have to sit through the repeated threats of jail time, hefty fines etc. I obviously paid to avoid that and you know bloody well those the message is targeted at have ripped that out.

Sad fact is the entertain industry created the pirate. Customers want alternatives. I own DVDs however I watch the rips on the HTPC. Why? Convenience plain and simple. DVDs are bulky and a pain. They are prone to damage.

By: The Slick Sign Painter

The Slick Sign Painter — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:50:57 +0000

Everyone went to complain
When DRM sent their game down the drain
So they whipped up a hack
Applied a working crack
Now Ubi is the one that’s payin’

By: Dont try to hide it

Dont try to hide it — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:39:20 +0000

I pirate, I buy a few games but the main reason I pirate is because its free and I dont wanna spend money if I dont have to.

Same reason I steal gum from convience stores and sneak into movie theaters.

Saying the DRM forced you to pirate is hilarious, just admit you dont give a shit about other people and only about yourself.

All these self rightious people saying they pirate for some just cause are dumb and paint us in a bad light.

We pirate because its free and we dont care about you. Call me sick but in reality I’m just telling you your thoughts.

By: creedfan

creedfan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:00:27 +0000

Hey guys, I just wanted to get this out.

I was actually going to buy the game just to support the Assassin’s Creed game series.

UNTIL I heard of the DRM, then I got pretty skeptical about if I should even buy the game… So I canceled my preorder just to reconsider.

And now that I see that the DRM has been cracked, I will just play the cracked version instead of buying it, to protest against this kind of shit.

Cheers from Finland.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:57:38 +0000

gg ubiCRAP!
i want to play offline.

By: z

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:18:20 +0000

Again people who paid their money for a software have to suffer. I’ve thought that after Spore-disaster gaming industry understood that stupid limitations are not a good idea to protect the game. The funniest thing here is the fact that I am wondering what will happen with Ubisoft AC servers used for online verification in let’s say 10 years from now. I’m doubting they will exist (no new income from the game, and someone has to pay for the hardware or even goddamn electricity). So, I will not be able to play in that game in the future – even though I’ve paid for it. And do not say we all will be playing then in CrisisXII – even today am returning to good old games like europa universalis 2, rome total war, operation flashpoint, firts ghost recon etc.

By: DeltaPan

DeltaPan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:17:53 +0000

Should be…
Were trying to make the point back then when ‘puters *that had* 386 chips were top of the range and Commodore 64 ruled the developed world because so simple compared to IBM or Acorn etc.

Peace. :)

By: DeltaPan

DeltaPan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:09:59 +0000

Absolutely correct!

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5332261/1985_Computer_Chronicles__Software_Piracy
[Sorry, only torrent with 1 seed at this post timestamp, but worth watching if interested in how long DRM's have been ineffectual.]

How old is that??!!

Were trying to make the point back then when ‘puters when 386 chips were top of the range and Commodore 64 ruled the developed world because so simple compared to IBM or Acorn etc.

Decades on, DRM’s are still being used in vain by antipiracy, however the tech’ curves rise, DRM’s remain futile.

What was it old Albert Einstein said about insanity?

Peace. :)

By: an0n

an0n — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:26:26 +0000

So I guess this means I can’t play UBI games on the games PC in my basement. The one that doesn’t have access to the Interwebz

Oh well. I guess there’s no point in me spending money on UBI games in future.

By: an0n

an0n — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:26:08 +0000

Soes this mean I can’t play UBI games on the games PC in my basement? The one that doesn’t have access to the Interwebz

Oh well. I guess there’s no point in me spending money on UBI games in future.