Ubisoft fights Stingy Pete.

[Black]

http://www.infoaddict.com/ubisofts-new- ... r-25-hours

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrF5x1OSJuQ

 

[Sceptic]

Is anyone actually surprised by this shocking turn of event?

 

[Stoiv]

Wonder if they're going to patch this "feature" out of their games now.

 

[Gerrard]

 

[Droog White Smile]

Stringy, not Stingy

FFS

 

[Black]

Stringy, not Stingy

FFS

I don't give a shit about characters from your shit games.
BG2 > Arcanum > Fallout 1 * 2 < Dragon Age = Ubisoft ^ Mass Effect.

 

[Sceptic]

BG2 > Arcanum > Fallout 1 * 2 < Dragon Age = Ubisoft ^ Mass Effect.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

One day? After all the shit DRM Ubisoft loaded into the game, and they still only managed one day? I really hope we see a few suicides at Ubisoft in the coming weeks. They should be ashamed.

 

[TheCowburner]

Poor Ubisoft and their new DRM policy. But please don't cry Ubisoft, you can fix this, you can defeat the pirates! Keep fighting the good fight!

 

[MetalCraze]

Pirates will play, "legitimate" customer retards will pay

 

[Sceptic]

or we could just go and buy/pirate some good games instead.

 

[Muty]

Well I just saw a silent hunter V torrent, which uses this stupid DRM and its already cracked. Smooth move Ubisoft

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Good job I must say

 

[Luzur]

and once again, the good guys have won.

 

[Yeesh]

Responding to numerous reports that their online DRM has been cracked, Ubisoft informs Edge Online that the digital rights management in Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 has not actually been cracked. Word is: "Please know that this rumor is false and while a pirated version may seem to be complete at start up, any gamer who downloads and plays a cracked version will find that their version is not complete."

 

[Muty]

Responding to numerous reports that their online DRM has been cracked, Ubisoft informs Edge Online that the digital rights management in Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 has not actually been cracked. Word is: "Please know that this rumor is false and while a pirated version may seem to be complete at start up, any gamer who downloads and plays a cracked version will find that their version is not complete."

You bet its not complete. It lacks the DRM part

 

[spekkio]

1.1 Update by Skidrow is already in the tubes, but it's simply cracked 1.1 official patch, not a fix / prop...

So Ubisoft released 1.1 patch at the day of premiere and hoped that this will trick teh pirates.

:facepalm:

 

[Muty]

I can hear the screams from ubisoft HQ from here

 

[Fowyr]

and once again, the good guys have won.

This

 

[DraQ]

Responding to numerous reports that their online DRM has been cracked, Ubisoft informs Edge Online that the digital rights management in Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 has not actually been cracked. Word is: "Please know that this rumor is false and while a pirated version may seem to be complete at start up, any gamer who downloads and plays a cracked version will find that their version is not complete."

You bet its not complete. It lacks the DRM part

Which is arguably the best part of ubi games, being an endless cornucopia of lulz.

 

[TNO]

Jesus Christ. How the hell are pirates so good at this? There needs to be some level scaling.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

Jesus Christ. How the hell are pirates so good at this? There needs to be some level scaling.

My guess is they either:

A. Got the game early. Stores have them in stock a week or two ahead of time, all it takes is one guy who knows a guy who works at a retail store somewhere. The most probable option.
B. Got a leaked beta version of the game which didn't have the DRM in it. Rare, but quite possible. Ubisoft surely doesn't have the DRM enabled when they were developing the game. This is why you see so few beta's for games these days, devs are afraid you will take the non-DRM'ed beta *.exe as an almost already pre-made crack.
C. or Ubisoft just really, really sucks at making effective DRM. Unlikely for most games nowadays, but Ubisoft could certainly find a way to fuck it up if they really tried.

 

[Sceptic]

Option D: DRM is just ineffective and easy to hack for those with programming knowledge.

 

[deshields538]

My understanding is that quite a few hackers see DRM as an enjoyable challenge to be overcome. They'll always find a way.

 

[Schattenjäger]

Victory at sea!

Ubisoft surely showed its honor. Actually, make that the "other honor".

 

[SCO]

Option D: DRM is just ineffective and easy to hack for those with programming knowledge.

You think decompiling c++ shit is just a walk through the park?

Might want to contribute to scummvm if so.