Ubisoft commit commercial suicide

[jlauro]

daggy said:

jlauro said:

daggy said:

jlauro said:
Personally I prefer always online to play over CD required on PC games.

Who goes anywhere without an internet source? Seriously, it happens occasionally but pretty rare these days. This is a plus for PC games.

I find it funny how the majority of the people complaining about this don't have any PC games listed by their avatar. CD is a bigger pest than being online for most PC gamers.

I have over 50 games bought on Steam, and tomorrow I'm going to buy Psychonauts on Steam for only $2.

Most PCs bought nowadays are laptops, which means there is an expected travel period while being used, and during that time you won't be able to play AC2.

 

Exactly my point.  You have to be online to purchase via Steam.  You just proved you are online and you don't like to deal with CDs.  Most games purchased via steam only use Steams DRM instead of what is otherwise on the CD.  Most people while they travel are at a remote site or hotel that has wireless, so even if Steam doesn't trump the standard DRM like I suspect it would it doesn't matter.  Wireless is available pretty much everywhere I have ever traveled in the past 5 years on a daily basis or on special trips.  It's available inside and outside all over work and school and most of the city.

You don't need to be online for you to play Steam games, that is the difference and the real issue.

I can go offline and just play whatever Steam I have installed, no worries. Steam is perfect for laptops. What Ubisoft is trying to do isn't.

 

Did you read my reply?  You don't even know if you have to be online if you purchase the game from Steam!  That DRM is for CD purchases, and it may or may not apply to Steam..  If you don't like the DRM, don't buy it.