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jefforange89 on 19 February 2010

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Galaki on 19 February 2010

Yeah, I don't understand the unskippable parts. You're forced to go though all that junk each and every time you want to watch your purchased movie.



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vlad321 on 19 February 2010

Ubisoft has started doing damage control! You know something sucks the big one when the company behind it starts doing major damage control before its official release.



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HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

arsenicazure on 19 February 2010
WilliamWatts said:
If they see piracy as being that much of a problem and it helps them combat it and in turn achieve higher revenues then I cannot see it as being anything but an overall positive thing for PC gamers that actually pay for the content.

There is no progress made here. This topic has already been beaten to a bush. Bad idea=bad sales.I just feel sorry for the ppl who purchase this title without prior knowledge about this draconian DRM. Good luck to them.



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Senlis on 19 February 2010

What I thought was really bad is that I bought Bioshock 2 off of steam, running the game legitimately through steam, and I also have to go through Windows Live DRM to save. I lost an hour of progress because I discovered I couldn't save until it was too late.

I don't blame the publishers, I blame the pirate. Pirates managed to steal steam games, so publishers add another layer of protection to their games.




 

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zarx on 19 February 2010

another problem with this scheme is the fact every time the games saves the game will create a save file encrypt it and then upload it over your slow Internet connection, then when you want to load the game you have to wait for the save to be downloaded from ubisoft's servers. this means that the game will take longer to save and load the game especially for people that happen to not live somewhere where there is cheap high-speed Internet and forget downloading your next game on steam well you play your OFF-LINE game.



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NJ5 on 19 February 2010

Say goodbye to playing games on a plane, at your vacation house where you don't have Internet, on the train (unless you have a mobile data plan).

All of this not because of some technical reason, just because idiotic managers at Ubisoft decided to impose an artificial restriction.



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vlad321 on 19 February 2010
NJ5 said:
Say goodbye to playing games on a plane, at your vacation house where you don't have Internet, on the train (unless you have a mobile data plan).

All of this not because of some technical reason, just because idiotic managers at Ubisoft decided to impose an artificial restriction.

I was studying abroad this summer, horrible firewall at the residence. When the net did show up it was quite slow either. It's just bad news for anyone who travel around. I know I didn't have internet when I moved for 2 months, used the one on campus. So yeah, if I have to get any ubisoft game, I will probably crack it to suit my needs.



Tag(thx fkusumot) - "Yet again I completely fail to see your point..."

HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

Foamer on 19 February 2010

Cracking quote-

Tropico 3 studio Haemimont Games' Ivan-Assen Ivanov said, "I like what Ubisoft is doing for PC games - that way, we and everybody else will look reasonable when we do something slightly less retarded."



vlad321 on 19 February 2010
Foamer said:
Cracking quote-

Tropico 3 studio Haemimont Games' Ivan-Assen Ivanov said, "I like what Ubisoft is doing for PC games - that way, we and everybody else will look reasonable when we do something slightly less retarded."

LOL So true.

Though no DRM will be good for me past the usual CDKey thing.



Tag(thx fkusumot) - "Yet again I completely fail to see your point..."

HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835