Comments on: Has Ubi’s DRM Been Cracked Already?

By: Yachtcharter Griechenland

Yachtcharter Griechenland — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:02:51 +0000

That’s pretty interesting… That’s great, I never thought about Has Ubi’s DRM Been Cracked Already? like that before.

By: user08

user08 — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:00:13 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:56:58 +0000

Hahaha, I lived in the US for years and have a connection here in France that is twice faster than the last one I had over, at about 25mbps.

By: SirKicksalot

SirKicksalot — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:53:18 +0000

Ubisoft’s DRM servers are down… since more than 10 hours ago. Nobody can play the game.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98927-Ubisoft-DRM-Authentication-Servers-Go-Down

So all it took was a weekend with the game not released worldwide.
Ubisoft trolololed a lot of customers:)

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:50:42 +0000

@tab

Good point, I may be wrong about how they calculate those things myself. Regardless, buying it does signal to the publisher that you’re “ok” with the DRM, which isn’t a great message to send. It’d be nice if there was a way to give money directly to devs and circumvent the problem entirely.

By: tab

tab — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:48:01 +0000

@ vinraith

i thought the piracy figures were generally taken from downloads of game copies from places like thepiratebay – there are sites that offer nothing but cracks, with a disclaimer saying that they’re only for people in the exact situation i described. of course pirates grab them too, unfortunately.

but if you buy a retail copy of the game, it seems like you wouldn’t be counted? excuse my ignorance of their method for determining piracy rates.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:35:24 +0000

@tab

Because then you’re financially supporting the DRM AND increasing the piracy figures?

By: tab

tab — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:33:41 +0000

why not just take the third route? buy the game, then crack it? there are cracks freely available, and if i already paid for it i feel zero guilt about bypassing this crap.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:01:37 +0000

I wrote UBI what I think about their rigid DRM system and guess what – did they react? No way. They didn´t. The consequence will be, that I won´t buy any title from UBI anymore because I don´t want to be punished for being a customer.

I only hope a lot other former customers will do the same – and UBI will step back on their “Stay-always-online-because-we-want-to-know-DRM” system.

By: uncle sam

uncle sam — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:10:43 +0000

lol at paying for software

By: uks

uks — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:40:34 +0000

Re: Blizzard’s ‘recruit-a-friend’ program … yes, it’s a good idea (and I can vouch for it by experience). For single player off-line games, however, an off-line method would work better, similar to what ButtonWare did back in the day.

Frankly, I’m astounded that virtually everyone in the commercial software business holds onto the us-vs-them attitude as fiercely as they do. Or maybe we only really hear about The Stoopid(tm) rather than the smart ones.

By: MM

MM — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:00:38 +0000

In order to steal something, you have to actually remove something.
If someone had no money left over to spend on the game, what difference does it make if he has it or not?
He had nothing left to give; ergo he was never an eligible customer.
In turn, he can’t be a thief, since only a customer that was a POTENTIAL customer to begin with(i.e. someone with funds) can be lost.
Nothing that actually costs the developer or programmers etc involved any money happens when someone without an income pirates a game.

I always find it odd this is constantly implied by all these “pirate haters”. It’s just a plain case of economy and reality check.
Money that does not exist, cannot be spent.

I know that precious few people understand this concept, which is why we have record household debts both in the private and public sector worldwide and had a financial crisis to top it off, but it IS true.

Someone without cash can’t steal any revenue from you, period.

(Not implying this is the case for 100% of the pirated copies, but I AM saying explicity that the other way around will never work, i.e. that everyone who pirates digital items can actually be considered stealing anything at all – since they don’t have the MEANS to, even if they commit the act as an act..they are unable to cause damage, simply by logic and what is reality).