By Kieron Gillen on July 16th, 2010 at 6:18 pm.
What are you doing this weekend? Well, if you’re less busy than me, you can play Ruse, the forthcoming Ubisoft strategy game. It actually quite impressed me at a recent press event, so diving into this Machiavellian game of bluff is something that I’d quite like to spend the weekend doing. Alas! But maybe your life is more pleasurable – yet empty – than mine, in which case I direct you to Steam. Download the client and you can play until Sunday. A chunky 20-minute video where the team talk about the improvements for the free weekend follows if you want a bit of hot developer goss…
Well, being 1) Free 2) Onlne Multiplayer does mean that at least there’s no reason for the Ubisoft DRM-system to be a problem here.
Would buy this, but for UbiDRM. Yes, it’s meant to be multiplayer, but I like to play single player too, and if I cave on one UbiDRM title, then UBI can blame the lower sales on other titles on the devs/game itself, not their own asshattery. (Sorry Blue Byte, old chums. )
Yes, I played it on the last free weekend and enjoyed it.
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I know how that feels, I probably would’ve bought the new Settlers game, especially since Bruce Shelley was working with them. But I refuse to budge on this. A man’s got to have his principles. I didn’t cave with Modern Warfare 2 (which turned out to be shite anyway), I sure as hell won’t do now.
(Before the flames begin: I played through MW2 SP and had a couple of hours MP on a friend’s acc. So I know what I’m talking about.)
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Would they ever stop doing these free things on the weekends? I work on the weekends. Always have, and always will for as long as I live. I can never play these things =(
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No, thanks Ubi. Get rid of your pointless DRM system, and maybe then we’ll talk.
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blah blah blah boycott ubisoft blah blah blah
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It impressed me too. It really delivers on creating a fresh take on the genre, both in mechanics and graphics. Innovation + polish (love to detail). Too bad, It would be a foolish idea to buy any Ubisoft game now.
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I agree, there are some interesting idea. It’s not worth putting up with Ubisoft’s DRM though.
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same as what everybody above has said. Looks exactly like the type of game I’d happily buy, but I don’t want to encourage stupid DRM practises. And it’s not like I’m short of games with CiV, Elemental, etc coming out soon :)
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As I mentioned in the the when RUSE was talked about last week, I feel bad for the development team here. I really enjoyed the beta, which would make it the only multiplayer RTS I’ve ever enjoyed online. It’s a slick, clever, and well designed game. It deserves to do well on its own merits. But I won’t buy it because… well, you know.
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cannot do. had several mix gender orgies to attend this weekend. shame ….
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timewarp
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@spinoza:
I have read all your post in secuential order.
1) had several mix gender orgies
2) timewarp
It seems you are tryiing to pull a “How is it possible to become your own grandfather?” ruse.
In order to save you from inventing complicated time machines, heres a cheaper and easy to made solution:
After long years as a bachelor I was tired of being alone and married a widow with a grown daughter. My father fell in love with the daughter and took her as his wife. This made me my own son-in-law and my stepdaughter became my mother. After a year my wife gave birth to a son. Now, my son was my father’s brother-in-law and at the same time my uncle, since he was my stepmother’s brother. But my father’s wife also gave birth to a son. So this was my brother and also my grandson, since he was the son of my daughter. This meant I’d married my grandmother, since she was the mother of my mother. As my wife’s husband, I was also her grandson. And since the husband of a grandmother is always a grandfather, I am my own grandfather.
Mark Twain.
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The reports of his birth are greatly extrapolated.
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let’s do the timewarp again?
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Ubisoft’s Online Services Platform. Ubisoft requires a permanent Internet connection to play this video game at all times.
No sale, Hale!
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Oh crap, pre-downloaded it the other night when i was too stoned to notice that it was Ubicrap. I just saw FREE!
Now i feel dirty.
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First time I tried this last night, was massively impressed. I don’t really care about the drm thing if I’m honest, but will be buying ps3 move version anyway.
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Nice game, DRM, do not want, die in a fire UBI, etc.
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Sadly I have to agree. If this has UbiDRM, I will not play it.
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DRM bad. Game was ok… seemed a bit shallow? Also the whole “RUSE” card thing seemed like a gimmick.
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The beta was fun, but UBIDRM etc…
Also I’m too busy playing World of Tanks while also being in the middle of Mass Effect 2, Red Faction Guerilla, Psyconauts, Beyond Good and Evil, and I also want to get to TF2 for the Engy update AND I just got the first 5 seasons of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People for my birthday.
I don’t need another game at the moment, when the price is really nasty DRM.
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World of Tanks is my current addiction as well. I’ve let my City of Heroes subscription lapse again after two months since all my guildmates are in the Going Rogue beta, so having great fun in WoT. Yay for not long time commitment to have fun, as in most MMOs.
However, I’m getting to the point where my lack of skill has slowed me down. I need more kills/scouts/surviving/being on the winning team to progress more than a grand or so credits per game, after repair bills :P
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Anyone else loving Alexi’s engrish?
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I feel genuinely sorry for Eugen Systems, I played their beta and had loads of fun for the first time in an online RTS, playing with strangers.
But, alas, UbiDRM means no sale =(
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RPS did you stop boycotting reporting Ubisoft related stuff apart from yet another cracked game or servers down?
And yes like everyone else: Fuck off Ubifail.
Sack Yves and get rid of the Launcher!
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Was REALLY interested in this game when it first came out, until I read that Ubisoft was publishing it.
Ubisoft DRM == won’t play.
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Publisher: Ubisoft
Oh, nevermind.
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Just adding my sad, slow shake of the head, directed toward a certain three letter acronym.
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Hving a “register for Windows Live otherwise you can’t save your game progress” suddenly pop-up on my screen after getting a cheap copy of FUEL in the Steam sales, followed by the auto-pop-up IE link to GFWL failing to work – I am definitely of the “shove your always-on-DRM-can’t-save-games-connection-failed stuff up your @rse please ubisoft” view. I have a massive backlog of decent and non-problematic games waiting to be played so much so that I don’t need games like this in my life, thanks.
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I read some previews and R.U.S.E. seemed like my kind of g… oh, wait, published by Ubisoft, never mind.
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Onlne Multiplayer does mean that at least there’s no reason for the Ubisoft DRM-system to be a problem here
Really?. It is a problem for me, on principle. I’m not buying ANYTHING with that DRM.
Also, if it’s only online multi and no LAN, they can forget about my money, assuming they dropped the DRM and I was going to buy it.
Bad Ubi.
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I can happily report that as of this time on Monday morning, RUSE has failed to make it onto the top sellers list at any point this weekend in the UK.
Ubisoft liked to pin the last Prince of Persia’s failure on the lack of SecuROM they stuffed on it, rather than it’s awfulness. Maybe now they won’t blame RUSE’s gameplay but the friggin DRM.
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What if i have crappy satelite internet or none at all? Hey there loss right?
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