Well well well . .
Rumors have it that it was cracked in less than 24 hours in silent hunter.

Not exactly rumor

http://www.nfohump.com/index.php?switchto=...o&id=143849

Alright, and given that AC2 has the same DRM on it, it should also be cracked in under 24 hours. Aren't all those people that are paying to use the super annoying DRM system so glad to know that their pain is buying them almost an entire day of extra play time over pirates?

i cant help wonder if these systems are an attempt to get the piracy rate so high that they can point to that as a reason for pulling out of the pc games market and go console only.

heck, the more i read tech news these days, the more i see the net becoming canned goods, data accessed and rights verified online through some kind of closed up box (home, bag or pocket sized) running canned software (basically a specialized browser, but dont tell the users).

as an example, observer xbla, ps3 store or iphone app store. Latest is that windows phone (formerly mobile) 7 will have a xbla of its own, and one can already use the p3 to get games for the psp.

i cant help expect that apple will at some point stop selling macbooks and such to anyone not having a company shipping address or something, and that microsoft will produce a office pack for the xbox...

First companies allready used piracy as a reason to go from PC to console only.
Because saying people are too dumb to play elaborate computer games anymore and demand easy to win console games would cost them customers.

I personally don't care that most things are going to a digital only deployment model as it tends to lower the cost of games as a whole (it is cheaper for the companies as they don' t have to pay shipping and handling (plus associated salaries)). As long as I can access my games in the future (well until I no longer want to play them anyway) I don't care that I don't have the physical disc in front of me. I imagine that in the future most multimedia entertainment will be in a digital only delivery model (music is almost there, and games are quickly following suite, even movies are now available through digital only formats).

AAAAANNND UBIsoft's servers are down!

Whoops!

For added irony AC2 is already cracked. So the pirates are playing their game, while the legit users are making use of their coasters.

Funny thing is, if Ubi had used a more conventional copy protection system it might even have lasted longer. Wth their SOOOOOPA new shiny DRM system Ubi really threw down the gauntlet to just about every release group.

*nods*
i knew it

There we have it, release day, perhaps day after to crack their 'super impressive' new DRM that they seemed to think would keep pirates at bay for months. And people who actually bought the game can't play. I wouldn't be surprised if pirates did a DOS attack on the UBIsoft server just to stress the point that they can play the game for free while paying customers can't.

I wonder if UBIsoft will stick with their DRM since it has caused such problems. While usually a restrictive DRM isn't going to matter to Joe Average, when Joe Average can't play their new game because of it, Joe Average is going to quickly turn away from buying another UBIsoft game. I'd imagine that this will actually cost them significantly in purchases for AC2 and future customers.

I do find it funny that one person mentioned a lawsuit if UBIsoft didn't get their server up quick. I'm sure the ToS agreement mentions that UBIsoft isn't responsible for keeping up the DRM's server or anything.

Hadn't exactly been a particular UBIsoft fan in the past, but I'll be avoiding their products like the plague now. All the nerd rage makes for some funny reading though, like them thinking that the DRM's developer is actually going to respond on the forms or will feel threatened by a lawsuit mentioned on the forums.

apparently, not the full game is provided out of the box. Parts of it is downloaded piece-meal from the server as the players progress.

in other words, its recreating shareware, only without the first part being free...

Download Cracked version: Free, save games offline: Free, play while nobody who bought it can: PRICELESS!

There are some games that you can actually play when you buy them, for everything else, there's UBIsoft.

It's true, this is exactly the kind of thing that would make someone who doesn't know much about computers still not want to buy UbiSoft products.

But I imagine the UbiSoft people *must* be sweating in their boardrooms over this. Of all the things they could have done, not being able to play the game at launch will surely offend Joe Stupid Consumer the most.

LOL, edit:

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4.../1801034838/p/1

*hits Ronin*
bad ronin, no showing such baleful writing <.<

well i think a good hint about the reason for the quality is in the nick of the writer, narutomaster98.

Wow, I'm surprised at how many posts there are saying that they really like the DRM and don't want it to go away. I especially love how people are concerned that pirates will somehow ruin their game. I mean, really, someone else is going to ruin your single player game? How are pirates going to manage that?

By far the most coherent posts on that thread are the ones that are along the lines of "The DRM is hurting customers by not letting them play the game that they bought, and that is going too far in attempting to counter pirates."

So many children posting about a game rated M. Oh well, what are you going to do?

Blame the pirates when the children go on a killing spree using ice-poking thingies.

I'd like to sue you for the value of my faith in humanity. Where must I file charges?

With the person in charge of the Internet.

You mean Al Gore.

Joe Stupid Consumer has already bought and played Assassin's Creed II a long time ago. Joe Stupid Consumer most likely has a PS3 or XBox 360 because that's the cool and trendy way to play games.