Will Not Buy PC Version of Assassin’s Creed
Posted by Darth Mole on Jul 27, 2011 in Lounge, Prison Ward | 3 comments
After reading the fact that Spooner has the PC versions of AC, AC2 and AC Brotherhood I got to thinking it may be something to look into as I haven’t unpacked my 360 since I moved. I do have a sweet Alienware M11x though so it seemed to be a good solution.
I, however, went to Amazon.com today and came across a very scary fact about Ubisoft’s PC ports for the Assassin Creed games; the DRM.
Now, while I think DRM is a nuisance to the general public I respect that companies need to protect their investments. There is just some DRM that is so ridiculous it borderlines on thieving. The type of DRM that Ubisoft chose for its AC PC ports unfortunately happens to be one of those types.
To even play the campaign mode, you need a constant connection to the internet. Why? Because when you start the game it connects to Ubisoft servers in order to authenticate the game and allow you to play the campaign mode. I’m sorry, anything that installs itself on my machine or requires me to have a connection to the internet so it can authenticate me every time I just want to play the offline campaign mode is boycotted by me.
I refused to buy Modern Warfare 2 because of Activision’s nickel and dime decision to not allow dedicated servers for multi-player game play and compared to Ubisoft’s decision that wasn’t so bad (though equally as evil).
ouch .. that’s pretty painful, i honestly had no idea
sometimes wonder if gaming should go back to the 80′s
i remember playing a game called zool – in order to even get in, i had to follow instructions on the screen and turn this little cardboard wheel around that had lots of other little wheels on it. and when they were aligned correctly, in accordance with the instructions, they gave a series of symbols that became the pw needed to get into the game >.>
another game had solid cards with little squares cut out (i think it might have been loom?), you aligned the card the game told you to use with the game manual, and typed in the word that showed through the hole.
another game, zak mckracken and the alien mindbenders, had a newspaper that you had to pick a word from if i recall correctly. fun newspaper on its own though!
only drawback to all these was that if you lost the key, you were screwed out of that game. but at least you could play those offline!
I suddenly don’t feel old anymore as I have no clue what you are talking about lol – thank you Tubrey! ;p
You know before playing the game when it was big news that Ubisoft’s DRM was a pain in the ass I was crusading with you.
After buying the game (I had forgotten all about it) and playing, it’s not that big a deal. I never once had a problem and honestly my PC is never NOT connected to the internet. I’m pretty sure people’s 360 is not disconnected and PS3 as well.
Its shady and morally it is an intrusive and an annoying pain in the ass yes. IN PRACTICE however, I didn’t and have yet to experience a single issue with it I really haven’t. I want to chalk this up to “a bunch of people had real problems with it a while back, the problems were fixed and access restored. players as is OUR nature got really fucking butthurt over it and are doing the extremist thing and reacting like they just nailed our god to a wooden post” because after emotions cool down, that’s exactly what it looks like.
I’m in now way at ALL supportive of DRM I fucking hate it. DLC too by the way but that’s another discussion. But if the DRM doesn’t do shit to hinder my experience (like that of Blizzard games or THQ’s or Arenanet’s, Bioware and so forth) then I don’t have a problem with it.