Ubisoft Working On a New Anti-Piracy Tool

Ubisoft recently revealed that their game sales have seen a 50% drop over the past quarter, blaming the overall market slowdown and piracy (particularly on the DS) for the low numbers. They also announced that four of their games, including Splinter Cell: Conviction and Red Steel 2, would be delayed until 2010. The company's CEO, Yves Guillemot, now says they are working on a new anti-piracy tool that should be ready by the end of 2009. He didn't offer any details about how it would be implemented.

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Re:The DS fails commercially at the most basic lev

[cliffski]

maybe because you understand that games arent delivered by faeries, but by people who work (fucking hard) for years to make them, and you gvi a damn about more games being made in future?
Ones that are not purely evony style micro-transaction hell-holes or online only WoW clones...

Of course that requires medium term thinking, or empathy.