Ubisoft DRM Problems Remain Unsolved

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 18, 2010 @04:28AM from the think-of-is-as-encouraging-you-to-find-a-new-hobby dept.

ocean_soul writes "More than three weeks after the release of The Settlers 7, with the controversial 'always on-line' DRM, a lot of people still can't connect to Ubisoft's DRM servers. The forum threads where people can post if they are unable to connect keep growing daily. One reason for the lack of fixes or responses from support seems to be that the people responsible were on vacation during the Easter holiday, despite the promise of 24/7 monitoring of the servers. The moral of this story seems to be that it is a bad idea to buy a game just before a major holiday." Or perhaps that it's wise to avoid games with such DRM altogether. So far, Ubisoft hasn't shown any sign that they're reconsidering the requirement of a constant connection. They've recently said it's "vital" to the success of their games and promised that their DRM would "evolve and improve" over time.

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Re:They don't care about the problems today. by Eli+Gottlieb · 2010-04-18 10:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If everyone stopped buying, playing, and pirating DRM-infested titles for 1 month the industry would shit itself. We sold 0 titles? Oh then they must be downloading. No downloads? No activity on the servers at all? W-T-F? Let's get a new title out there with full-on advertising. No one bought it? W-T-F? OK, maybe let's look at this DRM thing.
And if everyone stopped buying fast food, stopped watching movies, and went on strike for better labor conditions we could have the capitalist pigs trembling in their boots!
Pull the other one, it's got bells on.