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Ubisoft's Draconian DRM Patched?

Posted by Soulskill on from the improved-to-terrible dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Ubisoft's controversial DRM scheme launched last year that required players to have a permanent connection to the Internet has been patched to no longer stop the game when connectivity drops, though an Internet connection is still required when starting the game."

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  1. Reminds me of a UserFriendly comic by Killer+Eye · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Reminds me of a UserFriendly.org comic from a few years ago...went something like this:

    "Someone is force-feeding you 5 bricks while kneeing you in the crotch. Suddenly, they decide to feed you only FOUR bricks. Do you THANK them?!?"

    --
    "Microsoft killed my company, I hold a personal grudge. I don't use Microsoft products and neither should you."-JWZ
  2. Re:Just buy a console already by nedlohs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's funny, they conclude with

    "Well as a publisher I’d have to ask myself why bother releasing a game for the PC at all? Why don’t I just give it away for free?"

    After stating a minute earlier that the PC version made nine and a half million euros in sales. Given it's on an xbox already, the art and level design is all done, etc, etc. Yes why not not take 9 million euros that's on the table, that'd be rational.