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Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week
hypnosec writes "Several of Ubisoft's biggest titles won't be playable as of next week thanks to a server move by the publisher and the restrictive DRM that was used in their development. This isn't just multiplayer either. Because Ubisoft thought it would be a smart plan to use always on DRM for even the single player portion of games like Assassin's Creed, even the single player portion of that title won't be playable during the server move. Some of the other games affected by this move will be Tom Clancy's HAWX 2, Might & Magic: Heroes 6 and The Settlers 7. The Mac games that will be broken during this period are Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell Conviction and The Settlers. This move was announced this week as part of a community letter, with Ubisoft describing how the data servers for many of the publisher's online services would be migrated from third party facilities to a new location starting on the 7th February. The publisher didn't reveal how long the transfer would take."
This piracy thing must be a completely different experience for some people that others.
In the world I live in there are two very different categories of things: those that I have and those I do not. There is no in-between state where I have something but for some reason I still do not have completely.
So, if I have a pirated game then I have it. Period. I do not need to run out and purchase it for any reason. If it is a poor copy and partly unusable, then the pirating job was done poorly and there must be a better copy. Under no circumstances do I - or anyone I know - feel such overwhelming guilt that having a pirated game, music, book or movie I want to go out and pay for it. Such things are for the guilt-ridden who shouldn't be pirating stuff to begin with.