I subscribe to PCFormat. It's interesting because of all the hardware tests and weird little side projects that appear from time to time. Also, Ask Luis is really funny.
It's illegal in Singapore too - Traffic Matters -> Handphone Driving. Sadly this doesn't deter people from doing it anyway, I see at least 5 people doing it every day.
It's a stupid, stupid idea, and I wish people would have a bit more common sense.
Games with real world settings are just hot right now, that's all. It's not like nobody's been making games in fantasy settings recently either, look at dragon age, mass effect, zeno clash, god of war etc. TFA makes it sound like games not based in reality are super rare or something right now, which isn't true at all. Maybe the author was grasping at straws trying to make a deadline or something.
I disagree with this method of DRM, but I really want to play this game. Also, I don't pirate games as a matter of principle (though if I made a game and it was pirated widely, I'd take that as a compliment, it just means people liked it).
So what I'm going to do is borrow a friend's xbox and play his old copy. I get to play the game, I don't have to deal with the ham-fisted DRM, I don't pay a cent, and all without doing anything illegal.
Still, it makes me kind of sad that I don't get to play on my platform of choice. I don't like where this fight is going either, it seems like publishers are just intending to take piracy as an excuse to leave the PC market for the console market. I like my all in one work and entertainment machine, and the thought of having to purchase additional hardware just to play games is really annoying.
The worst part of all this is that they did it on a really popular game. Most people will just suck it up and buy the game with the inconvenient DRM because they just want to play the game, and then Ubisoft will claim high sales numbers as proof that the system "reduces piracy rates". This doesn't work because all it means is that more people are playing the game. Once the game is cracked, the ratio of pirated copies to legitimate copies will probably still look the same as for any other game. If this was done on a less popular title, that title's sales numbers would fall because the mentality would be "oh, I wanted to try that game, but the DRM is a pain in the ass so I guess I won't bother". And since the game didn't get a chance to prove itself before the inevitable cracking, less people would be looking to pirate it due to lack of general interest and word-of-mouth advertising, resulting in overall less copies in the wild, but a pretty much similar ratio of pirated copies to legitimate copies.
Of course, there's no way to tell if the above would actually be the case until the scenario actually happens, so let's wait and see.
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I subscribe to PCFormat. It's interesting because of all the hardware tests and weird little side projects that appear from time to time. Also, Ask Luis is really funny.
It's not a bug. Why was it posted to the bug tracker? They could have just Googled a little bit and found the suggestions page.
It's illegal in Singapore too - Traffic Matters -> Handphone Driving. Sadly this doesn't deter people from doing it anyway, I see at least 5 people doing it every day.
It's a stupid, stupid idea, and I wish people would have a bit more common sense.
Games with real world settings are just hot right now, that's all. It's not like nobody's been making games in fantasy settings recently either, look at dragon age, mass effect, zeno clash, god of war etc. TFA makes it sound like games not based in reality are super rare or something right now, which isn't true at all. Maybe the author was grasping at straws trying to make a deadline or something.
Well, progressive crippleware, at least.
What's next, cracks for game demos?
I disagree with this method of DRM, but I really want to play this game. Also, I don't pirate games as a matter of principle (though if I made a game and it was pirated widely, I'd take that as a compliment, it just means people liked it).
So what I'm going to do is borrow a friend's xbox and play his old copy. I get to play the game, I don't have to deal with the ham-fisted DRM, I don't pay a cent, and all without doing anything illegal.
Still, it makes me kind of sad that I don't get to play on my platform of choice. I don't like where this fight is going either, it seems like publishers are just intending to take piracy as an excuse to leave the PC market for the console market. I like my all in one work and entertainment machine, and the thought of having to purchase additional hardware just to play games is really annoying.
The worst part of all this is that they did it on a really popular game. Most people will just suck it up and buy the game with the inconvenient DRM because they just want to play the game, and then Ubisoft will claim high sales numbers as proof that the system "reduces piracy rates". This doesn't work because all it means is that more people are playing the game. Once the game is cracked, the ratio of pirated copies to legitimate copies will probably still look the same as for any other game. If this was done on a less popular title, that title's sales numbers would fall because the mentality would be "oh, I wanted to try that game, but the DRM is a pain in the ass so I guess I won't bother". And since the game didn't get a chance to prove itself before the inevitable cracking, less people would be looking to pirate it due to lack of general interest and word-of-mouth advertising, resulting in overall less copies in the wild, but a pretty much similar ratio of pirated copies to legitimate copies.
Of course, there's no way to tell if the above would actually be the case until the scenario actually happens, so let's wait and see.