UBI DRM, will you buy the games POLL!

[Karsten]

So UBI's DRM is about to be part of all their future games. So here is the question will you buy the games?

 

[crownjules]

Needs an option about buying the game only when the price has dropped. Also, people buy games with DRM who are not just Ubisoft fans.

 

[Maximilian]

All ubisofts games are crap anyways, no interest at all, even before this whole DRM thing.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

So UBI's DRM is about to be part of all their future games. So here is the question will you buy the games?

poll is flawed. I am a fan of games, but not UBI. I will still buy games with or without DRM, regardless of who produces them.

 

[wanderer27]

I was looking at getting Settlers 7, but forget this nonsense.

 

[Phobic9]

I'm buying them... but not on the PC.

So according to this poll, I'm not buying them but I will buy them. I will not, however, pay money for more restrictions. That makes no sense to me at all. I can pop in Assassin's Creed II on the 360 and never connect the damn thing to the internet. Why Ubisoft thinks their idea is great on the PC, I'll never know.

 

[GaryJohnson]

poll is flawed. I am a fan of games, but not UBI. I will still buy games with or without DRM, regardless of who produces them.

+ 1 on this. And do we really need another thread about this?

Also, where's the: "I'm going to bitch about the DRM on forums every day until I've recieved enough postivie reinforcement from other forumers to make me feel that it's ok to pirate their games." option?

 

[JujuFish]

I was probably going to buy AC2, but not anymore.

 

[aigomorla]

I was looking at getting Settlers 7, but forget this nonsense.

same..

I was interested in settlers 7.

I loved settlers 6.

But UBI softs gay DRM is messing things up.
Lets see what comes first tho, they pulling out of the PC market and going straight console, or they dropping the gay DRM servers.

 

[TheJTrain]

Never heard of the Settlers series. Got Assassin's Creed 2 on 360. Was looking forward to Splinter Cell Conviction on PC but won't buy it if it includes this DRM.

 

[KaOTiK]

I want Silent Hunters 5 so bad, but wont touch it with this DRM

 

[mmntech]

Nope. Was going to buy AC2 though but not anymore. Not even for console. This is a colossal dick move on Ubi's part. Ubi and I were never on the best terms to begin with anyway. Since I got burned by LO:MAC and Blazing Angels. I fail to see how this new DRM scheme is going to actually stop piracy. We all know how unstable internet connections can be. All this will do is piss more legitimate gamers off, and probably drive more to pirated versions.

 

[Jumpem]

I will likely still buy Settlers 7. Not thrilled about it, but I've been looking forward to the game.

 

[Gothgar]

maybe...

will it still have this DRM if bought on Steam?

 

[BassBomb]

Don't buy too many games

 

[ZzZGuy]

My backlog (bought and meaning to buy) is far to long to trouble my self with games with this type of DRM.

 

[Locut0s]

Link to the issue? What's special about this new DRM?

 

[wanderer27]

Link to the issue? What's special about this new DRM?

Here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2045315


and here's a follow up:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2051566

 

[Locut0s]

Here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2045315


and here's a follow up:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2051566

WTF, loosing your connection even for a small amount of time boots you from the game!? I can stand game activation and the rest but that is insane!

 

[TBSN]

It is a shame that they are doing this.

I was looking forward to Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell. But how will I know if the authentication servers will still be up in three or four years?

No, I will not buy these games. Cracked copies for me, please.

 

[CKent]

Depends on the specific title more than the Ubi name, but as a whole I'm not a fan of them as a company nor most of their games. Voted wouldn't anyway. If there was a title I was dying to play... dunno, it would depend how interested I was, maybe. It would definitely influence my decision.

 

[SniperWulf]

You know, the only way us PC gamers are going to send these nut jobs a message is by not only not buying the game, but also by not pirating the game.

Don't give them any reason to point to some arbitrary number and say "see, we told you PC gamers are thieves. 32323643097534 people downloaded it on bit-torrent".

 

[Rebel44]

I want Silent Hunters 5 so bad, but wont touch it with this DRM

This (I will buy it from Steam if their version dont have this stupid DRM).

 

[JoshGuru7]

There aren't any Ubisoft games I'm interested in since I picked up Assassin's Creed 2 for the PS3 (great game). Should this change, the DRM scheme they are using will mean I'm probably willing to pay around $5 less then I would if it had no DRM at all and about the same if it had a disc-check.

 

[pmv]

+ 1 on this. And do we really need another thread about this?

Also, where's the: "I'm going to bitch about the DRM on forums every day until I've recieved enough postivie reinforcement from other forumers to make me feel that it's ok to pirate their games." option?

Why do DRM-fans always peddle this lie, that people annoyed with DRM are pirates? Is it because they don't have any honest argument to make? Its quite offensive really.

Intrusive DRM is anti-consumer, it gets in the way, and, for me, it dissuades me from buying games at all. No, I don't pirate, I'm not 12 years old and I can't be arsed with torrents and that faffing about, I just find something else to do that isn't PC gaming-related (and I don't mean consoles, I mean, books or real life or something - though how long before books start coming mostly electronic form with crappy DRM added?).

But DRM is part of the attempt by software producers to use new technology to gain unprecented levels of control for themselves at the expense of the consumer. I simply don't understand why some consumers are so enthusiastic about defending something that hurts their own self-interest and represents a major change in the way 'software' (in its broadest definition, so including books, movies and music) is consumed - unless they actually own substantial shares in software companies of course, which I suspect they don't or they'd have better things to do that post on these threads.