Assasins Creed 2 - don't buy it - if you bought it, return it

[Takeshi]

Holy mother... guess I won't be getting this until something is done about it. I played a bit Assassin's Creed and liked it though it wasn't fantastic. I thought about getting, or at least completing it so I would be ready for Assassin's Creed 2. I borrowed the game at the library, but it didn't catch my interest much.

I like Steam a lot. They should've just gone with installing, activating and playing it. It's been working so far for other publishers so why change it?

[Crimson13]

The reason they changed it is simple, it's not only to protect their own games, it's to license the technology to other developers, which they're in talks to do.  Essentially, they want to create a service, but in their attempts, they've fallen incredibly short of expectations.

I'm not one for pirating software, though I used to be.  I tend to purchase games and software that I find worthy, or I use open source.  I was so looking forward to playing my purchased copy of AC2, as I loved the first game so much.  Sadly, i've cancelled my order for the time being, paying a fee to do so too.

[Jarudin]

No change today, still can't play.

--Jarudin--

[Mikan]

After reading this, and them dropping the Wii for PS3/360 (because they think sales will be better) Ubisoft is digging themselves a grave, they're worse then Nexon now lol.

[fohfoh]

After reading this, and them dropping the Wii for PS3/360 (because they think sales will be better) Ubisoft is digging themselves a grave, they're worse then Nexon now lol.

Who's nexon? I don't understand the comparison?

Steam IMO isn't that bad. I sort of like it. True, you might get fucked over in the long run, but it's not a bad attempt at DRM done right. It still can't beat a good old fashioned Blizz game where we would buy one disc, burn a few copies and then play a few together and have other buddies trundle around in the other servers until we ridiculed them enough to buy their own copy. I mean, there was a huge enough issue that Blizz actually listened with the no CD methods. (ie: ISO via daemon tools) that Blizz implemented their own "No CD" patch and method for Diablo 2 LOD.

[summertime]

Urgh, having your save games stored on their servers and then losing them... Unforgivable.

Big thanks for the info and feedback, I may have found out about it when it was too late. Thank God I didn't buy it.

What if it turned like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTZTzsYoZs&feature=related (different game, same DRM protection; probably edited for non-experts )

[Mikan]

After reading this, and them dropping the Wii for PS3/360 (because they think sales will be better) Ubisoft is digging themselves a grave, they're worse then Nexon now lol.

Who's nexon? I don't understand the comparison?

Steam IMO isn't that bad. I sort of like it. True, you might get fucked over in the long run, but it's not a bad attempt at DRM done right. It still can't beat a good old fashioned Blizz game where we would buy one disc, burn a few copies and then play a few together and have other buddies trundle around in the other servers until we ridiculed them enough to buy their own copy. I mean, there was a huge enough issue that Blizz actually listened with the no CD methods. (ie: ISO via daemon tools) that Blizz implemented their own "No CD" patch and method for Diablo 2 LOD.

Nexon Corp is the Gaming company that pioneered micro-transactions in online gaming, even though they have a pretty solid company and such, they have a super hard time figuring out what services will benefit the players, rather then frustrate. Such as lately if you disconnected from the login server your character had a 30% chance of losing your items equipped. and it takes them atleast a month to give you the things back in basic colors. 99.5% of the time they fail update's (3hr update/downtime turns into 18 hours) and customer support is almost non-exsistant >>
Basically lol its fail >>

[Pzc]

There's a amusing three part series on youtube
made by peeps who aren't thrilled about this new
DRM. It's about Silent Hunter 5 though, not AC2.

Das DRM Part 1
Das DRM Part 2
Das DRM Part 3

[fohfoh]

After reading this, and them dropping the Wii for PS3/360 (because they think sales will be better) Ubisoft is digging themselves a grave, they're worse then Nexon now lol.

Who's nexon? I don't understand the comparison?

Steam IMO isn't that bad. I sort of like it. True, you might get fucked over in the long run, but it's not a bad attempt at DRM done right. It still can't beat a good old fashioned Blizz game where we would buy one disc, burn a few copies and then play a few together and have other buddies trundle around in the other servers until we ridiculed them enough to buy their own copy. I mean, there was a huge enough issue that Blizz actually listened with the no CD methods. (ie: ISO via daemon tools) that Blizz implemented their own "No CD" patch and method for Diablo 2 LOD.

Nexon Corp is the Gaming company that pioneered micro-transactions in online gaming, even though they have a pretty solid company and such, they have a super hard time figuring out what services will benefit the players, rather then frustrate. Such as lately if you disconnected from the login server your character had a 30% chance of losing your items equipped. and it takes them atleast a month to give you the things back in basic colors. 99.5% of the time they fail update's (3hr update/downtime turns into 18 hours) and customer support is almost non-exsistant >>
Basically lol its fail >>

Totally did not find that in my GIYF frolick.

[southerndoom]

Yea all this kinda stuff this/steam etc has really turned me off to PC gaming.
I crossed the line from consoles to pcs a good 7 or 8 years ago.Now i see
how fucked up the pc market as become im slowly switching back over to
playing consoles again.I picked up a 360 about 6 months ago.If its on Xbox
i wont buy the pc version.So basically MMOs and probably RTSs will be the only
thing i play pc wise.I really really dislike companies telling me how i have to play
a game that i bought.

[samfisher1]

yep. cos people wont buy good games, good games need to be protected with drm.  but its stupid having to be online 24-7 for a single plr game

[mgz]

yep. cos people wont buy good games, good games need to be protected with drm.  but its stupid having to be online 24-7 for a single plr game

good games get purchased.
Shitty games with no replay value and very little depth get pirated massively like assassins creed 1 and 2

[samfisher1]

well your right with the good games get purchased.


thus, ALL GAMES SHOULD BE MADE GOOD, so they dont get pirated XD

[forsaken]

I'm not usually a gloater, but these DRM Server downtimes are in fact very positive. Way to make people aware of the pitfalls of DRM, Ubisoft!

[newy]

Jarudin, what DLCs are you going to get as compensation for the downtime >_> Poor offer, Ubishit.

[MammalSauce]

ahhahaha! ubishit! i get it!

[mgz]

well your right with the good games get purchased.


thus, ALL GAMES SHOULD BE MADE GOOD, so they dont get pirated XD

well even good games get pirated but the thing is when a game is good ALOT of people buy it regardless.

[MammalSauce]

well your right with the good games get purchased.


thus, ALL GAMES SHOULD BE MADE GOOD, so they dont get pirated XD

well even good games get pirated but the thing is when a game is good ALOT of people buy it regardless.

Good games sell? Who woulda thunk it?!

[wolkec]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TemSRI18dlM
take a look

[TorturdChaos]

I laugh so hard when I read the article on TechSpot about the always online DRM  BS.  It had fail written all over it.  Then week or so later their servers go down for something like 8hrs, and everyone is PISSED!!!!  I laughed so hard .   

Its like they are promoting pirating .