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Ubisoft’s idiotic DRM strikes again!
If you were planning to buy Anno 2070, you should know that it is limited to only 3 activations and if you replace your, say, graphics card more than thrice, you can say goodbye to the game.
What exactly is Ubisoft’s thought process behind such a strategy for the PC market?
Yes, we know they have been talking about how piracy is rampant, and how almost “95% of the PC gamers would pirate it” anyway, and other nonsense. This to us, shows an utter lack of respect for the PC market, and while plenty of publishers are affected by piracy, they have shown us that there is a way to succeed and gain a lot of goodwill in the process.
Guru3D found out about Anno 2070′s DRM, Ubisoft’s response to that was… well, terrible.
They said:
“Sorry to disappoint you – the game is indeed restricted to 3 hardware changes and there simply is no way to bypass that. We also do not have 7 copies of the game for you.”
Source: GamingBolt
Ubisoft: I Am Alive cancelled on the PC; “so few people are paying for the PC games”, “there’s so much pirating”
I Am Alive will probably not be coming to PC, the game’s creative director Stanislas Mettra claims. The problem with releasing a PC edition is that piracy makes profitably uncertain.
Ubisoft is aware of the fact that PC gamers want the game too so here’s Mettra’s official statement regarding a PC release:
“We’ve heard loud and clear that PC gamers are bitching about there being no version for them,” said Mettra.
“But are these people just making noise just because there’s no version or because it’s a game they actually want to play? Would they buy it if we made it?”
Whether they would buy it or not, Mettra believes piracy makes porting games to the platform financially difficult.
“It’s hard because there’s so much piracy and so few people are paying for PC games that we have to precisely weigh it up against the cost of making it. Perhaps it will only take 12 guys three months to port the game to PC, it’s not a massive cost but it’s still a cost. If only 50,000 people buy the game then it’s not worth it.”
12 people really? Don’t even bother porting it then! Also did Ubisoft ever heard of Steam? 50,000 copies on Steam is nothing…
Source: INCGamers
AND THAT’S NOT ALL! UBI decided not to release Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on PC either. Ubi states that 95% of gamers would pirate it.
I think Ubisoft wants to back away from the PC, since they make only shitty brutal force console ports(From Dust?:p) and nothing else. And on top of it they add their DRM shit.
Almost everybody from the pc community(excluding fanboys) complains about that, so maybe they are just pissed at us. What you think? Are we going to miss them? xD
Ubiweek in Steam 23rd – 30th May
Looks like somebody doesn’t have enough money. Spend some more! :)
Presenting – Ubisoft week – every day one special deal, and all Ubisoft games 33% off (excluding IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs f Dover and Assassins Creed Brotherhood). Ubisoft is known as evil DRM distributor, so beware :) And also known with very bad geo-restricted pricings, be very careful and read the posts about the deals!
Sunday, 29th May – Tom Clancy everything –66%
Conclusion: awful prices for EU and UK, some even for AU & RU. But 2 offers have good price.
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell®
US: $3.39
UK: £1.69 (18% lower)
EU: 1,69€ (29% lower)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent®
US: $3.39
UK: £3.39 (65% higher)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®
US: $3.39
UK: £3.05 (48% higher)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction™
US: $6.79 (4,75€ / £4.12)
UK: £5.09 ($8.77 / 5,87€)
EU: 10,19€ (£8.83 / $14.53)
AU: $6.79 USD (0% higher)
RU: $6.79 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction™ Deluxe Edition
US: $8.49 (5,95€ / £5.15)
UK: £6.79 ($11.17 / 7,83€)
EU: 11,89€ ($16.96 / £10.30)
AU: $8.49 USD (0% higher)
RU: $8.49 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction Insurgency Pack
US: $3.39
UK: £1.69 (18% lower)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Complete Pack
US: $13.59
UK: £10.19 (24% higher)
EU: 11,89€ (25% higher)
AU: $13.59 USD (0% higher)
RU: $13.59 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s EndWar™
US: $6.79
UK: £5.09 (23% higher)
EU: 6,79€ (43% higher)
AU: $10.19 USD (50% higher)
RU: $10.19 USD (50% higher)
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X™
US: $6.79
UK: £5.09 (23% higher)
EU: 6,79€ (43% higher)
AU: $10.19 USD (50% higher)
RU: $10.19 USD (50% higher)
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.® 2
US: $16.99 (11,91€ / £10.32)
UK: £10.19 ($16.76 / 11,75€)
EU: 16,99€ ($24.23 / £14.72)
AU: $16.99
RU: $16.99
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.® 2 – Open Skies Expansion Pack
US: $3.39
UK: £2.37 (15% higher)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Vegas
US: $3.39
UK: £3.39 (65% higher)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Vegas 2
US: $3.39 (2.37€)
UK: £3.39 (65% higher)
EU: 5,09€ (114% higher) <- VERY AWFUL
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Lockdown™
US: $3.39
UK: £3.05 (48% higher)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® 3 Gold
US: $3.39
UK: £1.69 (18% lower)
EU: 1,69€ (29% lower)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Ubisoft sale on GetGames!
Some great deals on some Ubisoft titles. You can visit this page:
http://www.getgamesgo.com/catalogue/browse/SALE
Including:
- Anno 1404 for £7.99/14.99€,
- Call of Juarez 2: Bound in Blood for £4.99/7.99€,
- Assassin’s Creed for £9.99/14.99€,
- Settlers 5, 6 & 7 bundle for just £19.97/27.97€!
This week also sees the release of Sid Meier’s Civilization V. They are selling it at £26.99!
R.U.S.E. will not utilize Ubisoft PC DRM
Good news, the PC version of R.U.S.E. will not use Ubisoft’s 24/7 always online DRM, instead it will use Steamworks.
Aymeric Evennou, Ubisoft senior community developer, stated on the official R.U.S.E. forums: “When R.U.S.E. is released in September, it will benefit from Valve’s Steamworks API to offer the best community experience to players. Consequently, a Steam account and Internet connection will be required to activate the game, as per Steam policy. For this reason, R.U.S.E. will not use the Ubisoft protection. Single player can be played offline.”
Hopefully Ubisoft will patch all their old games to no longer use their DRM.
Rayman Origins to be released on the PC?
The remakes of classic 2D games are getting really popular these days, Ubisoft announced that they will release yet another Rayman game but this time it will be in 2D with Full HD. hand drawn graphics (thanks to Ubi Art Framework). They’ve said that the game will be available pretty soon on PlayStation Network and XBoX Live but at the moment Ubisoft is considering other platform release such as Nintendo Wii, 3DS, iPad and finally the PC.
This is a perfect title for Steam, Impulse and other digital platforms and Ubisoft should release it along with other platforms.
Here’s a great trailer of Rayman Origins in Full HD:
Speaking of classic 2D remakes, another great episode of Monkey Island is about to be released on Steam, when you pre-order right now you will get the first episode totally free (too bad the publisher didn’t let people who already own the first one to use it as Steam gift…).
E3 2010: New games from major publishers leaked?
Here’s an E3 2010 line up list. It was supposed to be confidential…
Click to enlarge.
Update: Here’s more thanks to Dragoon – http://abstract360.com/2010/05/rumor-e3-2010-line-up-leaked/
Update 2: Confirmed fake! http://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/13410527050
Uplay – it’s all about you!
Ubisoft is launching their new service called Uplay. I gotta say that the presentation on their website is stunning! What is Uplay? It’s just another service like Games For Windows Live or Steam Community.
Basically you have so called Uplay Win which has accomplishments (achievements), points and other unlockable stuff that is synchronized with your consoles (XboX 360 and PS3) and the PC!
Uplay Help has tutorials and walkthroughs created by the community or Ubisoft game developers.
Uplay Store has all the DLC and probably games like Assasin’s Creed 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction for now.
Uplay Share – friends and your own content like videos from the game or screenshots.
All services are available through the game you’re playing or Uplay.com! Could this crash XboX Live/Games For Windows Live or services like Steam Community or Xfire? More about Uplay here.
And now watch the presentation because it’s really cool:
Assassins Creed: Lineage
Tired of waiting Assassins Creed II? Here is a first episode of miniseries Assassins Creed: Lineage by Hybride Studios (movies 300, Sin City, SpyKids) for Ubisoft.
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: Midweek Madness Skyrim 33% off http://cdn.store.steampowered.com/message/1028181507618443955/
: fallout 3 goty just received a price drop to 20€; also fo:nv ultimate edition (includes all dlc and preorder bonuses) just released
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: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2521400
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: new indie gala bundle later this week at www.indiegala.com/
: money money money
: can anyone explain what's the friggin' deal with Age of Empires III, a 5 years old game being sold as new @40$/€ on almost every DD platform?
: Facebook is archiving the old Facebook group of ours, here's new one https://www.facebook.com/pages/SteamUnpoweredeu/260963810615450?v=wall
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: Checkout Crytek's GFACE, a new social platform for gaming http://www.gface.com/closed-beta
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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jnk8n3WrXU
: new humble bundle live
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWW92UhpZs&feature=player_embedded
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: http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/epic4chan/15893009078/1/tumblr_lxkmq8V94p1r9t8yb
: http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?tta
: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/oxzje/official_steam_app_for_android_and_ios/c3l34d2
: there's still hope, first ratification of ACTA in polish parliament and even if it passes european parliament has to vote on it then
: yep, another protest today in Warsaw, and next one during National Stadium opening on Sunday
: So PL actually did sign ACTA? :( Is it right that those guy said sth like "i'll not be extorted by those inhabitants"? o.O
: the next indie royale bundle is live (serious sam indie bundle)
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