Ubisoft's Constant Net Connection DRM Confirmed

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A few weeks ago we discussed news of Ubisoft's DRM plans for future games, which reportedly went so far as to require a constant net connection, terminating your game if you get disconnected for any reason. Well, it's here; upon playing review copies of the PC version of Assassin's Creed 2 and Settlers VII, PCGamer found the DRM just as annoying as you might expect. Quoting:

 

"If you get disconnected while playing, you're booted out of the game. All your progress since the last checkpoint or savegame is lost, and your only options are to quit to Windows or wait until you're reconnected. The game first starts the Ubisoft Game Launcher, which checks for updates. If you try to launch the game when you're not online, you hit an error message right away. So I tried a different test: start the game while online, play a little, then unplug my net cable. This is the same as what happens if your net connection drops momentarily, your router is rebooted, or the game loses its connection to Ubisoft's 'Master servers.' The game stopped, and I was dumped back to a menu screen — all my progress since it last autosaved was lost."

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http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/18/0719256/Ubisofts-Constant-Net-Connection-DRM-Confirmed

 

Publishers are slowly killing the PC games industry with crap like this. Why would anyone want to put up with jumping through all these hoops to play a game on the PC when its so much less hassle to play on a console?

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these blokes are seemingly settling over to console players more and more....suckers

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yeah have been following this on several site. the. ew ghost recon game is confirmed to be using it too!!

 

I bet the pirates will crack it in about 5 minutes though!