Gamer Blast

Assassin’s Creed 2 DRM Is Excessively Ridiculous

Posted by Connor On February - 20 - 2010

Digital Rights Management (herein DRM) has been taken to greater, more ridiculous heights as of late, and Ubisoft’s announcement about the DRM in place for Assassin’s Creed 2 just ups the ante.
DRM is put in place to deter piracy across many different types of media. Does it work? Of course not! If pirates want something for free, they will get it. Simple as that.
All DRM does is hurt the people paying for the media. That means that the pirates get better-quality, free-er media than the law-abiding citizens who go to the store and purchase it. This is already pretty screwed up, and has been since DRM was created, but, again, Ubisoft has brought it one step further.

In the upcoming release of Assassin’s Creed 2 for PC, you will have to remain connected to the Internet at all times while you play. No joke. If your connection cuts out, the game locks up on you, and you have two choices… Exit the game, forfeiting your process since the last checkpoint, or waiting patiently while your connection comes back up.

This means that if you’re a laptop gamer, and you’re away from your internet connection, you will not be able to play the game that you paid upwords of $40-50 for. Pirates, however, will undoubtedly have the game’s DRM cracked and removed within a week of the game’s release, if not sooner, and they’ll be playing pretty wherever and whenever they want while paying customers get treated like crap.

This is freaking ridiculous, Ubisoft. I’m a bit ashamed at this point to say that I’ve recently supported that dreadful company by purchasing Assassin’s Creed 2 for the Playstation 3. I regret that now, even as I have it paused while I type this article.

If anybody at Ubisoft finds this article, listen to me… You’re making a mistake! You’re going to lose the respect of many paying customers with your draconian DRM, while keeping all that get your game illegitimately on board, maybe deterred a couple of days in an attempt to crack your game. That’s it.
Fix it.
Now.