If anything leads me to buying the game and then pirating it, this would be it. Yes, I know. Vote with your dollars. Don't support DRM. I hear ya and that makes sense. But if you want to play the game, legally, and don't want to deal with the connectivity stuff...
 

Totally agree this is the most ridiculous DRM I've ever seen in my 25 years of PC gaming. Anger isn't even the word to describe it. I hope UBI goes down in flames and goes down fast.

I'd like to know what's going to happen when someone without an net connect (probably a rarity I know) is going to do when they buy these games and cannot play because most retail store will not accept returns on software.
 

"I'd like to know what's going to happen when someone without an net connect (probably a rarity I know)"

In some industrialized countries like Germany there are many rural areas where you don't have ADSL and flatrates.
Playing a game like that could easily cost you an additional Euro per hour (provided, the game will work with a measly 56 kbit connection)...

"is going to do when they buy these games and cannot play because most retail store will not accept returns on software."

They'll try to return it anyway as they'll claim that they couldn't read the smallprint on the back of the package that they need a constant internet connection.

Even if they succeed with that they'll buy less in the future.

Bravo Ubisoft!
 

Also:

http://s10b.directupload.net/images/100131/v5xhqrkj.jpg

;-)
 

BWAHAHAH!

Like I said - Ubisoft is shooting themselves in the foot. Maybe they are right, and maybe 99% of their customers won't care, and they'll actually increase sales due to much more challenging piracy.

But I really hope to see this little experiment crash and burn badly on them.
 

Just a little over a year ago I bought Prince of Persia, a game I was lukewarm on getting, just because Ubisoft was releasing it DRM free as a test. Now they are going to a DRM just as bad as Securom's limited installations, if not worse.

I had thought that the tide was starting to turn again, with EA backing down on their DRM and releasing Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age with CD checks only.

And of course, it will be cracked so once again only legitimate customers will be penalized. I've said it before, but it bears repeating - The pirates already have you beat on price, when they beat you on usability too then you have lost the war. I saw a recent image referencing movies that illustrate this point - http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg
 

I hate to think of people buying this game later than launch day. The later you buy it the sooner they shut off the servers, the sooner you can't play your own goddamn game.
 

There are a few games I skipped because of the DRM, or switched to playing on a console.

In the end though, even the ones that I switched to a console were bought 2nd hand so the developers still didn't get my money.

When I say skipped, I mean skipped. I don't endorse the "I steal only because I don't want to pay them for it" line. It made me sad at first, and then as the hype fades and people talk about new games, I realize that I'm not really missing anything by not playing those games.

The old ones that were sold to me without these hidden schemes, where the DRM now is whether or not I can configure the system to be backwards compatible enough for them to play? Those ones I play with and treasure. The newer games (and this includes some that I bought with what I considered to be acceptable DRM), they may not reach that status. And their failures are only going to discourage further purchases.

Indie gaming really is going to be the future for me. I loved Armgeddon Empires. Also Dwarf Fortress. Bought one, donating to the other. Behold the future, developers, and beware.