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New Ubisoft DRM (not AC2)

#1



Rubicon

Since AC2 was cracked early before release even with the new DRM, a dev posted on the Ubisoft forums the following new DRM scheme for upcoming games;

Ubisoft said:
You purchase a $60 subscription and receive an anonymous phone call within the next 24 hours with GPS coordinates. You meet at the coordinates and are blindfolded and put in a van with other players.

You are then transported to an unknown location and forced to strip, then you will be forced to walk through a metal detector and frisked. Anyone looking shady may be subject to a full body cavity search.

After being forced to shower in the presence of a rather burly security guard, you will be moved into a plain white room (still naked) and directed to a chair, which you will be bound to with shackles and a belt.

The game will begin, all under the supervision of no less than 4 security officers armed with next-generation military equipment per single player.

After a certain amount of time, the process will be reversed and you will be dropped off at the coordinates where you began this journey.
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#2

Dave

Dave

A DEV posted this? Good lord I hope he's anonymous, otherwise he could get the boot.

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Unless he was being funny and not critical of the DRM. In which case I love it.


#3

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

That's pretty effin' funny.

I could see a hilarious blogpost from a game journalist "testing" their new DRM. :p


#4

bhamv3

bhamv3

It's only a matter of time before something like this becomes reality.

Not that it'll actually stop piracy, of course. They just want to see naked people.


#5



Soliloquy

You know, in a way, I'm kind of glad this never-ending DRM/Hacker faceoff is going on. It means that bored anarchist hackers spend all their time messing with games instead of doing something that might actually do some damage.


#6

AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Oddly enough, that new DRM they developed that requires internet connections during your entire play experience? Already broken. You can get DRM free versions of the game if you want to pirate it. They've also had their new sub game released on the torrent networks before release. They are claiming it's not a complete version of the game, but then again, they'd claim that anyway just to get people to buy the retail.


#7

@Li3n

@Li3n

AshburnerX said:
Oddly enough, that new DRM they developed that requires internet connections during your entire play experience? Already broken.
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It's not odd when 90% of the time that's exactly how it goes...


And the fact that the game was available before it was released should be making them look for leaks instead of wasting money on new DRM...


#8



Chibibar

bhamv3 said:
It's only a matter of time before something like this becomes reality.

Not that it'll actually stop piracy, of course. They just want to see naked people.
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heh. With a lot of new gamers from all walks of life why not. There are even HOT gamers.


#9

Jay

Jay

The only functional DRM is play to play MMORPGs.


#10



Chibibar

SeriousJay said:
The only functional DRM is play to play MMORPGs.
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or alternatively, you can have free games with Cash shops (which need to verify via account online)


#11

@Li3n

@Li3n

SeriousJay said:
The only functional DRM is play to play MMORPGs.
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I know plenty of people that started out playing MMORPGs on illegal servers, so not really... constant content updates are the more effective DRM.


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