Ubisoft's DRM for Assassin's Creed II is Cracked

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[citation][nom]csimmo[/nom]I bought, played and finished this game with no issues at all. I think alot of people are assuming a bit to much.[/citation]
"You need a stable internet connection while playing, or prepare to get booted" somehow is not "intrusive"?
 
[citation][nom]nukem950[/nom]An article I am interested in is how many CONSOLE games are pirated or is it impossible to tell?[/citation]
All Xbox 360 games are easily, uhm, backed up.
 
[citation][nom]Kelavarus[/nom]If what I 'spewed' was shit, then you're merely vying to best me at 'shit-spewing'. I'm not talking about profit or anything. Ubi tracked the Assassin's Creed 1 (which had no DRM) sales vs Torrents, and will for Assassin's Creed 2 as well. Considering the outrage over DRM, do you really think that sales will best downloads?[/citation]
Why should it best downloads? Because some clueless greedy management monkeys believe, that many of the downloaders would have bought the game? Let me surprise you, hardly more than a couple of % would.
 
[citation][nom]Kelavarus[/nom]The point is, Ubi already TRIED using no DRM, and still got screwed over. Now they tried hard DRM, and are going to get screwed over again by the PC market. Please, tell me, where is their incentive to develop for PCs after that?[/citation]
Oh, so console market doesn't have this "oooh, they've DOWNLOADED my game, I'm probably loosing billions of billions of bucks, whoaaaaaa" thingy? Let me tell you this, try to search for:

assassin's creed 2 xbox 360 torrent

Surprise, surprise. And please STOP PRETENDING THAT "DOWNLOADERS" WOULD BUY THE GAME!!!
 
I for one have had no problem with assassins creed 2's DRM , infact I love the feature where I can play on my desktop and then when I am traveling my game saves are synced online and I can play on my laptop. I hope this doesn't mean that ubisoft will stop making PC games.(like epic games did with gears of war 2)
And I know people who are claiming not buying this on grounds of principle are just stupid. I mean these days who the heck uses a computer without an internet connection , everywhere you go there is a wifi network near by. As for third world countries , most dont but legit copies anyway (I know I have lived in one)
 
It's 'funny' to see that people can be soooo stubborn.
Hackers can crack anything that is MAN-made. What someone can build, another person can tear down. Why invest so much money into something that is air? Why think up of DRM schemes that prevent enjoying the game?
Why not use the money invested to tackle the REAL problem?

The real problem is that many people think, hey It's expensive, so I steal. Why not use some money to educate people?
Some parents seem unable to do so, because they give the right example of stealing, lying, etc
Without knowing when they were young they influenced others to steal, and perhaps lie, and it's getting more bad as out youngest generation is growing in an enviroment where stealing is done by many, drinking yourself to death is cool (utterly brainless if you ask me), some young people died because of this.....

If the older generation cannot give a good example to the younger, and educate, discipline their children . . . we will have bigger problems than now....and companies should assist as well, because with your consumers gone, there will be no chance to earn money.
Making a even bad DRM makes things even more grim....
 
[citation][nom]kartu[/nom]Oh, so console market doesn't have this "oooh, they've DOWNLOADED my game, I'm probably loosing billions of billions of bucks, whoaaaaaa" thingy? Let me tell you this, try to search for:assassin's creed 2 xbox 360 torrentSurprise, surprise. And please STOP PRETENDING THAT "DOWNLOADERS" WOULD BUY THE GAME!!![/citation]

I never said they would buy the download. That's not the point. The point is that the game IS being downloaded, and that's what they're looking at. Also, if it WASN'T cracked, and someone wanted to try the game, what do you think they would do? Either go without (no downloads) or buy the game. Yes, there will be some that play it at a friends house or somesuch, but still, there won't be downloads.

I am not saying anything about whether downloaders would have bought the game. And yes, I know about the Xbox torrent, but still, it's selling well, as did the last Assassin's Creed.

You know, the word piracy comes from illegal acts? That's the point of the term. We still call it pirating, showing that we recognize it's illegal. The bottom line is... It's illegal. Sure, don't buy the game, but don't steal it either.
 
That's great for people who bought this game. I'm still not going to buy it until the DRM is removed from the shipping product.
Don't worry Ubisoft, I won't be pirating it either.
 
[citation][nom]Kelavarus[/nom]I never said they would buy the download. That's not the point. The point is that the game IS being downloaded, and that's what they're looking at.[/citation]
The point is the game IS being downloaded MOSTLY by people who WOULD NEVER BUY it, even if it wasn't available for download.

[citation]And yes, I know about the Xbox torrent, but still, it's selling well, as did the last Assassin's Creed.[/citation]
So, xbox360 games are pirated like there is no tomorrow, yet games continue to sell well. Uhm, so what's wrong with PC sales? Hmm, I am absolutely sure that it's not DRM, who would mind DRM anyway? It's not like any site selling ACII is full of angry customers' comments. Right.

[citation]You know, the word piracy comes from illegal acts? That's the point of the term. We still call it pirating, showing that we recognize it's illegal. The bottom line is... It's illegal. Sure, don't buy the game, but don't steal it either.[/citation]
Piracy is not stealing as nobody is losing anything when game is "pirated" by non-potential-customer. So just learn to live with it.
 
[citation][nom]welshmousepk[/nom]if the original game wasn't such an insult to paying customers, you might be right. restricting people from playing a game they have paid for should be illegal, and in this instance i think the crackers are the good guys and Ubisoft are the bad guys.[/citation]
Agreed.
After I heard of the DRM scheme they pulled, I decided I wouldn't even try AC2.
 
To say "this DRM has been cracked" is entirely different than saying the DRM has been removed via a crack.

No, the DRM did NOT get cracked... It was just disabled with some witty hex editing. The implications of one is nothing like the other.
 
I also did not buy it because of the DRM, but it also does not give me the right to play cracked version. They will learn eventually, but if we continue to download pirated games then PC gaming will slowly go down hill even more and Publishers will result to consoles and no PC versions. Please DO NOT pirate the game. NO matter what the circumstances are. We need to show them that we will not buy the game nor Pirate the game.
I know they deserve it, but we need to save PC gaming! I hate consoles!
"I don't hate'em, I just love my custom built Monster of a PC"
 
i love all the attention given to AC II , when C&C 4 also has a similar type of DRM, although, EA says you only have to authenticate once, when logging in, I've been playing, lost my collection and been unable to keep my rank ups.
 
hackers should be stoned to death!! get a job losers!!!! all you do by pirating,,, is drive the price of games up for those of us that work or are not to cheap to buy it... thanks allot douchebags!!!
 
Ironically, the DRM is the reason I stayed away from buying Assassin's Creed 2. Otherwise, I probably would've bought it. Now I think I'll skip it entirely, unless I see it really cheap someday, or if they release a GOTY edition with DLC included (I f'ing hate DLC nickel-and-diming too).
 
I find it ironic that the gaming, music, and movie industries are trying to stop piracy by using methods that end up glorifying hackers and crackers...

Now, all these hackers that crack oppressive DRM are considered heroes in the gaming community!

DRM Epic Fail.
 
I won't pay for a game that forces me to be online. My connection is not good enough for such "security measures". I will buy other games, and if there will be no games left without that stupid DRM, I'll have to play old games, open sopuce games or stop playing. But I'm never going to buy such DRM-crippled stuff.
 
I don't want to burst the bubble, but this game was cracked a week before it was even released on the torrent sites back in February.
 
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