Ubisoft's Internet DRM Servers Are Under Attack

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Ubisoft, you don't care about your customers. This became clear to me when you say you're pleased about your success against piracy. You should be ashamed the instant your anti-piracy makes it so even 1 legitimate customer isn't able to play the game. A game they payed for legally and then get punished for doing so by your DRM. How can you care about winning against piracy if you're losing against customer care/loyalty for those 5%? And that's just in this one instance, think of all the other potential customers lost reading about your lack of care for your legitimate customers. How many % does it take for you to be happy about your win against piracy but be sad about your lack of customer service? If you could eliminate all piracy but still continue to reliably serve only 10% or less of your customers would you do it? It's looking like that is the case. So go ahead and be happy about your temporary win against piracy, but I'll go ahead and be ashamed for you on your permanent loss against customer loyalty.
BTW I have no problems with DRM, products such as STEAM service have become a great boost to both DRM and customer use of those DRM legitimately.
 
got to wonder how much time they actually spent on making THE GAME GOOD...

"We're happy to say ACII & SH5 are withstanding the efforts to crack them. We see the rumors but still confirm no valid cracked versions exist"

who are you announcing this to? your shareholders? do you honestly expect the consumer to give a flying F$%#!

I mean really. its like a challenge! I'm tempted to try and crack it! hell I'm sure statements like that are enough to convince the one programmer you have there with a modicum of decency to defect and crack it for us!

you are the worst type of people Ubisoft. I will never buy a game from you again. I hardly have much spare time as it is, I'll buy games from a company that at least gives the impression that I'm not a mindless pleb theif!
 
Just sad that people are trying to validate their reasons for being thieves by attempting to make DRM look bad so they can feel like less than the douchebags they are. I hate the stupid DRM crap, but it wouldn't be needed if piracy wasn't so insane right now, so I blame the pirates who never buy the games they play. At least I have a small box of games purchased over the years like trophies of great deals I found, lol. Games are not FOOD, you won't die if you don't get to play it right away.... COD4:MW2 was downloaded illegally more than 10X the number sold for PC, if that says anything...
 
"We're happy to say ACII & SH5 are withstanding the efforts to crack them."

How could you be happy that you provide a crap service to paying customers and now a lot of them are waiting for a cracked version to be released.

Do you think that those people who are waiting are going to give up and buy the game just because they have to wait a few days? No of course not, in a few days when the cracked version is released a mass of people will download it. I know I will, not to play just to SEED.
 
Piracy damages their bottom dollar, and they are trying to do something about it. Too bad they are hurting legitimate customers in the process. I congratulate Ubisoft on producing some DRM that has lasted this long (not that I agree with it, but it normally doesn't last past Day 0).

Unfortunately DRM is a way of life that anyone who buys proprietary software supports.
 
Jesus shut up. If people wouldn't steal the damn games this wouldn't happen. I hope through things like this they do find a way to stop pirating. What is the deal. A few people can't play two games for a few hours and you rant about the evils of DRM. Are you retarded? The pirates are attacking the servers to prove a point. It's this: Uh Gosh Hey were so dumb that we don't realize that this is our fault in the first place so we are going to screw it up for people who support there game companies legitmately YAY! And yeah I am assuming that these attacks are affiliated with pirates at the least that is for sure motivation for there attacks to prove a hipocritical backwards ass point.
 
Basically, if you're lame and your servers can't cope with the load you may always pretend you're under a DDOS attack and get away with it since it's next to impossible for outsiders to prove otherwise. :)
 
I'd really be amused if this method of DRM actually works.Still, the DRM this game uses isnt what gets to me, its the fact like Modern Warfare 2 its a standard edition PC game that costs $60,thats crap i wont stand for,hence ive turned my mind and wallet from both of those games.
 
What happens 3 years down the road when they don't feel like supporting these games any more? Do they release a crack to their own game?
 
It's easy to Ubisoft say it's not their fault. They can blame hacking and DoS attacks for just about everything.

Ubisoft: I will use my "hackers did it" card John!
 
With all this DRM crap I'm not sure i even want to get that new pc I have wanted to build.Limiting my installs is a piss poor way to encourage me to dish out 4k on my dream machine.DRM isn't just about the people who make the games but think of the hardware.Why should we continue to buy at all.I'm quite sure if we the PC types stopped buying pc's it would get more than just the game developers attention.
This DRM is killing not just the sales of gaming but I would imagime pc sales as well.These company's have started a war.Lets give them what they want.
 
[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom] I congratulate Ubisoft on producing some DRM that has lasted this long (not that I agree with it, but it normally doesn't last past Day 0).Unfortunately DRM is a way of life that anyone who buys proprietary software supports.[/citation]

Are you kidding me? There's already an accepted solution by gamers. It's called Steam. There's no need to create these anti-consumer DRM techniques when there's a solution that works well, is consumer-friendly and is used happily by millions of gamers.

With that being said, hackers taking down the DRM server proves nothing. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. It only serves to weakens their position tremendously.

And what about these morons that say "now I'm going to pirate the game to make Ubisoft mad." How does that make any sense? You're telling them that you want their game and at the same time that their DRM is necessary. If you want to make them upset, don't buy the game and don't download it either. Show no interest.
 
I'd be curious how much "profit" companies like Ubisoft lose by using this type of DRM. Profit from people like myself, that would have bought ACII or SH5, but won't simply because of the implemented DRM.
 
Sure, the servers were 'under attack', here we go with Ubisoft blaming everyone but themselves for their servers failing!
 
Sure, the servers were 'under attack', here we go with Ubisoft blaming everyone but themselves for their servers failing!
 
So whats the problem you buy the game you get to play it. You don't buy it you don't get to play it. Let's drop all the ohh they are so evil for making us buy the game we want to play garbage and buy the damn game. Quit being so cheap.
 
[citation][nom]kentlowt[/nom]So whats the problem you buy the game you get to play it. You don't buy it you don't get to play it. Let's drop all the ohh they are so evil for making us buy the game we want to play garbage and buy the damn game. Quit being so cheap.[/citation]
I don't think you understand the situation. It's a single player game that requires you to be connected to the DRM servers AT ALL TIMES. If there's any lapse in connection, you are punted from the game immediately. All unsaved progress is lost. That's pretty harsh especially when there's options out there that are not so harsh -- like Steam.

It's not about money. It's about supporting or not supporting a company that deploys harsh tactics like this to protect their profits and to the detriment of the honest consumer.
 
While DRM does suck, all this "boycott DRM games" bs is only going to drive companies away from the PC instead of getting them to make DRM free games.
 
[citation][nom]mlauzon76[/nom]Sure, the servers were 'under attack', here we go with Ubisoft blaming everyone but themselves for their servers failing![/citation]

I have to agree with you on that, I don't believe they were attacked either, their servers failed, and now they just want to use others as a scapegoat, just like they are using paying customers as scapegoats for pirates.
 
[citation][nom]Sabiancym[/nom]While DRM does suck, all this "boycott DRM games" bs is only going to drive companies away from the PC instead of getting them to make DRM free games.[/citation]
I think there are a few problems with that logic. #1, what is the percentage of people that are actually aware of the DRM and not willing to put up with it? It's unclear. Sales numbers suggest that is is not a major concern for the majority of PC gamers. #2, when there is demand, someone will meet with supply. So while there are still PC gamers, there will be PC games. Companies that wish to cater to PC gamers need to provide a product that PC gamers will buy. #3, clearly there is an acceptable level of DRM. Steam has millions of users. #4, if anything is killing PC gaming, it's piracy, not DRM. There is a far lower rate of console piracy than PC piracy for obvious reasons. And unfortunately it's too late for PC gamers. Many years of piracy has resulted in DRM that is here to stay. So choose your poison and don't buy any games that deviate.
 
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