New Ubisoft games must always be online

[MonsterHunterMaster]

I am so fed up with the gaming industry..

 

Digital Copies.. Check

Internet connection requirements.. Check

You must be online to play single player... Check

If you are offline your DLC won't work... Check

You buy a retail copy of a game just to figure out the disc installs steam to play the game... Check

 

I am getting sick of this, sorry for the ranting I am just tired of being governed by games that I OWN! It started with the source games like Half-Life 2, now Dawn of war 2 and UBISOFT games. It is pathetic. People need to group up and protest against the game companies that are doing this: that way the message becomes clear. We vote with our dollar, so if the company can't provide us with the comfort we desire we will take our business ELSEWHERE!

 

:thanks:

 

The companies will recognise that their system fails, because there are a lot of people without internet, also a lot of people who aren't online/don't want to be online all the time,

who are not going to buy their game/ their games anymore.

Means, if they want the people to buy the game again, they need to put this alltime online feature thing away from their games..

[hoots7]

Has Ubisoft put out a good game anyways? haha

 

But, this is BS...and another one joins my list of companies I won't buy from. Seriously, this is going to hurt them BAD. About the dumbest idea I've seen to combat piracy. They need to understand that whatever they do to stop it, the pirates will just keep trying to get past it :( Sad, but true. It doesn't matter, they'll find a way.

 

I know of a few folks that don't have the Internet and play single player games. With this crap, it's like they are forced to have the Internet in order to even play it...that's just wrong.

 

Absolutely and I don't want to have to use an internet connection to play a game I bought from a store; just rubs me the wrong way.

[MonsterHunterMaster]

Has Ubisoft put out a good game anyways? haha

 

i hope the new splinter cell isn't from Ubisoft anymore...

 

Do you also have to be online on their console games or just the PC games?

Because if you also have to be online on console games of them, they will ruin theirselves, thats a 100% for sure!

[Vagrant0]

Do you also have to be online on their console games or just the PC games?

Because if you also have to be online on console games of them, they will ruin theirselves, thats a 100% for sure!

Doubt they would go that far, but you really never know what sort of screwed up logic they're trying to get away with.

[WoogieMonster]

The companies will recognise that their system fails, because there are a lot of people without internet, also a lot of people who aren't online/don't want to be online all the time,

who are not going to buy their game/ their games anymore.

Means, if they want the people to buy the game again, they need to put this alltime online feature thing away from their games..

 

No, they won't. They were not even going to tell you they made this change, it was reported by 3rd-party gaming blogs, and ubisoft is just doing "damage control" now. Want me to prove it to you? Go to amazon and look up a game that uses this feature (someone mentioned Dawn of War 2). Nothing on that page tells you that you MUST have Steam to play, your only warning is the people complaining in the comment section. There's nothing on the box either. Ubisoft, (like EA with Spore) was just going to slip it in and hope nobody cried foul, thankfully they both failed horrendously, but companies are going to keep trying to quietly slip stuff into the games.

 

Q - What happens if I pre-ordered my game without being aware of the permanent online connection requirement ? Can I get a refund?

A - Please check with your retailer to find out their return policies.

Translation: Yes we're screwing you. Yes we know that you know we're screwing you. Are we going to correct it, no, screw you.

 

Teachers used to say if you call a kid "stupid" enough times his grades will start to drop. People are tired of being called criminals and companies are only causing the problem they claim to be trying to stop. Granted, two wrongs do not make a right ( but 3 lefts do). The biggest problem with this issue (even bigger a problem than the game companies being ran by tards) is that it's a never ending circle: something got downloaded > drm > more people download to protest drm > new drm > more people download to protest new drm > new new drm > more people... you see where I'm going with this.

[MonsterHunterMaster]

But I guess if the people noticed it the are going to report about it.

If Ubisoft is finally going to make this online thing for all their games, game magazines are going to report about it.

And then, people won't play the games.

They are going to think "Ubisoft screwed me? No, I'm going to screw them!"

 

And if all the games have this drm feature, well then not the people will be screwed, the companies will be screwed, because as you said, Ubisoft won't tell about that they put the drm feature into their games. But there are a lot of 3rd gaming blogs that tell about it, and this blogs spread out, for example those informations reached the forums here.

They will reach other forums.

And when it's spread out and most of the people know about it, they wonÄt buy the game. And then Ubisoft has to replace it, cuz then

A: people buy the games from other companies

B: Ubisoft gets destroyed cuz they get no money anymore. (or maybe not much money/less money than other ompanies)

[evilneko]

At least some Steam games can be played whether online or not, AND Steam is an example of actual user licensing rather than machine licensing.. Steam doesn't care where you are or what computer you're using, you've got access to your stuff if you can make a connection long enough to download it if it's not already installed. It has its problems, but it's better than the crap Ubisoft is pulling.

[WoogieMonster]

@ EvilNeko - Sometimes when I read your name, I check to make sure you're not behind me.

 

Someone earlier in the thread had mentioned Dawn of War, so I was only using that as an example that companies do not write everything on the box that you really need for the game to play. And in the case of what this company is doing, their spokesmen is admitting they realize they are not warning people and he's basically saying "tough @&$%."

Q - What happens if I pre-ordered my game without being aware of the permanent online connection requirement ? Can I get a refund?

A - Please check with your retailer to find out their return policies.

Everyone knows you can not return computer related software if it's open, and it will be open because that's the only way you're going to find out you just got jacked. Just as big of a problem as what they are doing, is the fact that they are doing it and trying to be sneaky about it, that's all I was trying to say.

[CommanderCrazy]

@WoogieMonster to EvilNeko - Sometimes when I read your name, I check to make sure you're not behind me.

In Japanese, Neko means cat, so her name is EvilCat.

You may need to look lower next time :devil:

[clouddew]

Ask yourself this....

Do you like STEAM?

If so then accept this as UBISOFT trying to come up with their version of STEAM authentication.

 

If you don't like this then logically you can't like steam.

 

 

Last time I looked Lots of people liked Steam.

I'm not one btw, although I have accidentally purchased 3 games which need steam :(