1UP - One of your three installations of Anno 2070 is chewed up anytime your video card is replaced.
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…
Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.
Man the industry just keeps on going with all this bs and to think this is ubisoft again remember what happened with that skull bones team same crap.
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This game will be tossed out broken unplolished with a bloated budget trying to be cod but will fail sense ubi can get there shit in order. If i was me i would have gotten rid of this boys club asap there is alot looking for work out there.
Every industry has these issues
Some companies I’ve worked for were great and some were toxic as hell (UPS when I was a teenager was extremely toxic and I have heard it still is) It all starts at the top. They either hold people accountable , set standards and treat people with respect or the crap rolls downhill.
Yes, if I'm changing my graphics card, I lose an activation? Oh wait this card was faulty I lost an activation? Oh I've changed my mind I want this other graphics card. Oh look! No activations left and I'm £40 down I love not owning my games anymore. Who ever decided upon this drm deserves to go to hell.
Q. Has Ubisoft's DRM Gone Too Far?
A. Yes
Pirates just get cracked versions of games without the DRM. The only people who can't play a game with DRM are people who legally purchase games.
When a DRM negatively impacts the experience for legitimate customers, then yes.
Having to be always connected to the internet in Single Player modes is a big negative for me (No more playing games on my laptop while travelling. Losing progress in the game because my connection bugs out for a moment. Login servers sometimes being down which happened a lot for Anno 1404)
I can just about live with the activation limit, and even losing an activation if I change hardware because in reality I don't change hardware that often, and I only install games on the two machines I own... BUT, there must be a quick and easy method of claiming back those activations otherwise the DRM is a just a huge hassle.
I will definitely be thinking twice about buying PC games from UbiSoft in future. And as I said in another DRM post... the only people getting a good experience are those who pirate the game, and as broadband speeds increase UbiSoft should watch out for more people bypassing their draconian DRM by pirating.
Who's the genius who thought about having a constant internet connection?I would like to talk to him or her.
Ubisoft? Who's Ubisoft?
I've reached a point where I just don't give a damn about Ubisoft games. They've dropped completely off my radar so to speak. It's okay though. Not enough time and money for me to play every darn game worth playing out there, so somebody has to go and Ubisoft made it easy by sawing off the branch they're sitting on.