6 March 2010

The tower is falling...

So, Ubisoft's DRM has apparently been hacked - or at least commented out in a cracked .exe. In a rather interesting move, the publisher has made it so that the first update to Assassin's Creed 2 allows the players to continue from the point where they lost their connection rather than being put back to the last checkpoint. It sort of strikes me as a move that's pointless since, most of the time you have to quit out of your game to sort out the connection issues in the first place and i'm pretty sure that once the game is closed, there's no way to resume from where you were...

It's interesting just how quickly this has been cracked. Even Starforce and other DRM took longer on their first sojourn into the world. Hopefully the answer from publishers and developers will not be to escalate this stupid war any further... the next step from this is a dongle-based authentication system..... Having to hack or buy hardware to use your games (although not undoable) becomes more unfavourable than just downloading a cracked .exe or ISO.

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