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[Guilty_AI]

Interesting, I thought buying games on PC supposed to safe from bullshit like this

My cracked original copy is definitely safe from this.

 

[brian0057]

I'm being realistic, or do you seriously think physical media will save your gaems from being taken away from you?

Short of the developer or publisher coming to my house and breaking my kneecaps if I don't surrender my copies to them, they can't do anything about it.
Physical > Digital.
And no. Those "physical" releases that amount to a Steam code on a box don't count.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Short of the developer or publisher coming to my house and breaking my kneecaps if I don't surrender my copies to them, they can't do anything about it.
Physical > Digital.
And no. Those "physical" releases that amount to a Steam code on a box don't count.

They don't need to go through that much trouble, nor reduce physical releases to serial codes.

A login screen is all it takes. Sometimes not even that, just a few lines of code in your physical disk saying the game must connect to the servers before it can start.

 

[jaysius]

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Any self respecting PC gamer should avoid Ubisoft games.

Almost, Anno games are pretty fucking awesome though.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Any self respecting PC gamer should crack their Ubisoft games.

better

 

[TLZ]

They don't need to go through that much trouble, nor reduce physical releases to serial codes.

A login screen is all it takes. Sometimes not even that, just a few lines of code in your physical disk saying the game must connect to the servers before it can start.

That's with games that require online gaming. Single player games don't have that. I honestly don't know what you're trying hard to argue. And what you're saying applies to digital btw, that's why it's a problem.

I can play all my PS3 and PS4 games offline no problem. No one's taking that away from me. If that was digital though? They might revoke the licences and pulled from the server completely. No downloads, no refunds. That's a big problem for me.

 

[MaKTaiL]

I think they are talking about the multiplayer related DLCs.

 

[Guilty_AI]

That's with games that require online gaming. Single player games don't have that. I honestly don't know what you're trying hard to argue. And what you're saying applies to digital btw, that's why it's a problem.

I can play all my PS3 and PS4 games offline no problem. No one's taking that away from me. If that was digital though? They might revoke the licences and pulled from the server completely. No downloads, no refunds. That's a big problem for me.

I'm arguing that it doesn't matter whether the game is digital or physical. What matters is the DRM implementation for each game.

I can play my GOG collection offline without any login no problem too, even a lot of my steam collection. But you can't play NFS 2015, singleplayer or not, on your ps4 offline even if you have a physical copy of the game.
The medium isn't whats important, its the form of DRM in place, and Disks aren't safe from being tethered to servers.

 

[Aenima]

Making the DLC not acessible anymore is a weird move.

 

[T-Cake]

Is it worth buying the Deluxe/Gold editions of AC Brotherhood + Revelations for £1 more? They're currently on sale (£3.80 vs £4.80) but I'm not going to play them right away. They're the only two AC games I'm missing in my collection. I think it would bug me just buying the standard editions though.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

This is"funny" because I had this discussion with someone from their support team when I bought far cry 3 on Steam (that was also the last time I bought a game that forced me into a second store/DRM system).

So nothing that adds a second layer to the store where I get games on PC (I get the free games on Epic and got some GOG games as well).

Thankfully I don't play EA games.

 

[IAmNotFromDelaware]

At first I was annoyed. But then I remembered how horrible ubisoft game support is already on PC. So basically, I already can't play their games or DLCs. I tried Syndicate and Origins. They both both kept crashing on my AMD video card.

Ended up buying an XSX and a 20 foot hdmi cable so I could play on my computer monitor. Screw Ubisoft and their horrible PC support.