beer Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 We’ve almost completely given up discussing Ubisoft DRM here at Maximum PC, and with good reason. Just about every PC release seems to ship with some draconian and insanely punishing copy protection mechanism designed to drive paying customers insane. Anno 2070 was no different, releasing with an activation system that limited you to a total of 3 lifetime activations, ohh and upgrading your video card, as discovered by Guru3D, counts against this total.After briefly toying with the idea of completely excluding all future Ubisoft titles from graphics card benchmarks, Guru3D did the right thing, and decided only by reporting on the issues would any action ever be taken to improve the situation. Thanks in no small part of their efforts, Ubisoft has lightened up a bit on its restrictions, now allowing users to upgrade graphics cards without triggering an additional activation.Swapping out your motherboard, CPU, or of course formatting Windows still counts, and no, you still can’t manually deactivate to reset your total. The only option is to call customer service and beg forgiveness, ohh or buy another copy that works too.(source) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beer Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 Nice DRM. I don't even want to play this even it was for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Nice DRM. I don't even want to play this even it was for free.agree. video counts wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 23, 2012 Administrator Share Posted January 23, 2012 LOL. As if pirates need to worry about these DRMs. :lol:Ubisoft is only loosing good customers by doing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeMasteR Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I would not miss Ubisoft as publisher if they weren`t, same goes for other ones with similar DRMs. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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