Ubisoft's "Driver: San Francisco" Requires Permanent Internet Connection

[nsane.forums]

It's almost as if they don't trust us: PC gamers planning on playing Ubisoft's upcoming Driver: San Francisco better make sure that their Internet connection is in full working order, because without it you're not going to be able to play -- much like Assassin's Creed II and Settlers 7. If your connection drops, so does your game.

Confirmation of the inclusion of the controversial DRM came in a tweet from the official Twitter account for the game. Ubisoft's response for people who didn't appreciate the inclusion of this DRM system was that the console version would be available at the same time.

True enough; but then console owners have to contend with Ubi's new Uplay Passport system preventing owners of preowned copies from accessing "multiplayer and bonus features" without paying an extra $9.99 or 800 Microsoft Points.

Ubisoft claims to be "working to evolve and improve" its DRM systems, but this sounds awfully like the same service used in earlier titles -- a service which, when hacked last March caused legitimate players to be unable to play the games they had purchased for considerable periods of time.

Now come on, Ubisoft. We thought you were over this nonsense.

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[DKT27]

*facepalm*

They'll never learn. It takes one group of scene and a couple of days (or even one) to crack their DRM sh*t. Go screw your paying customers Ubisoft. -_-

[SnakeMasteR]

Same rubbish as Assassins Creed II, first was P2P server emulation, second

one was Skid Rowdies release. But it takes a little bit of free time to get all the

required data for emulation. But Ubisofts DRM was beaten since AC II. There

is not a really way to "evolve and improve" this crap. I won`t buy it, because

i will not support such sort of DRM crap, never. :ph34r:

[myidisbb]

I won`t buy it, because i will not support such sort of DRM crap, never. :ph34r:

so say us all

[alaindc]

*facepalm*

They still believe that this DRM nonsense will help them sell more games?

Wake up, Ubisoft!

Another game i won't buy...and not even on console.

[Tweety.Abd]

*facepalm*

They'll never learn. It takes one group of scene and a couple of days (or even one) to crack their DRM sh*t. Go screw your paying customers Ubisoft. -_-

LOl that's true, they're just screwing their paid customers, there's no way they can protect their games from being cracked. I believe they may have gotten their DRM inspiration from HAWX 2 since it's never been cracked. I still have the .iso file in hope that one day there will be a crack for it, but so far, it seems like there's no hope :( I'm not sure how many DRM-protected games are out there, but I know of two: Assassins Creed 2 & HAWX 2. The former were patched by SKIDROW, but it took them a long time to do that, though server activation were available, and the latter has never been cracked by anyone. So I guess it's quite hard to crack DRM games, but I'm not cracker so I wouldn't know.