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PC Ubisoft Says Its DRM Is A Success, Correlates to Lower Piracy Rate

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Ubisoft nixed its always-on DRM with the release of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, yet decided to bring it back with the upcoming Driver: San Francisco on PC. By all accounts, the DRM received a hefty amount of backlash from consumers, mainly due to its requirement of having a
 
It probably posted an equal drop in sales. If I were a publisher I'd go with the 'bigger sales' option, regardless of the piracy.
 
Umm... how do they tell if a pirated game is being pirated? Most PC gamers I know just avoid Ubisoft now because of their DRM.
 
yeah, probably because no one wanted to even torrent their shit, or buy it because of the DRM.

Well I for one hope that there are torrents of games they release with the DRM cricumvented , so when I buy whatever game it is , I can play without that constant internet bullshit.
What if my network goes down due to a random DNS error?
Or my network cable falls out because it isn't secure in it's socket? OrETC
 
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