Ubisoft's new uncrackable, intrusive, and annoying DRM cracked in under 24 hours...

[keling]

Assassin's Creed 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, Silent Hunter 5. All of these games are the ones that I've been waiting for this month but the new Ubisoft DRM scheme effectively killed my plans of buying any of them. I have internet connection but through a cheap 3G mobile broadband service. My own 3G broadband provider doesn't provide 3G services in my own hometown. My sister's service provider has 3G but has a tendency to cut itself off anytime I open a game or leave it unused for more than 10 minutes. I'm planning to buy a true internet connection in a couple of months but the idea of having to be online just to play a singleplayer campaign is not my cup of tea.

Do what EA did with BFBC2 - give us options. I chose to activate the game and that was a smart choice. Now I can play it without using DVD or staying online all the time. The 10 install limits? So what. By the third or fourth installation, BFBS3 would be coming out. And several patches later, maybe a no DVD check exe will be officially given....maybe.

 

[AsRock]

was just reading a review on SH5 and here's what one guy had to say. I guess it was expected though huh.

Another disappointment from Ubisoft.....I paid almost fifty dollars for the game, played it one day, and now it doesn't even open due to a problem with the online saved game synchronization. As usual, no tech support from Ubisoft, the only suggestion from them........turn off your firewall!!!! Let's get real here. My suggestion, don't even bother to look at the trailer on this one and definately don't waste your money, its a real disappointment.

 

[gunsmoke]

any fink with ubi on the game box says it all..
put it back on the shelf and save your cash and the head arc,,,

 

[AsRock]

So many complaints it's silly.
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4721051016/m/7481010838

Here's another thread about people complaining about it.. Pretty sad really and gotta wounder how much this has cost them.

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4721051016/m/9761009738

 

[newtekie1]

You would think, if they were going to roll out this new DRM that requires the user to have a connection to their server 24/7, they would make 100% sure that the server actually worked...maybe have some kind of redundancy if the first server did fail...like it did...

 

[Yukikaze]

You would think, if they were going to roll out this new DRM that requires the user to have a connection to their server 24/7, they would make 100% sure that the server actually worked...maybe have some kind of redundancy if the first server did fail...like it did...

I am waiting on the class action, myself. It will be fun to watch the fireworks.

I really hope this thing falls flat on its face, because if it gets picked up by more games, the PC gaming market will be a very, very, very sad place.

 

[newconroer]

I don't now if it was mentioned already, though I didn't see it...

The portion of entering a CD Key into the Ubisoft launcher, has been bypassed, or 'cracked,' as some would say, but both of their flagship games under this new DRM system, Assassins Creed II and Silent Hunter 5, become broken.

As mentioned in the other thread, I cannot consider it a successful cracking, if the software breaks down because of the methods use to bypass the DRM.

So until the games are 100% functioning, through a cracked method, then Ubisoft's DRM is doing it's job.

 

[pantherx12]

By the way where did you get this information?

As apparently it works completely fine : ]


Skid-row don't tend to state " then play the game" in their read me files unless the game actually plays.


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[vbx]

Cities XL requires a constant internet connection and a username/password to login. I have no issues with it so far.

 

[Suijin]

I've grown to hate even CD authentication. If I want to play a game on my laptop that I bought, then I need to make sure I drag the CD around with me everywhere in case I want to play it??? If I have more than 1 game I need to carry all the game CDs around, that is retarded. Meanwhile people who didn't buy the game but have a cracked version don't have that problem and didn't have to buy the game either. Talk about punishing the people who actually buy the game.

I just stopped buying games basically for these reasons, and no I don't pirate any either.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I am waiting on the class action, myself. It will be fun to watch the fireworks.

I really hope this thing falls flat on its face, because if it gets picked up by more games, the PC gaming market will be a very, very, very sad place.

You'd think Ubisoft would have learned their lesson from previous experiences with consumer complaints involving Tages and Star-Force protection. Instead, they decided SecuROM wasn't good enough so they moved back towards the agressive protection methods of Tages and Star-Force and, surprise, people hate it. Ignorance alone is killing PC gaming.

I don't now if it was mentioned already, though I didn't see it...

The portion of entering a CD Key into the Ubisoft launcher, has been bypassed, or 'cracked,' as some would say, but both of their flagship games under this new DRM system, Assassins Creed II and Silent Hunter 5, become broken.

As mentioned in the other thread, I cannot consider it a successful cracking, if the software breaks down because of the methods use to bypass the DRM.

So until the games are 100% functioning, through a cracked method, then Ubisoft's DRM is doing it's job.

It is stupifyingly simple to break Internet authentication: just mimic what the server does locally. Done. They can make game protection extremely complex to break like Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (I think it took over a year to break) but it will evetually be broke and in the meantime, you're making your customers unhappy. It is lose-lose for everyone except those companies that make the anti-piracy software that doesn't work.

 

[CrackerJack]

Well just notice there is a working crack for AC2 lol not much for a crack, the game was crack a week prior of the release. Just as we all know the whole server connection and saves was crackers fear. Well not anymore, I can say I really see this coming. Using Crack/Server Emulator


With that said I would say game dev have made a HUGE improvement! It's one small step against piracy. Ubi just needs to keep there servers up!

 

[pantherx12]

Protip : Pirates always find a way.

Most of them are extremely talented software engineers or have just been hacking for years.

To fight them is a waste of resources.

Especially when they cause little to no damage to sales.

People that pirate games probably would not buy the game anyway, simple as that.

 

[mdsx1950]

Protip : Pirates always find a way.

Most of them are extremely talented software engineers or have just been hacking for years.

To fight them is a waste of resources.

Especially when they cause little to no damage to sales.

People that pirate games probably would not buy the game anyway, simple as that.

+1 to that.

To fight them is a waste of resources. And a pain in the ass for the customers who buy the real thing and have to struggle alot.

If hackers can pirate Windows 7 and the best virus guards (Kaspersky and NOD32). What can they not do?

 

[pantherx12]

Let alone hacking into US military data bases etc.

There was a UK guy a few years ago who hacked into loads of US high security servers.

The Pentagon etc etc


He was just one guy.

 

[mdsx1950]

So just imagine a whole team LOL!

 

[pantherx12]

The US tried to make him have his trial over there so they could put him away for ever*, I wonder what ever happened to him : [

Should of given him a job, I don't think he even done anything malicious was just leaving silly notes and changing backgrounds and other silly bits.




* I assume this was because if their was any secret things he looked at they were shitting bricks he would say something.

 

[mdsx1950]

Maybe they recruited him to work as their personal hacker. (Can never say )

 

[CrackerJack]

Protip : Pirates always find a way.

Most of them are extremely talented software engineers or have just been hacking for years.

To fight them is a waste of resources.

Especially when they cause little to no damage to sales.

People that pirate games probably would not buy the game anyway, simple as that.

I'm fully aware of that

You be suprise on how many pirates buy games

I was just shock it took them this long to do it. Most groups are in the numbers of 30+ spread world wide.

But from what I said before, I can't figure out the team that did this. I would more likely say Skid, Razor or Reloaded but I know it's not them

 

[CrackerJack]

Maybe they recruited him to work as their personal hacker. (Can never say )

More than likely... This how several friends and relatives got there jobs

 

[WhiteLotus]

The US tried to make him have his trial over there so they could put him away for ever*, I wonder what ever happened to him : [

Should of given him a job, I don't think he even done anything malicious was just leaving silly notes and changing backgrounds and other silly bits.




* I assume this was because if their was any secret things he looked at they were shitting bricks he would say something.

You mean this guy.

 

[CrackerJack]

Mr McKinnon, 43, who has Asperger's syndrome, is accused of breaking into the US military computer system. He says he was seeking evidence of UFOs.

LMAO UFO's Hackers favorite excuse

 

[pantherx12]

You mean this guy.

That's the one thanks man, was wondering how it was going for him

 

[Deleted member 24505]

He was just a harmelss idiot i think,i can understand why hs is terrified of a trial in the us,he would get 25yrs or something rediculous.

 

[douglatins]

I am worried that no AC2 has been released