The Settlers 7 Gets More DRM Details, New Trailer, Digital-Only Gold Edition

Man, DRM is getting worse and worse. When are companies gonna realize that treating your consumers like pirates aint gonna sell your product?

ahhhh ubi...tsk tsk... played the older settlers once or twice...and was getting into the lil hype bout this but with ur foolishness 4 it and AC2 .....lol.....I wait until u come 2 around.. ohhh hi starcraft 2....and bf2 bad company 2....u ain't valve ubi so stop pretending and make goood games

Never buying a new Ubisoft pc game again so long as that draconian drm is in effect.

A game like this is kind of perfect to play on your laptop when you are away from home without any internet connection, I bet there are a lot of people thinking that.
And the only way to do it now is by NOT buying it, yeah the DRM is gonna be pwnd after a few days no doubt.

WTG Ubisoft, I will never buy a game with a dumb DRM as this one.

Yeah cool. Keep the game. Guess I will just "pause my buyers interest" until you "reconnect to sanity". Until then, enjoy not getting money.

Here is a petition asking UBISOFT to noy use this DRM, please sign if it doesnt work at least we tried.
http://www.petitiononline.com/ew15dl94/petition.html

Looks like Direct2Drive have stuck up Ubisoft's Silent Hunter 5 too and it has pretty much the same setup.

Regular edition at $50, "Gold Edition" at $60 with extras: 3 famous non-playable (?!) historic U-boats, four famous Allied ships, an official guide, and another guide about the subs and ships in the game.

And of course the same DRM, though they don't mention it on Direct2Drive.


http://www.direct2drive.com/5/9146/product/Buy-Silent-Hunter:-Battle-Of-The-Atlantic-Download

http://www.direct2drive.com/5/9213/product/Buy-Silent-Hunter:-Battle-Of-The-Atlantic-Gold-Edition-Download

Is this a game that actually needs a draconian DRM system? I mean, this is not your typical hit game among the "don't actually have a job/money" demographic, or some boycott-able sequel, or any other stick-it-to-the-man prospect.

Simple lesson for Ubisoft. Use DRM at first installation and further updates to the game, elsewise only use it for multiplayer modes. No one will care and its enough to keep piracy / sharing low.

I don't really care if a game wants to connect to the internet when I start to play it, but if it's going to completely block me out if my connection dies, then what the fuck.

I wonder how long it'll be until there's backlash like when a lot of publishers used starforce

"Now that we know how victory points work..." - Wait! Rewind! You didn't explain it yet!

Well... if every gaming machine in the world had a 100% connection to the net, this would be a perfect solution on paper, but of course thats not true and this is sacrificing the less net-able in a battle vs the pirates.

I'd never pirate a game normally but if I buy as ubisoft game in future i'd probably be tempted to grab a cracked version as well so I can play on my laptop on trips which I do regulary. Thinking of a comprimise here but how about Ubisoft offering people who registers thier game a mini 3g/gprs dongle purely for authentication on thier games or something? Like a 21st century cd check. Again not every place has even a gprs signal

However the question I want answered is: has DRM ever worked for single player games? Any examples at all? I dont mean a game that sold well in spite of piracy, but one that I'd struggle to find a pirated version of I genuinely want effective DRM, (personally I'd be happy with Ubisoft's solution if it gave me a fortnight leeway between net connections) but it MUST also fight piracy effectively.

It seems to me that no matter how clever the DRM is, within a few days of release there will be a pirated version up for download that works fine with minimal effort. Ats it stands game companies are trying to fight pirates by bringing bigger and bigger swords to a gunfight.

I can see how this will work 2-3 people buy the game make a pirate version take it back to the shop and end up having 100% rate of cracked versions only in use.

I don't particularly care if they release a Platinum Bidet Edition that cleans my ass with unicorn tears.

DRM like that is unacceptable.

Still retarded. I'll never buy this or Assassin's Creed 2, two games I was really looking forward to. I just cannot get behind this kind of copy protection, although I guess we all saw it coming. We all should REALLY not support this.

fuck you ubisoft. burn in hell.

I liked the art direction and gameplay from settlers 2 -> 3 -> 4. I haven't enjoyed a settlers game since. I remain hopeful that this one would be fun.

Next thing you know they'll want to sniff your system to see what apps you're running in the background and your hard drive to see if you have any apps they think might be related to pirating. After that, they'll want to turn on your mic and your webcam to check you out personally. If you don't look like someone they trust then you're breaking the license agreement and they'll ban you for life.

Hmmmmm... come to think of it, what's to keep Sony and MS from doing something similar with their new motion control schemes? Better read the legal stuff real close to make sure by using the thing you aren't agreeing to allow them to turn on those devices and send random captures back to head quarters. Or worse yet, it's an avenue for the government to do it. Okay. Scared myself now. grrrrr!

I like how they specify exactly how many windows you get.

Not one.

Not three.

But /two/ windows! BUY NOW! Only 6 payments of $9.99! Order now and get this FREE debilitating DRM!

I'd rather play Anno 1404, thank you.

Hm. Ubisoft. Draconian drm. What a suprise.