The Settlers 7 Demo Released

Been playing the demo and it's a really good game! Some really great ideas in this game and the graphics and art style are excellent. Still gotta learn the game as the included tutorials (which where just non-interactive videos) didn't really help that much.
I also got disconnected a few times due to the DRM (which was exciting...)
One really interesting feature that's built around the whole always online DRM is the ability to ask help from a mentor. What this basically does is if you need help (technical, gameplay or whatever) just click on the help button and type what you want. It then connects you with another player who you can chat with you in real-time. I think it's really cool. Was really funny first time I used it cause I had no idea what it was...the guy who received my message was like "WTF, who the hell is this". Gotta admit must have been kinda creepy playing SP and seeing a message pop up saying "Hello, what does this do?".

Overall, not buying because of DRM :P

Can we stop talking about the DRM in every Ubisoft post?

It only gives them more attention. Lets just zip it and ignore.

As long as Game Devs continue with this version of DRM, I will continue to not buy their games. Can't even believe that they forced their beta testers and now this Demo to have always-on internet connection.

This is stupid. How does having an internet connection defeat pirating? I don't want any software apps, other than my IM or my Browser, knowing and accessing my internet when they are not required to.

This would be like Microsoft Word application forcing us to have an always-on internet connection before we could type up a document.

Whole thing is ludicrous and needs to be stopped ASAP.

First Bluebyte gets bought (Fail #1) now Ubisoft slaps on the horrid "always-on" DRM on a single-player offline game (Fail #2) on top of it Ubisoft fucks up the box art (Fail #3). Such a shame. Settlers is a great concept and has a very long history in gaming, I still have the original game on discs.

Its unfortunate that Ubisoft have chosen the DRM they have as a "financially beneficial" route to take.

I guess with that stand point ill have to take the "financially beneficial" route for my self as well.

As PC Gamers, how much more rediculous are we gonna let DRM get before people actually stop buying DRM based games. Seriously.

Draconian DRM causes more piracy than it prevents. Fact.

There will ALWAYS be piracy. Fact.

A good game without anything more than a disc check will sell, and sell well. Fact. (See Mass Effect 2)

It seems I hear and see a lot of talk about how people are sick of DRM then they go buy the fucker anyway. What's the matter? Got no balls? Want to keep getting raped by corporations as a paying customer?

When pirates have less trouble playing your game than your paying customers, you have failed.

Wow, this looks exciting. Nothing gets me excited like walking the path to a kingdom!

Does anyone have a substantive comment about the demo itself? I'd like to know if the game is good or not. . .

With regards to piracy :-

If a man calls me a horse once, I tell him to fuck off. Id he calls me a horse twice, I punch him on the nose. If he calls me a horse 3 times, well, I might as well buy a saddle.

Basically, treat me like a pirate, and I'll pirate your game rather than buy it.

I won't buy the DRM shit but seriously, we're obviously a tiny portion of the market because they continue to crank that bullshit out and make money.

Failed big.

I feel sorry for the people who actually *made* the game. It looks like they put a lot of work into it, only to have every ounce of their effort completely overshadowed by a decision from some top-level committee of executives.

And now if it doesn't meet sales goals, who's gonna get blamed? Not the executives who shackled it with this toxic DRM.

Wait... wait, wait, wait. Why the ever loving fuck does the DEMO have DRM?

Too bad it uses their crappy DRM - it's now become a "don't-buy" game. Sorry Ubisoft, you've failed.

LOL @ Ubisoft's DRM

If they at least would drop that DRM from the Steam version. But like this, no go.

this looks good, gonna try this when i get home.

Is the demo going to appear on Steam?

I was really looking forward to this one...Always loved this series...Not a chance in hell though with Ubi's DRM though.

The graphics/art looks great. I won't even give the game a try though as I refuse to support Ubisoft's DRM mechanic.