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Ubisoft: DRM "Vital" To PC Success

[Apr 16, 2010, 09:51 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

VG247 quotes Splinter Cell: Conviction creative director Max Béland saying Ubisoft's PC DRM, which requires a constant internet connection, is "vital" to their business. He said: "We consider that protecting our PC games is vital to our business, and will allow us to continue investing in the development of creative and innovative games on the PC platform." This is excerpted from a full interview with Béland, which is accompanied by the first 20 minutes of Splinter Cell: Conviction in video.

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Re: Ubisoft: DRM

Apr 20, 2010, 05:07

Closed Betas

Could it be they are using the PC Game industry for future testing? It's no secret everyone is bailing from PC... Can they be using the self inflicted dieing PC industry and lackluster sales to incorporate this technology into console monitoring.... The only reason piracy is not an issue here because it is not tracked, once it becomes the easy way.. It'll will be their problem, then what do they do? I don't buy the fact they are leaving this industry because of piracy, they just don't want to support and deal with the headaches of the non tech savvy customer and the gajillion different pc's and performance levels, multiple OS's and bits.. let alone all the 3rd party problems in between, networking, etc. Consoles are easy, cheap, pretty non supportive, and sell for more... If they can develop an anti piracy issue to take online console games.. that could be the bank they are truly looking at.. using piracy as the hoopla smoke and mirrors

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Comment [quote="Closed Betas"Apr 20, 2010, 05:07]Could it be they are using the PC Game industry for future testing? It's no secret everyone is bailing from PC... Can they be using the self inflicted dieing PC industry and lackluster sales to incorporate this technology into console monitoring.... The only reason piracy is not an issue here because it is not tracked, once it becomes the easy way.. It'll will be their problem, then what do they do? I don't buy the fact they are leaving this industry because of piracy, they just don't want to support and deal with the headaches of the non tech savvy customer and the gajillion different pc's and performance levels, multiple OS's and bits.. let alone all the 3rd party problems in between, networking, etc. Consoles are easy, cheap, pretty non supportive, and sell for more... If they can develop an anti piracy issue to take online console games.. that could be the bank they are truly looking at.. using piracy as the hoopla smoke and mirrors [/quote]

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