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Driver: San Francisco DRM Relaxed

[Aug 18, 2011, 11:53 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Ubisoft Forums have word that Ubisoft has reconsidered the plan to use their unpopular always-on DRM in Driver: San Francisco, and players will not be required to be connected to the internet to play the upcoming open-world driving action game (thanks Shacknews). Here's the announcement:

We've heard your feedback regarding the permanent internet connection requirement for Driver and have made the decision to no longer include it. So this means that Driver PC gamers will only need to sign in at game launch but can subsequently choose to play the game offline.

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Re: Driver: San Francisco DRM Relaxed

Aug 18, 2011, 15:51

Frijoles

wtf_man wrote on Aug 18, 2011, 15:31: Not quite. Both From Dust and Driver: San Francisco require a internet connection EVERY time you launch the game. (So the DRM still sucks)... but if you lose your internet connection after you launched... you can still play (until you exit... then you need an internet connection again to launch again). As posted up a few comments, this was changed in From Dust. ~~It now requires an always-on connection.~~ In fact, they're giving refunds last I saw. Edit: I was corrected below. Not always-on, just on launch. And after the game, apparently, to sync the save file. This comment was edited on Aug 18, 2011, 16:22.

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Comment [quote="Frijoles"Aug 18, 2011, 15:51][quote="wtf_man"Aug 18, 2011, 15:31] Not quite. Both From Dust and Driver: San Francisco require a internet connection EVERY time you launch the game. (So the DRM still sucks)... but if you lose your internet connection after you launched... you can still play (until you exit... then you need an internet connection again to launch again).[/quote] As posted up a few comments, this was changed in From Dust. -[It now requires an always-on connection.]- In fact, they're giving refunds last I saw. Edit: I was corrected below. Not always-on, just on launch. And after the game, apparently, to sync the save file. [/quote]

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