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Re: Ubisoft DRM Titles Confirmed

Feb 28, 2010, 11:18

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Dmitri_M: Make sure you and your friends are aware that any ubisoft games can transfer more than 15 gigs a month on this thing. (the math from them having a constant net connection that does more than most dialup at 50k baud per what Ubisoft said). Don't want you guys to be surprised by a big unexpected bill. Parallax Abstraction / Prez: I think they are thinking about what blizzard has been saying all along, that you need to log into battle.net to play D3/SC2 titles (even in single player), and that blizzard has been removing LAN play because of this. So yeah, its similar in some ways. The thing is, I don't think they will require a constant authentication and kill game progress if it fails. I think it will be more like steam (although valve games still offer LAN play) so you login once and then play. Plus, blizzard has shown that they have a dedication to keeping servers running (unlike EA that often shuts down game servers after a year or two, blizzard hasn't shut down any needed to play games) and they are well aware of what MMORPG like infrastructure will require (since they run WoW and have run battle.net for years too) to keep battle.net going. Ubisoft is jumping into it blind and has no clue and hasn't run any alpha/beta/stress tests on the MMO like infrastructure they need to run thier crap. So when thier servers go down frequently (and you can bet they will), they will stop everyone from being able to play. This comment was edited on Feb 28, 2010, 11:26.

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