Assassin's Creed Brotherhood DRM Clarification

The quote from last week about the DRM is Assassin's Creed Brotherhood saying "The PC version of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, after an initial login, will be playable offline in single player mode," was widely interpreted to mean the game would require one online connection every time you played. Then Verno pointed out a tweet by Gabriel Graziani that said this about authentication: "Once after install... then offline play will be available to you." We contacted Ubisoft and confirmed that the stealth/action sequel will only need a single online authentication, after which the single-player campaign will always be available.
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Mar 2, 2011, 23:52
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Mar 2, 2011, 23:52
 Quboid
 
nin wrote on Mar 2, 2011, 23:26:
Step 1: Come up with DRM based on authentication. People won't go for it, but that's ok, since you:

Step 2: Crank it up a notch, and see if it still flies. It won't, but that's fine, since then we have...

Step 3: After everyone is suitably outraged, roll it back to the original plan, and watch gamers give praise. You're now a saint, people buy your product, and you have the auth you wanted all along.


You chumps are being played.


I presume this is aimed partly at me? I don't think Ubi are saints, far from it. I distrust them a lot, but I'm not going to deprive myself of games I'd like to play just because they used to be nasty. If everyone did that, there would be no incentive for them to back down. It was rash to pre-order and not wait for post-release reports but hey, someone has to do the post-release reporting.

I bought Ubi games, the ones worth buying. Then they put always-on DRM in and I stopped buying Ubi games. They are removing the always-on DRM and I've bought an Ubi game. That's not being played, that's sending Ubi a message - albeit a message they'll never notice.
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