Valve has been sending notifications to customers who purchased
From Dust on
Steam offering refunds on the god game over its DRM requiring online authentication, reports
Rock, Paper, Shotgun. This follows
indications last week that some customers were able to get such refunds which were not confirmed at the time, and
Monday's announcement that this aspect of the game's DRM will be removed by a patch within a couple of weeks. Here's the email reproduced on RPS:
Ubisoft has just announced that they are working on a patch that will eliminate the need for any online authentication for From Dust. The patch will release in approximately two weeks.
If you don't want to wait or the patch or if you haven't played the game, per Ubisoft's request, we will issue refunds for this title.
If you would still like your purchase of From Dust to be refunded, please reply to this ticket.
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They keep taking the position that "its effective at reducing piracy" which I think is more like "its effective at reducing interest in the products" more than anything else. I don't buy or pirate any Ubisoft titles with this DRM. |
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