Steam From Dust Refunds

[Aug 24, 2011, 10:42 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

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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Re: Steam From Dust Refunds

Aug 24, 2011, 15:44

Verno

Darks wrote on Aug 24, 2011, 15:39:

I’m not buttheurt, I’m just saying that until there’s an actual crack for the game. Then it’s designated uncrackable. Whether they are trying to crack it or wanting to is no different. It’s still a game that’s sitting there uncracked. So explain to me the difference? All I’m pointing out is that Ubi can use this to gage their reasoning into their DRM success even though we all disagree with their doing it.

First off, you said unbreakable, not "uncrackable". Second just because it's currently uncracked doesn't mean it cannot be cracked. If you can't understand the fundamental difference between those two concepts I don't know what more to say to you. If Ubisoft wants to look at HAWX2 as a DRM success then who cares? They will release a game people care about with the same DRM and it'll be cracked anyway.

There are few methods of protection that are truly unbreakable and most involve removing product ownership in a literal sense and delivering the product(usually via stream) to your customer. I mean, the whole industry excuse about DRM for the past two years has been preventing zero day piracy so even the industry assumes that things will be cracked and that it's a matter of time.




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	1.	Aug 24, 10:44	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	nin
	2.	Aug 24, 10:50	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Zandog
	5.	Aug 24, 11:29	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Creston
	7.	Aug 24, 11:36	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	baltar
	9.	Aug 24, 11:41	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Creston
	22.	Aug 24, 13:12	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Mead
	25.	Aug 24, 13:19	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Krovven
	27.	Aug 24, 13:33	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Alamar
	3.	Aug 24, 11:01	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Verno
	15.	Aug 24, 12:45	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Darks
	16.	Aug 24, 12:53	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	baltar
	18.	Aug 24, 12:59	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Tumbler
	17.	Aug 24, 12:54	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Beelzebud
	19.	Aug 24, 13:03	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Darks
	20.	Aug 24, 13:08	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Beelzebud
	24.	Aug 24, 13:18	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Alamar
	4.	Aug 24, 11:22	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Alamar
	6.	Aug 24, 11:34	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Creston
	29.	Aug 24, 13:39	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Ruffiana
	30.	Aug 24, 13:45	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	nin
	43.	Aug 24, 16:43	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Creston
	45.	Aug 24, 19:03	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	^Drag0n^
	8.	Aug 24, 11:36	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Verno
	10.	Aug 24, 11:56	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	zincthallinide
	21.	Aug 24, 13:08	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Satoru
	23.	Aug 24, 13:13	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Verno
	28.	Aug 24, 13:35	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Darks
	38.	Aug 24, 15:39	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	necrosis
	40.	Aug 24, 15:54	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Darks
	11.	Aug 24, 12:04	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Pankin
	12.	Aug 24, 12:21	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Beelzebud
	13.	Aug 24, 12:38	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Darks
	14.	Aug 24, 12:45	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Tumbler
	26.	Aug 24, 13:25	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Verno
	31.	Aug 24, 13:58	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Verno
	32.	Aug 24, 14:06	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Alamar
	34.	Aug 24, 14:42	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	JohnnyRotten
	35.	Aug 24, 15:10	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Darks
	36.	Aug 24, 15:28	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Verno
	37.	Aug 24, 15:39	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Darks
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	41.	Aug 24, 16:14	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Kawlisse
	33.	Aug 24, 14:19	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Tumbler
	42.	Aug 24, 16:21	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	jdreyer
	44.	Aug 24, 18:53	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	^Drag0n^
	46.	Aug 24, 19:08	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	Krovven
	47.	Aug 25, 06:37	Re: Steam From Dust Refunds	InBlack