Ubisoft Changes Anno 2070 DRM

Guru3D has a follow-up to the recent incident where they reported problems creating a performance review for Anno 2070 because the DRM in the strategy sequel was triggered by them changing graphics cards in their test rig. In spite of a report where Ubisoft claimed this was working "as intended," the latest news is this aspect of the game's copy protection is now being dropped. Here's word they got from the developers at Blue Byte:
Just wanted to let you know, that we now remove the graphics hardware from the hash used to identify the PC. That means everyone should now be able to switch the GFX as many times as he/she wants.
Incidently, that Anno 2070 VGA Graphics performance review is now complete.
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Darks wrote on Jan 20, 2012, 14:07:
My question to all of this would be why did it take a review site to complain and threaten to never again review one of their games to get their point across and get a reaction out of Ubishit. Why are our concerns and thoughts an afterthought and not taken seriously. That is what bothers me about this.

It’s like we are an afterthought and our comments and concerns are not taken seriously.
Why yes, it IS kinda like that. I wonder why.

Incidentally, had ubisoft had decent customer service and responded to them properly on the initial contact requesting a reset, then none of this would have blown up, even though the DRM has limited activations. So its not just a failure of the DRM, its a failure of customer service.

That leads me to expect that if I ever had to call ubisoft about a DRM problem, the response would be "screw you, buy the game again suckah."
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