If you've been keeping up with the news, Ubisoft is still going full speed ahead with this "Always Online DRM". The truly sad thing is that despite it saying this in CAPSLOCKED TEXT in 2 plainly visible places on the store page, AC2 has risen to Number 2 in the Top Sellers on Steam as of this post.
I honestly don't know what to say to that. I especially like the part in the huge text stating that they can terminate the online activation anytime with a 30 day warning. Good luck with that.
On the upside, our buddy LewieP of
SavyGamer fame is
rallying Europe to battle the French publisher/developer. It's a nice angle of attack. No sales and Ubi will scream piracy, huge sales and they smugly announce they were right. Sales that end up being returned, refunded and makes a chunk of their stock get labeled "Used" and resold with a lower price point just
might be the way to get their attention. That's what I hope anyway.
As of now I'm unaware if there's anything similar happening on this side of the Atlantic, but our return policies here aren't nearly as understanding.
We'll keep everyone informed if anything else develops.
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AlabasterSlim Says:
February 23rd 2010 @ 5:30 pm EST
Maybe we can pre-order on Steam and cancel prior to it being released. I don't know when Ubisoft gets their numbers, and it's not like they'll lose physical copies to the used game market, but who knows, it might show up in a chart somewhere.
Only problem is that it doesn't seem like it would be statistically significant. With so many people seemingly pre-ordering the game anyways, what's the point of trying to do this kind of thing?