Monday, February 22, 2010

How I use computer?

Well that took far too long to find out how to make a new post.

Ubisoft's new DRM scheme for upcoming games is the topic for tonight. Really, utter hilarious. What it boils down to, and I saw this as being where this DRM mess was heading all along, is it's like having a Ubisoft representative with you in the house at every moment you are playing one of their games. An uninterrupted internet connection is required, and if something goes wrong with it or a serverside fiasco, the game will boot you out and all your progress since last saved will be lost.

And a $60 price tag on Assassins Creed II. Whatta joke.

We can look at the obvious reasons why this won't work. One, it will be cracked. There will always be cracks, and since it's confirmed there will be an inaccessible by nature save file created on your PC, that inevitably will expedite the process.

Two, I really don't know who they think they're fooling, but really who can see a large PC audience going for this? If anyone was prepared to buy Assassins Creed, they invested alot of time and money into building or buying rig powerful enough to run it. Researching things almost becomes second nature; I can't describe it, but anyone who is the least bit skeptical can see why something like this wouldn't work. Trying to undo years of building the PC as the ultimate open platform won't win them any fans.

Someone at these companies is getting to be quite the slacker. There are many ways to make a successful game on any platform, but when you start ignoring the strenghts of each one, it doesn't look very good. Call it console wars, but any reasonable gamer on a budget has a sense of pride of their platform of choice. Stripping features of a port because of how the original is handled won't look good to that audience.

And face it, through all the "PC is dying" insanity, there are THOUSANDS of excellent titles to be had. Noone is going to settle for a mediocre product , and for what? Assassins Creed was good, and I hear the second is better, but I don't think this was exactly the best vehicle for this feature.

Beyond Good and Evil 2 on the other hand.......could be a problem.

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