Ubisoft's new deal, for new games. Players must be connected to play offline...

[flyingbullseye]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

yet there is always some braying jackass that somehow gets a good job that is too far beyond the jackass's ability to be able to figure it out before it's too late.

Yea, they're called management.

I fail to believe that this will stop piracy if said game is popular enough. All you need is some irritated customer to upload a crack and boom problem fixed. ROF has this, good for it. SOW will surpass its sales quite quick increasing the possibility of a crack. Unless things have changed OM said they have nothing to do with UBI anymore and doesn't like the online only so we should be good anyway.

Flyingbullseye

[Qpassa]

oh shi*

[csThor]

Bye bye Ubisoft. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out.

Im certain that ubi are not involved with SOW anymore so i dont think this will effect it.

[Letum]

Thank goodness 1C got away in time.

[HFC_Dolphin]

Well, this limitation is still enforced with some code, so... guess what will happen.

In any case, all this piracy talk is repetitive and gets to one conclusion: People pirate only what they wouldn't buy in any case.

Proof is in everyone's home, where you can see carefully stored copies of IL-2 (or other fabulous music/games/etc.) and numerous cd/dvd copies of X-silly product being torn apart by kids, as no one cares to protect them.

[TheGrunch]

As I said on the Ubi forum...great, now I can get booted from an OFFLINE game when my wireless connection goes down. Cheers Ubisoft, that's my favourite part of gaming.

[Avimimus]

This may be fine for the average game - but it will kill the sim industry. We rely on having stable installs without automatic patching (so that we can customise the install carefully), and the community relies on having new people be able to buy second-hand copies of games often ten years after they ceased being sold by the original distributor.

It is potentially almost as much of a disaster as the EA debacle (which almost killed the genre and took out 75% of flightsim studios).

This is one more case of the high-development cost, large studio, low replay value, consol style game industry's philosophy being misapplied by management.

This will also make it impossible to play using offline (stable) machines or in areas where dial-up connections are the only ones available.

If need be I'll forgo SoW and just send Oleg's team a cheque to show my support. I may as well not enjoy the sim if the industry is doomed anyway!

Hysterically,

-Avimimus