Friday 2010-10-29 Dev. update and Discussion

[csThor]

If Ubisoft is indeed the publisher then I'll not buy BoB - unless the russian version doesn't have Ubi's DRM sh*t and I can get my hands on it (and if I can switch it to german or at least english). I am in no way going to endure that cr@ppy POS Ubi uses to punish honest customers.

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by csThor

If Ubisoft is indeed the publisher then I'll not buy BoB - unless the russian version doesn#t have Ubi's DRM sh*t and I can get my hands on it (and if I can switch it to german or at least english). I am in no way going to endure that cr@ppy POS Ubi uses to punish honest customers.

Same here. There's still a chance though that Ubi would ship it without their crappy DRM (like the recently released RUSE). The system doesn't make much sense if it's not used by all versions worldwide in the same way.

Then again, even without the DRM there are still enough reasons not to buy from Ubi...

[SaQSoN]

Originally Posted by domian

UBI as the possible publisher is the beginning of the end of the IL series.

Which (beginning of the end) lasts for almost 10 years now.

[csThor]

Sorry Saqson, but Ubi's policy of alienating customers is not something that's positive. If I may say so - Il-2 was/is successful despite Ubi's involvement, not because of them.

[SaQSoN]

I never was bothered with any copy protection in games, to be honest. So, I don't care about such things. But that's another story.

[csThor]

Well, then you better look into Ubi's latest idea. They force playsers to be online all the time (something distantly related to cloud computing) but can't guarantee working servers to begin with. Not to mention that they put a stamp "Potential software pirate" on each and every user. This is IMO simply unacceptable.

[Freycinet]

Pls go flog that old horse somewhere else....

[150GCT_Veltro]

RoF's protection is ok for me because is not invasive at all. However we dream if we pretend a not antipiracy protection.

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by domian

I like RoF very much and the connection is since 1.012 no problem, because you can play offline without connection.

Sure but the whole point of Ubi's system is not to provide any kind of offline options. Besides ROF still doesn't allow offline campaigns, which happens to be the most important offline game mode.

I don´t know why 1C doesn´t think about direct selling SoW BoB.

I'm sure they do, and with any luck they will. All depends on the contracts though, which we won't be able to look into If we're lucky they are too old to consider digital distribution, and we might get it directly from 1C through Steam (which is as far as I'm willing to go with DRM).