From Dust - Coming soon. You play as the God, sandbox game.

Wow I was actually thinking of picking this up.... not now.

 

DRM aids pirating so what is the point in putting it into such a cool looking game.

It was cracked a week ago, so why ruin game sales when it will be cracked either way.

I remember Anno 1404 at release you dont just intend to create a new world, you intend to disconnect at least once an hour. No thank you.

 

One must also consider that a huge number of the pirated figures will in fact be legit customers who purchased wanting to play offline. I have heard many customers say they paid for the game and then immediately went on the hunt for a crack.

 

What's a "huge number"? Ten people? Ten million? Somewhere in between?

I'll settle for ballpark figures and an actual source for that claim. I'm quite sure that most of the pirated downloads are just by people who want something for nothing.

This is not really a solution though since it allows Ubisoft to count the download as a lost sale caused by scary, scary pirates and profit from it. Doing so in effect just ends up being a tacit approval of their unfriendly DRM practices.

 

Apparently UBI are going to release a patch to remove the DRM but say it will take up to two weeks to ensure current saves are not corrupted.

The question is whether people will make a purchase if they remove the DRM considering all of the other issues and the general bad feelings.

 

That's funny that they're worried about corrupting the saves when their cloud saving feature which is a major selling point of Uplay doesn't even work. In the 3 days I played it till I finished it, (great game too if you can overlook the cons) the saves failed to synch every time.

 

Do not remember ever having that issue for some reason

 

If we didn't live in the "Wild West" where the consumer is nobody, Ubisoft would have been fined millions of $$$ for publishing faulty games all the time. Experimenting their products on their customers as some kind of lab animals and charging them money for that.

 

Too bad because the game does sound really fun and the art style is very interesting.

 

According to Steam users, the offline patch has been released for From Dirt now.

 

And Ubisoft should follow-up with a $5 sale just to get the fun spirit back from players who looked away.

 

DRM problem aside, is that game as good as B&W?

 

If you like playing god, I'd imagine it to be a very fun game even if has a lot of glitches.
Maybe like Populous The Beginning?

 

Didn't realize the thread was still alive. Anyways.. at the end, the game was no good for me :3 Not really because of the DRM as I'm always on the internet, just that it doesn't have any REAL sandbox mode

 

i think i saw news that the drm has been removed.
has anyone tried it to confirm that has actually been removed?

 

I have also read about it here. Finally some good news in regard to draconian DRM and blatant lies.

 

Yep the DRM hasn't been patched off in the last patch. Hopefully this means UBI learned something.