splinter cell conviction deluxe edition 50% off for $32.49

recently, it was on steam along with many other splinter cell games as elite echelon bundle for $42ish, but its on ubisoft right now for $32.49 for 48 hours.
doesn't come with the older splinter cell series though.

The Official Ubisoft Online Store - Buy Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction Deluxe Edition PC (Download)

 

Even if this had 90% off, I wouldn't buy it. That DRM is a sale blocker for me no matter what the price.

 

Splinter Cell: DRM - not worth it at any price.

 

just buy it and crack it

 

Doing so still makes a sale which sends out a message that we support their DRM or won't let it stop us from buying their games. This means they are more likely to use the same type of DRM in future titles as well as others potentially using this same DRM as well. Why wouldn't they if they still make sales?

Only option = no sale period.

 

I hear you and i agree about,everyone wants to be like steam and it gets annoying. I can't even play ASC2 because of this stupidity now and the thing is how about people who download a lot huh or have dialup? its unfair.

 

At least on Steam, once you have your download and it is up to date, you can simply set it to play offline. If you could do that with AC2 and SCC then I wouldn't have an issue with them.

 

There is still the issue of there will come a time when you are no longer able to play the game because Steam/Ubinet/whatever DRM servers are permanently offline. Of course you can crack it, since if the servers are gone you won't have access to multiplayer anyways, but you shouldn't be forced to resort to something that's technically illegal in order to stop yourself from having a completely useless game. I still play a few games from the 1990s that the manufacturers have long since stopped supporting, but they work just fine if you install them normally. That can't happen with anything released now, as even the ones with "one time activation" won't work if you ever have to replace your HDD or upgrade Windows and are forced to re-install them.

 

I will buy this when it's in the bargain bin for PS3.

 

I think if steam ever goes offline the world most likely has bigger problems then us not being able to get our games anymore lol.
Steam is so massive it couldn't possibly go down like the old game multiplayer components used to. I mean hell look at battle.net, its still up and running 13 years later.

 

Goldman Sachs and AIG were "so massive they couldn't go down" either...

 

They didnt go down in a true sense tho, they still exist and perform much of the same services they did previously. Granted the government would bail out valve or another software company, but if they were to go "bankrupt" there would be someone big like EA or activision who would love to gobble them up and use their service as their own.

Really the idea that the steam network would be down permanently really implies that the world is either truly past the games in question. Or that the world is in such a state that "gaming" is not important.

And even if steam did disappear tomorrow the devs of those popular games would release patches that would take away the need to phone home for activations. And really the ones that do not get patched can simply be considered abandon-ware (figuratively not literally) and use the pirating methods to get them to work just fine.