As I read more about this it seems what is speculated they are doing is to hold part/most of the game on their servers. I guess they figure it's uncrackable because vital parts of the game are never residing on your local PC. I'm not sure cause I am not a coder/hacker in any way, but I would think if it still has to pass through your RAM someone will find a way to "catch" it and put it back together for use without internet or as a lot of cases have shown it will get leaked in whole and still be available without the BS.

Of course maybe one of the best things that could happen would be for the game not to get cracked and then still have subpar sales due to their BS. Then we'd see what lame excuse they come up since they couldn't blame piracy. I still doubt their stubborness would allow them to admit the lack of sales is their own stupidity though.

And the predictable end to Ubisoft's brilliant DRM scheme.

http://www.infoaddict.com/ubisofts-new-drm-cracked-in-under-25-hours

So your DRM didn't stop the pirates, and you're going to lose tons of sales from legitimate customers with this draconion DRM scheme.  Don't let the door hit you on the way out of the PC game industry Ubisoft.

If thats true (I don't see why it wouldn't be - however much ubisoft wants to delude themselves as they chug back thier silly wine) thats utterly halrious.

I mean how much do you think they spent setting up this DRM scheme? (Possibly not much by the sounds of how crap it is).

Oops. DRM servers crash, Assassins Creed 2 is totally unplayable for paying customers.  I've heard the cracked version is working fine.

This proves just how wrongheaded these schemes are. It's taking the "legitimte version is inferior to the stolen one" to the extreme, in that it flat out doesn't work.

I take it you didn't buy it then?

And the news about the DRM servers is both funny and alarming. I have to use that DRM! I play games, that's what I chose to do when I picked my class. I can't miss out on AC2...

Sure you can. It's just a game, there are lots of others to spend your money on instead. Buying AC2 just supports this idiotic scheme of Ubisofts.

Vote with your wallet, it's more effective then angry forum posts.

Requiring a constant connection opens the door to ByteShield-style technology that, while it will certainly be cracked eventually, would be much more annoying and tedious to crack than traditional DRM.  I have no idea whether Ubi employed this type of protection, but if they did, their statement that the posted cracks are incomplete is likely correct.  Of course the game will be cracked for real soon enough, but release-day cracks seem unlikely.

But what we've learned from this is that even effective DRM has a big downside - clown A puts a file on a torrent site claiming it's a crack, clown B sees the file, probably doesn't even download it, but goes around posting that there's a crack, and everyone believes it, because it's a plausible claim.  So now, potential customers think they would be paying for a product that's inferior to the one pirates can get for free, which is pretty disgusting, and they reasonably choose to spend their money elsewhere.

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/49438

Another lost sale. I was thinking about buying Silent Hunter 5... But after hearing about this new DRM, now I won't be.

I tend to agree.  If Ubisoft really wanted out of the PC market, they'd just get out of the market.  No need to stabotage yourself so you have poor sales numbers to justify it.  My theory on this is that it's an expirement like when Microsoft tried to release Vista-only games and tried to charge PC games for Windows Live Gold.  Ubisoft probably wants to see if people will put up with this new DRM, and how badly it will affect sales.  If the loss in sales are minor, you will see more of this from more companies.  If they take a massive hit in sales, they will have no choice but to call it off.

That article makes it sound like voting with your wallet here is still a loss for the PC community.  Voting against such horrendous DRM is not a loss for anyone except Ubisoft; and nobody will shed a tear for them.  Even the console community isn't laughing at this, as they know it's only a matter of time before publishers start trying it with them.  360 and Wii game piracy is far more severe than the media would have you believe.

Actually it is. If sales arn't good enoug they simply wont be making a PC version of Assassins Creed ever again. So its "Buy it and prove that customers are okay with DRM" or "Don't buy it and never have the option of playing another one again".

You can also "Pirate it and never have the option of playing another one while also prove Ubisoft to be right" - thats not an option for me for several reasons.

Apologies if I am assuming wrongly but you sound like someone who doesn't understand the industry.  I am in a similar industry and I wish it was as simple as an experiment.  It's not, it's people in power, who don't understand their customers or the product who make bad decisions because they think it will help a perceived problem.  It's as simple as that.

They make them decisions (the decision to go with this kind of DRM) based on advertising literature from the people who make the DRM, scare mongering and banging on about how much they lose to piracy and how much they will gain with this kind of licensing.  The people making these decisions have been put in the place of power because of their so called managerial/marketing skills, the company has got so big that the top end is totally detached and they don't listen to the guys below them because they are the decision makers and they obviously know best(!)  These guys work only towards their bonus next Christmas.  He will make all these so called improvements and then use them to get the biggest bonus he can and by the time the shit hits the fan or someone has worked out what has gone wrong the person who made the decision has side stepped in to a different job, hood winking another set of people that he is a star player.

There is no way that someone would make an experiment that could negatively effect sales and be perceived to be the problem, it would affect share prices and more importantly would affect their bonuses.

Umm, do point out where I actually said Spore was NOT a financial success? I am talking about DRM here and the reception of DRM. You are reading into my posts what you want to read, not what I wrote.