Splinter Cell: Conviction Confirmed to Have New Ubisoft DRM

It's about time for the cheep rip off people to go out and buy the game just like the rest of us do it takes a lot of money to make a game some one has to put the money up to pay the game makers and the rent for them to have a place to work and all the time they put in to making the game just think about it I am thank full that are doing this because at some point when they make the right amount of money off of a game the price may go down some day or stay at the price they are at now for some time and not go up

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thing is this DRM crap is also being put to a serious test and since its kinda the first of its kind, will take a little time to be broken... but even then... it IS gonna be broken at some point... Ubi can try keep holding themselves in their chairs tight until then...

Well along with assassins creed 2, thats $120 ubisoft wont be getting from me.

Oh yeah, Ubisoft dont need pirates to bring down the pc game division, they are doing a terrific job alone !

No more Ubi games for me !!

i think, it would be no loose if big company (like ubysoft or EA) leave market. they degrade the market. their games sucks, but they push it through advertisements. if small company make something interesting, this big companys buy their projects and degradate it. if someone make somethig interesting people give their money. but not for same shit like every time. only because new graphics... sorry for my english;)

i think, it would be no loose if big company (like ubysoft or EA) leave market. they degrade the market. their games sucks, but they push it through advertisements. if small company make something interesting, this big companys buy their projects and degradate it. if someone make somethig interesting people give their money. but not for same shit like every time. only because new graphics... sorry for my english;)

Its all about the money, no matter the player comments, Ubisoft is just trying to get more money. The quality of the game has much lower priority of course. I just hope the sheeps who buy their games punish them properly this time, not by downloading but completely ignoring their titles.

so true my friend.

After reading people's comments I can see there are two sides. People happy with it and people unhappy with it. Now when someone's unhappy people will say that they buy pirated version. Basically one thing isn't being seen here. Piracy began in countries where these games aren't distributed. And etern if genuine copies are imported, they cost too much to be bought. Another problem is that some countries don't have fast or stable internet.

Heh, so if my internet goes out for a week because of the latest and greatest mother nature decided to cook up or because no one's bothered to move a fallen tree off of a power line and fix it, I'll be completely unable to play a game containing this DRM? Hell, I'd hold off on buying the product until it gets cracked in that case. Ubisoft would have to consider themselves lucky if I even bother to obtain the game legitimately. DRM like this pushes me more towards the piracy camp, and exclusive pre-order bonuses--that aren't overly stupid--force me to pirate that unobtainable content if possible.

Hell, if they don't even do a proper port of their game in the first place it'll feel like a major insult and I'll just outright stop supporting ANY of their products.

Call me in as a new pirate games' user.
These anti-piracy measures are running out of hand, they are much bigger pest than piracy itself, and besides if games these don't sell well, it's because the internet, people are able to spread how crap a game is these days. They should live with it and give game fun a higher rank than irritating the users.

Ubisoft will never get one cent from me with that Nazi DRM bs.

They got money from me in the past - never again.

Congrats Ubisoft,

You're doing extremely well in pushing people into piracy.
I won't buy this never stopping nagware, that's for sure !

So now the question is, who's worse: Ubisoft or Activision?

ubisoft is going to lose big times..i dont know if they dont get enuf profit or not..um sure they do..all of their employees may be living in penthouses and condos..so what more do they want? the country um in, they wont probably market the game in next 10 years..but thanks to the pirates, i have been able to play some decent games by downloading..but it seems those days are over now..ubisoft bye bye (unless cracked versions get released)..

This is truly BS! They are making other game companies think that PC gaming is dying after releasing their * sales for Assassin's Creed 2 on the PC. A lot of companies are going to follow these bastards and PC gaming will eventually die. This is truly sad, you EFFING Ubisoft idiots!

I don't pirate games and i don't download pirated games, and although I always make sure I purchase original games-- I will NEVER EVER purchase a Ubisoft title again!

You are taking your crap out on your fans for what you have against pirates, you fools! We don't deserve this!

Good bye, you fools - to each and everyone working at Ubisoft.... even the damn janitors!

Well, I agree with the anti-piracy deal. But what about those who can't afford a connection to the internet. Or people who do not have access to the internet because of their location. The game should only have to be authenticated once. Regardless there has to be a better solution than you can ONLY play while connected to the internet. These games aren't even MMO games. And if you loose your connection you loose your progress? That's retarded. They think they will be saving money but they just lost a ton of consumers. They should go ahead and enact a refund deal if they put this into play at least.

I had preordered this game... me and my friends had great plans... but the moment I saw this we all cancelled our pre-orders. I mean wtf are they thinking! Everytime a publisher comes out with this kinda s*** the game ALWAYS GETS PIRATED, and the only people suffering from the DRM in the long run is the PAYING customers. Congratulations! You just costed RELOADED, RAZOR1911 etc etc etc another what? afternoon of work? And in the process you just screwed over... I have no idea how many people (not gonna google statistics now).

Besides, it's another cheap ass PC prot, neither supporting DX11 nor pumping up the visual eyecandy that a PC can handle.

O! And if you wanna lower the rate of piracy... SELL THE DARN THING THROUGH STEAM! I mean sure, people can still pirate it, but will suffer horribly from the lack of multiplayer. This new DRM will get cracked in less than a week, and then me and my friends will sit there laughing on a virtual LAN. Good riddance Ubislut!

Well, that's another lost sale.

You won't, but I hope you go out of business, Ubisoft.

Sigh. Both AC II and this game looked good. And the sad part is that I would have payed for them if they didn't have this draconian DRM. I just hope they realized that their crap sales aren't because of piracy, it's because people like us aren't willing to pay them to rape the PC gaming market. Not to mention, for some reason, they had the audacity to release the PC version of AC II months later than the console version for the same price as the console version when it was released! $60??? For an "old" game??? Not to mention PC games are cheaper because the companies don't need to pay licensing fees. And not to mention their little stunt with Prince of Persia 4. "No DLC for PC for business reasons." Well, for MY business reasons, I'll be not buying any more of your half-ass ported games 4 months later for $60. You have disappointed me Ubi, and I thought you were the ones with at least some honor left.

What's funny is a paltry month later and its already been cracked.

Well good job Ubisoft it was cracked anyways and no one bought your game in fact you turned off most consumers any pirates who would have bought the game after they tested it and it got your site hacked, your constantly under d-dos attacks on your servers. I hope you are proud of the epic fail you caused

I'm buying it. Being a software coder and having people crack my own apps, I can understand their stance on the matter. Those of you moaning about DRM, quit torrenting our crap for a couple years and we'll loosen up.

Fun fact; Everyone that posted here b*tching about the DRM affecting them is on the net. I don't see what your problem with it is.

(I don't like the method of DRM that they chose, but hey, STEAM pretty much did the same thing, they just didn't hide it, it's their launcher. They'll do whatever they need to do to protect -THEIR PROPERTY-. I don't see you letting hobos into your fridge just because putting a lock on the door is inconvenient.)

Not everyone has a constant connection to the internet, even if they posted here it still doesn't prove that their connection is constant you moron, you call yourself a coder yet you can't even balance out that simple logic.

How is this kind of DRM helping the solution? They are shooting themselves in the foot, people who usually pirate games are NEVER going to buy this game, and now you discourage yet MORE people that usually buys games (like me) from every thinking of buying it.

I mean come on, it's a single player game, I love playing them on the run with my laptop, even if I had wi-fi, it would be unstable making this new "DRM". The best new DRM? God this would destroy PC Gaming if it ever expands. What are you talking about Steam? I can play in offline mode just fine.

i'm glad you have unlimited constant connection to the internet to do your work. however since you don't think about other countries, i'll tell you something. some countries, like Australia, have a bandwidth limit/month . unnecessary bandwidth usage just to play a single player game i would have purchased is ridiculous. also your 'fun fact' statement is just too funny. there are many ways to go on the net, however keeping a constant connection is a different story. ever heard of the going on the net through a cellphone? ever heard of just browsing on a wifi area with a laptop? etc.... so open your eyes to the world and not just your lonely life.

Oddly enough, it's already been cracked. As a user who supported the game market with my dollar (about fifteen dollars too much, actually), but I also had no shame downloading and testing the necessary cracks in order to defeat Ubi's draconian DRM. The problem here is that piracy is remaining EXACTLY THE SAME, but those of us with "always on" internet connections that occasionally crap out because ISPs suck have to deal with this crap too, which is just wrong.

Personally I disagree with piracy however there is no way that I will buy this game.
Now I would have if there was no DRM (or at least less intrusive DRM - CD checking, etc), but with this - I will not be able to play it how I want, i.e. when travelling, in free time at college and when my internet connection at home is down.
Therefore I will pirate it. Simple as that.
Ubisoft have just turned one customer into a pirate by introducing this DRM, way to go. I'm sure that many will be the same.
My friend, as it happens, is considering pirating BioShock 2 - which he paid for and owns - so he can play without the internet connection DRM. He shouldn't have to do that.

DRM is the cancer killing games. Not piracy.

*Sigh*
Its sad...
they basically just lost alot of money from the people that actually liked their games by their own hands...
what abunch of idiots -_-
Piracy is gonna happen more now because Ubi is getting nervous and think their customers are not loyal too them...
Well they aren't anymore nice job, I was gonna buy Splinter Cell: Conviction but now that they don't appreciate their loyal customers I find that their just abunch of children that think this will stop a problem that has been annoying not only us but alot of the companys...
All I can say is.... time to stop buying their games...


PS: Don't buy EA or Ubisoft games sense they care more bout money (Even though they are losing more with this stick they jammed in our A$$es)then the people that actually buy their games...

As many ppl. said they're pushing people to get pirated copies of the games, I already bought this one before I found out about this DRM, so as far as this one, it's done, but this is the same reason why I never bought Bioshock 1 or 2, they're basically renting you the game, and after a few installs you're screwed.
I already cancelled my pre-order of the new ghost recon, I hope by that time they realize what they're doing is BS.

me and my friends just bought the yesterday 7/may/2010 and our game is crashing due to internet connection!
we waited a year and half for this to release ON PC and UAE.. now all i can do is watch sam fisher bonus cd, imagine how cool the game is and shagg to it!
Thanks a lot UBI hope the next time u make a anti-piracy it will be playable by the genuine pc gamers!
this just sucks coz i just wasted AED 180 and waited for 1 and half year for this.!!

I got the pirated version of Conviction two days after the official release, and i finished it a few days ago....so Ubisoft can go to hell with it's useless DRM. I also finished the pirated versions of AC2 and Settlers 7.

Hi I'm zane I'm using my phone to be able too send this message. This DRM is really not making it easy for me I bought the game and now I need too connect my phone to the internet. Its really expensive and I'm not a rich person. Oh and I know this isn't the right place too ask this but isn't there a place I can at least get a patch 4 the game ?

I just bought the game and i am having serious lag and reconnecting to the server.I do not have superspeed internet connec tionj.so this makes it almost impossible to play even at singel player..no more permanent internet connection games for me.Put the game on a usb qdrive or memory card.

esta bueno el juego alguien quiere jugar

Piracy is ruining gaming? DRM causes Piracy.... I am not buying Conviction until they remove the DRM. I have a horrible internet connection where a 20MB file will take 5 hours to download.

I've always been a great fan of the Splinter Cell Series. This time, bought Splinter Cell Conviction and wow, DRM really sucks. I mean, The game worked for a couple of days and then it would never work again no matter how many times i re installed it, it wouldn't load anymore...then your stupid customer support sent me to a German Customber Support group....when my entire email was in ENGLISH !!! and you didn't even answer my question...all you asked me was to check my internet connection...um...DUMBASSES how did I WRITE YOU if i DID NOT have internet ????? Ubisoft you have really disappointed me this time after all your years of great games you really screwed it up this time and now I have a game that I cannot play and PAID FOR IT !!! I will be writing an article to the world about this...because this is shameful. I understand your efforts but the PAYING CUSTOMER is the ones getting SCREWED with this DRM !!!

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