Positive or negative, slap DRM in the headline and expect a flood of comments.
The response to From Dust's DRM, however, has been exceptionally negative, fueled by Ubisoft's poor communication of what kind of DRM would be included in the PC version of Eric Chahi's latest. Ubisoft suggested there would be no DRM, but when the game arrived, there actually was DRM, asking players to be online to start the game.
Ubisoft's been buried in criticism ever since (including from myself), and it appears the publisher is cutting its losses.
"We recognize that one of our posts in the From Dust forum regarding the need for authentication in the game was not clear," said Ubisoft forum manager bukowski113 on the company's boards.
To try and make things right (or at least better?), Ubisoft is working on a patch for the PC version, scheduled to be released in about two weeks.
"This development time is required as we are working to ensure that those who have already started the game, and who’s progress is currently saved on our servers, will receive and save their game information locally," continued the post.
After the patch is installed, players will apparently be able to play offline--no questions.
"We sincerely apologize for the misunderstanding," reads the post.
If players will still be there two weeks from now, however, remains to be seen.
Now I might actually pick it up.
"Ubisoft promises a patch is coming to make the game completely playable online."
Isn't that the problem?
This proves that there is such a thing as bad publicity :)
Damage done, get your head out of your ass Ubi.
Hopefully they'll finish the fix sooner than planned.
Misunderstanding my bollocks... Ubi is trying to recoup from their total scew up >:(
Well....its still a shitty port but...I really wanna play the damn game so ill take their little gesture, don't pull this again Ubi I love Assassin's Creed but you've done your dance and jig on DRM one to many times.
Wow...wow. Laughable, LAUGHABLE.
I'd buy it if this all pans out. The DRM misshap was pretty shitty of them but can't say I was surprised.
This should be a lesson to all you saying pirating is the answer. No it's not, not buying the game and telling the publisher where they went wrong is the answer. Affect their sales, then you'll make them care.
I think the sub header is supposed to say offline not online...that's confusing.
For more general 'always be on the internet' DRM, that's slightly different question. I either just won't buy it if there's not a good reason for them to do it (in terms of game mechanics) or I will if they do (preventing the huuuge amount of duping and all round cheating Diablo 2 suffered in Diablo3). DRM has its place but it has to be justified and not lied bout. Ubisoft did not justify it for From Dust and they also lied. Besides all this, From Dust is also, sadly, a shoddy port on PC :(
Good job Ubisoft, fuck you and stuff, you suck boo. I'm never playing your games again, this shit is retarded. I'm gonna go play better games while I wait for Assassin's Creed: Revelations.,. hold on wait a minute /turns off idiot mode
People crying are the funniest people ever, keeps me entertained :D