Oh, Ubisoft, you must be so irritated. Gamers clamor for your games on PC, wanting to play amazing titles like the Assassin's Creed series on a prettier system (or at all, for some). Yet when you release the games, you can't help but pile on the anti-piracy measures out of fear of losing millions on a game. Better relations with your customers might help but you ignore them wholeheartedly and ramp up the DRM instead.
In yet another piece of Ubisoft anti-piracy news, reports are starting to come in that Ubisoft's DRM is, shocker, a piece of garbage. Guru3D, a highly respected benchmarking site has been testing Anno 2070, a new game in the vein of Sim City or Tropico, and are reporting a rather odd occurance with the game. When they switch out graphics cards for a new test, the DRM registers that as a new computer and uses one of the three installs that owners of the game get. Since Guru3D tests games on a wide variety of machines, the game quickly refused to allow access and stated that all installs had been used already.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Ubisoft DRM, something like this comes along. It probably isn't anything more than a bug but it certainly won't soften public opinion of them anytime soon. At this point, I'm kinda with Ubisoft on this whole PC thing. If they can't find a better way to make their PC ports, I'd rather they just stop trying. Crappy, DRM-saddled versions of games aren't appealing to anyone.
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