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Comment Sympathy (Score 1) 430

I sympathize for the people who bought this without knowing about the DRM, and hope they hold it against Ubisoft only and not PC Games in general. I have no sympathy for the people who knew about it and bought it anyway.

Submission + - Ubisoft DRM problems remain unsolved (ubi.com) 1

ocean_soul writes: "More than three weeks after the release of The Settlers 7, with the controversial "always on-line" DRM, a lot of people still can't connect to Ubisoft's DRM servers. The forum threads where people can post if they are unable to connect keeps growing daily. The reason for the lack of fixes or responses from support seems to be that the people responsible were on vacation during the Easter holiday, despite the promis of 24/7 monitoring of the servers. The moral of this story seems to be that it is a bad idea to buy a game just before a major holiday. Something to keep in mind for Christmas shopping..."

Comment Nope (Score 1) 1027

I disagree, this DRM will not slow hackers down by more than a day or 2. Additionally, you're going to get a MASSIVE loss of sales due to this. All in all the pirated version is FAR better. /Personally I don't really care about ACII. Also for every new DRM it takes a little longer to break, then every time thereafter is shorter (see Securom)

Comment Let this be a lesson to you (Score 1) 570

Use long passwords for encryption (minimum 10 chars, preferably 20). Use upper-case, lower-case, numbers, and symbols. Do NOT use the password anywhere else or write it down. Sorry, but you're going to have to commit it to memory. Do not use windows built in encryption or any retail encryption schemes. Use open source. Truecrypt is not open source, but people use it anyway, so read up first before you decide.

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