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JBeckman
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Game works fine here, still different servers in different regions and it supposedly doesn't redirect properly which it was said to be capable of doing.
(Not that I've played much lately being busy with other things and having completed the base game but I tested to see if it was down again.)
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 04:22 Post subject: |
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Ubisoft introduced an unnecessary point of vulnerability into your ability to play a game. Their fault.
| Sertorius wrote: | | Just be careful to your ass while surfing on the net and NOTHING will happen to you. |
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 04:25 Post subject: |
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| locke_digitalus wrote: | | Ubisoft introduced an unnecessary point of vulnerability into your ability to play a game. Their fault. |
Yeah, and the ruskie DDoS-ers have no fault, is that what you're saying?
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 04:28 Post subject: |
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They are proving a point. Any idiot that has shelled cash for this stupid DRM now knows not to do it again the next time. In fact, they are doing everyone a service.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 04:32 Post subject: |
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| iNatan wrote: | | They are proving a point. Any idiot that has shelled cash for this stupid DRM now knows not to do it again the next time. In fact, they are doing everyone a service. |
Is that so? What if they simply won't buy Ubisoft games again? If that's the effect, then they committed a very serious criminal act.
You do realize, it's those people "punishing" Ubi, who didn't actually buy the game. They have nothing to win or lose in this battle, in the short term, and they can only lose in the long term.
However they are the direct and single cause of the difficulties those people are experiencing, who knowingly signed up for Ubi's service.
Where do these hacker want to bes have the right to intervene from? Can you answer me that one question?
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 04:40 Post subject: |
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They have the right because they care for the future of PC gaming, and not the egoistical immediate need of "I want to play this now and the hell with future ramifications". 
Also, Ubisoft has a lot to lose, and that's the point. They aren't releasing these games for PC from the goodness of their heart.
 Spoiler: | | iNatan wrote: | | Quote: | As part of their first quarter report, Ubisoft revealed what each platform contributed to their bottom line, as compared to last year. Overall, the Nintendo DS continues to be Ubisoft’s main source of revenue, but the Wii and Xbox 360, compared to last year, also saw strong sales results.
For comparison sake, the company also showed the revenue contribution from each platform from last year’s first quarter.
* DS: 26 percent (down from 37 percent in Q1 08-09)
* PC: 20 percent (up from 14 percent in Q1 08-09)
* PlayStation 2: 1 percent (down from 3 percent in Q1 08-09)
* PlayStation 3: 13 percent (down from 21 percent in Q1 08-09)
* PSP: 4 percent (no change)
* Wii: 20 percent (up from 11 percent in Q1 08-09)
* Xbox 360: 16 percent (up from 9 percent in Q1 08-09)
It’s hard to make any inferences based on the data, because it encompasses a quarter rather than full-year sales. Take the numbers from what they’re worth. |
http://www.endsights.com/2009/07/28/ubisoft-first-quarter-sales-broken-down-by-platform/ |
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Just like with Starforce, once they get hit enough, they will remove this.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 04:50 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 04:51 Post subject: |
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| iNatan wrote: | They have the right because they care for the future of PC gaming, and not the egoistical immediate need of "I want to play this now and the hell with future ramifications".
Also, Ubisoft has a lot to lose, and that's the point. They aren't releasing these games for PC from the goodness of their heart.
| Spoiler: | | iNatan wrote: | | Quote: | As part of their first quarter report, Ubisoft revealed what each platform contributed to their bottom line, as compared to last year. Overall, the Nintendo DS continues to be Ubisoft’s main source of revenue, but the Wii and Xbox 360, compared to last year, also saw strong sales results.
For comparison sake, the company also showed the revenue contribution from each platform from last year’s first quarter.
* DS: 26 percent (down from 37 percent in Q1 08-09)
* PC: 20 percent (up from 14 percent in Q1 08-09)
* PlayStation 2: 1 percent (down from 3 percent in Q1 08-09)
* PlayStation 3: 13 percent (down from 21 percent in Q1 08-09)
* PSP: 4 percent (no change)
* Wii: 20 percent (up from 11 percent in Q1 08-09)
* Xbox 360: 16 percent (up from 9 percent in Q1 08-09)
It’s hard to make any inferences based on the data, because it encompasses a quarter rather than full-year sales. Take the numbers from what they’re worth. |
http://www.endsights.com/2009/07/28/ubisoft-first-quarter-sales-broken-down-by-platform/ |
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Just like with Starforce, once they get hit enough, they will remove this. |
They have the right because they care for the future of PC gaming
Truth be told, I thought you were really smarter than to fall for that one.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 04:56 Post subject: |
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Contrary to you, Ubisoft's future on the PC platform for me is not the future of the platform itself. Not one game in recent years that Ubisoft has made that is worth a purchase. But everyone else is watching. If this is considered a success, it means others will adopt it as well, and we can't have that. If the failure of the DRM also means Ubisoft leaving the PC market for good, by all means, who cares.
But you maybe right about one thing, the ones DDoSing having other intentions. I don't care. I'd take any help I can get ("The enemy of my enemy is my friend"  ).
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 05:11 Post subject: |
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No, actually. I have never cared for Starforce. I even bought Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. I have never had problems, with it, and it has always worked on my drives. More importantly, even with Starforce, I still owned the product, and could run it whenever I want, wherever I want.
You bla bla bla all you want, but I ask yet again. Avatar was not cracked until months later. So? Did it sell well? No.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 05:53 Post subject: |
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DABhandUK. I love your pseudorationalism, it brings me back to when I was a child too.
If you can't afford a book, then read wiki. kthx, come back when you are out of grade school and are mature enough to talk with others.
Also, your analogies need help. Maybe if you shoot yourself in the face we will blame Smith & Wesson.
Your views are the minority here. You can voice them, but don't get in everyone's faces and be condescending. No one cares about your moral high ground, so get off your high horse and READ A BOOK
Yes DDoS is a problem, but it's not insurmountable. You can block packets inexpensively, and good security protocols for their servers should make it so they are secure on a TCP channel. If they are using UDP, then they have already lost
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 05:57 Post subject: |
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Is this the thread where I bitch about the DRM?
Been playing my legit copy and it keeps bugging out on me. Quests messing up, crucial items disappearing, etc... It has made my main save impossible to progress. Tried to start over and that got bugged too. I am going to go ahead and blame the DRM for this.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 06:33 Post subject: |
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sueil, will you be buying another game with this DRM?
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 06:42 Post subject: |
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| armedmonkey wrote: | DABhandUK. I love your pseudorationalism, it brings me back to when I was a child too.
If you can't afford a book, then read wiki. kthx, come back when you are out of grade school and are mature enough to talk with others.
Also, your analogies need help. Maybe if you shoot yourself in the face we will blame Smith & Wesson.
Your views are the minority here. You can voice them, but don't get in everyone's faces and be condescending. No one cares about your moral high ground, so get off your high horse and READ A BOOK
Yes DDoS is a problem, but it's not insurmountable. You can block packets inexpensively, and good security protocols for their servers should make it so they are secure on a TCP channel. If they are using UDP, then they have already lost |
Another person who hasnt checked on me and used the Read the Book crap.
You will realise if you check my name even here on this site in terms of nfo's that I know a fair bit more than probably 98% here. Do some research.
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 06:47 Post subject: |
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Did you patch the game Suel? also did you disable online storage of save files as that might cause issues if the connection becomes unstable, though it should matter very little as the savefiles are only a few KB.
(It does store a lot of temp files with the Ubi launcher however so I always clean that crap away, had about 100MB after a week of playing when I first discovered them.)
EDIT: To be clear you can disable online save file storage but they must still be verified server side, won't be transfered there though so it should be playable unless they somehow get corrupted.
(And they shouldn't as it saves so often and replaces them frequently though it's not impossible for it to happen it would seem based on your post, perhaps delete the entire profile if you already had to start over.)
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 06:47 Post subject: |
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| iNatan wrote: | | sueil, will you be buying another game with this DRM? |
That is a big no.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 06:48 Post subject: |
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| JBeckman wrote: | Did you patch the game Suel? also did you disable online storage of save files as that might cause issues if the connection becomes unstable, though it should matter very little as the savefiles are only a few KB.
(It does store a lot of temp files with the Ubi launcher however so I always clean that crap away, had about 100MB after a week of playing when I first discovered them.) |
Bought it on steam so it should be auto patched. How do I disable online storage of saves?
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JBeckman
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 06:51 Post subject: |
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| sueil wrote: | | iNatan wrote: | | sueil, will you be buying another game with this DRM? |
That is a big no. |
Then the DDoS attacks have achieved their goals. Unfortunately on your back. :\ |
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 06:55 Post subject: |
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Also if you don't want to start over here's my current savegame, you can just replay the chapter you were at or just explore the game, for non legit edition this might allow exploration of Florence until the next load screen appears, I could do a venice save version or similar as well if wanted, there's about two major cities and two smaller ones with a bit of countryside in between and your own mansion area.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tgc1mq
This also has the Altair DLC outfit and the Auditore family tomb unlocked but those might be relocked again if those aren't acquired.
(Complete the game or parts of it to earn uPoints, redeem them via uPlay for extras, Id' recommend only the Altair outfit and Auditore tomb as the rest are a waste of points, maybe the third knife belt upgrade as well.)
EDIT: Ah right, C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\storage\"ProfileID"\ is where it goes normally, 3 or 4 folder depends on your game order of what you own, I think AC2 uses "4" in general however.
(1 for splinter cell, 2 for settlers, 3 for silent hunter and 4 for creed maybe?)
EDIT: Forli.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0rqtsi
EDIT: Venetia.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jflk96
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 08:05 Post subject: |
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How do I load an earlier sequence? I went into the DNA screen and found where I need to be but it doesn't give an option to load it.
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 08:12 Post subject: |
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I'll take a look, it should be doable as it was mentioned in a loading screen.
EDIT: For the first savegame however remember to press escape and abort the current memory as it autosaved during a assassination mission.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 08:16 Post subject: |
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Yeah I aborted it and it still doesn't give me an option to load it.
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 08:18 Post subject: |
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Damn, I just checked and it only allows replay of secondary memories like templar bases or side objectives, odd but I can't find a way to load the so called primary memories again, guess the savegame isn't useful due to this.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 08:22 Post subject: |
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Savegames:
2 - SC Conviction
3 - SH 5
4 - AC 2
8 - Settlers 7
12 - RUSE
14 - Settlers 7 (Beta )
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 08:33 Post subject: |
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| JBeckman wrote: | | Damn, I just checked and it only allows replay of secondary memories like templar bases or side objectives, odd but I can't find a way to load the so called primary memories again, guess the savegame isn't useful due to this. |
Wonder if the console version was like this. I wouldn't put it pass them to do this to screw pirates.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 09:39 Post subject: |
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It's exactly the same on the consoles. That was one of the few complaints about the game when it originally came out.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Mar 2010 10:36 Post subject: |
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| Radicalus wrote: | | iNatan wrote: | | They are proving a point. Any idiot that has shelled cash for this stupid DRM now knows not to do it again the next time. In fact, they are doing everyone a service. |
Is that so? What if they simply won't buy Ubisoft games again? If that's the effect, then they committed a very serious criminal act.
You do realize, it's those people "punishing" Ubi, who didn't actually buy the game. They have nothing to win or lose in this battle, in the short term, and they can only lose in the long term.
However they are the direct and single cause of the difficulties those people are experiencing, who knowingly signed up for Ubi's service.
Where do these hacker want to bes have the right to intervene from? Can you answer me that one question? |
Amazing to what lengths people will go to justify this DRM.
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