Assasin's Creed 2 PC DRM

[1000possibleclaws]

Well it's been out since March 3, and still no cracked scene release. How long do you guys think it'll take before someone cracks it? Or has Ubisoft created a DRM that will kill off piracy of their games?

[anon]

Or has Ubisoft created a DRM that will kill off piracy of their games?

There is no such thing.

[antrax34130]

check public forum like http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtop...640&start=3150

[Cabalo]

Well it's been out since March 3, and still no cracked scene release. How long do you guys think it'll take before someone cracks it? Or has Ubisoft created a DRM that will kill off piracy of their games?

Starforce was advertised as impossible to crack, also made popular with ubisoft releases, and it was cracked and made obsolete.
Ubisoft never said this their new DRM scheme was unbreakable, but basically it's like what happens with steam, when you must connect yourself to the servers periodically to check if your software is genuine.

[7th]

Yep, sooner or later some group will end up braking it... that's their hobby I think =]

[anon]

Ubisoft never said this their new DRM scheme was unbreakable, but basically it's like what happens with steam, when you must connect yourself to the servers periodically to check if your software is genuine.

And look at what happened to Steam, nowadays we have cracks that patch it directly into memory. You can't play on legit servers using those and probably never will be able to, but there's a huge network of cracked ones, and it's easy to create your own without any file patching involved as well.

[zonta]

Ubi win end of story.

[filenetworks]

Considering the fact that there are already partially working cracks for this protection (Silent Hunter 5), I guess it would be cracked pretty soon.
Hope it doesn't turn out to be another StarForce (which held on for about 420 days, until RELOADED released this)

[2slick4u]

In next 3 or 4 weeks should be ready

[1000possibleclaws]

From what I understand key parts of the game's logic are run server side so crackers would have to do some reverse engineering, but with no access to those parts of the code.

Even if it does get cracked eventually (fingers crossed), it's been out for over 2 weeks. Don't know about sales, but now the DRM has cut out the 'convenience' excuse of piracy, which in my opinion is a significant reason why North American's steal games in the first place. That must a record for a mainstream game not getting cracked from the scene? If it does get cracked, will the scene groups be able to crack the next Ubisoft-DRM'd game faster? Or would it just be another huge task for those groups for the next game.


Hopefully the purchasing population's public backlash against this DRM will be it's demise. Something like 5% of players are having problems because of the DRM.

In next 3 or 4 weeks should be ready

A month and a half after release date? If so I think it's safe to say Ubisoft has won a huge DRM/piracy battle. That kind of success must be unprecedented in a single player game, Shirley